Swiss Life boosts dividend, starts share buyback
Reuters
Published Feb 28, 2020 06:52
Swiss Life boosts dividend, starts share buyback
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss Life (S:SLHN) proposed increasing its dividend by more than a fifth to 20 Swiss francs a share and unveiled on Friday a share buyback worth up to 400 million Swiss francs (£315 million) as it reported a 12% rise in 2019 net profit.
Fee income rose 16% in local currency last year, helping power the rise in net profit to 1.2 billion Swiss francs.
Swiss Life Asset Managers posted net new assets of 8.92 billion in its third-party business. Third-party assets under management rose 17% to 83.0 billion at year's end.
The value of new business increased 45% to 561 million francs, while the new business margin slipped to 1.9% from 2.6% the year before, it said.
It did not provide a detailed outlook for 2020, but Chief Executive Patrick Frost said:
"Last year's extraordinarily strong increase in premiums was attributable to single premiums due to the withdrawal of a competitor from the full insurance business in Switzerland. We therefore expect premiums to decline in the current year."
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