Axa Sa Ord (AXAHF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.558 Good afternoon and welcome to AXA's full year 2024 results presentation. 00:00:05.558 -- 00:00:10.985 The results will be presented today by our Group CEO, Thomas Boubel, Group Deputy CEO, 00:00:10.985 -- 00:00:15.310 Frederic de Courtois, and Group CFO, Avant de Mainel. 00:00:15.310 -- 00:00:20.737 For the Q&A session, we will also have Scott Gunter, CEO of AXA Excel, Guillaume Bory, 00:00:20.737 -- 00:00:24.501 CEO of AXA France, and Patrick Cohen, CEO of AXA Europe. 00:00:24.501 -- 00:00:28.303 With this, I turn it to Thomas for the results. 00:00:32.633 -- 00:00:35.539 Thank you, Anu, and good afternoon to all of you. 00:00:35.539 -- 00:00:41.571 Very happy to see you in London here and to present to you as my colleagues 00:00:41.571 -- 00:00:46.673 a good first year of our three-year plan, Unlock the Future. 00:00:46.673 -- 00:00:51.960 When you look at the key highlights, you see that the business is 00:00:51.960 -- 00:00:57.027 in very good shape. We have achieved an 8% growth on revenue 00:00:57.027 -- 00:01:02.133 across all lines of business, across all geographies, and this has 00:01:02.133 -- 00:01:07.460 also translated into an 8% underlying earnings per share growth, which 00:01:07.460 -- 00:01:11.986 is, as you know, at the top end of our range of this plan. 00:01:11.986 -- 00:01:16.736 Very importantly, the solvency is 216%, so 00:01:16.736 -- 00:01:21.827 a very solid balance sheet, a strong capital position, which 00:01:21.827 -- 00:01:27.198 has led the board to decide that the delivery for shareholders 00:01:27.198 -- 00:01:32.727 based on these results is very positive. The dividend per share will increase by 9%, 00:01:32.727 -- 00:01:37.773 which also is a clear indication of the confidence we have in the 00:0...