Aegon Limited (AEG) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Aegon's First Half twenty twenty six Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker, Yves Cormier, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you, operator. Welcome to this conference call on Aegon's first half year twenty twenty six results. My name is Yves Cornet, Head of Investor Relations. And joining me today to take you through our performance and progress are Aegon's CEO, Lars Frieser and CFO, Duncan Russell. Before we start, I would like to ask you to review our disclaimer on forward looking statements, which you can find at the end of the presentation. And with that, I would like to give the floor to Lars. Thanks, Yves, and thank you all for joining today's call. I will start by running you through our strategic developments and commercial performance in the first half of twenty twenty six before Duncan will go through our results in more detail. We delivered strong commercial growth and robust financial results in the first half of twenty twenty six. Our operating results increased to EUR804 million supported by strong commercial momentum and favorable financial markets. Operating capital generation increased year over year to €416,000,000 from business growth and improved claims experience. Transamerica delivered excellent growth in new life sales. World Financial Group continued to grow and perform and written sales in the retirement plans remained strong. Asset Management had third party flows positive, third party net flows in our international businesses contribu...