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AXA

AXA (Euronext: CS, NYSE: AXA) is an insurance company with a group headquarters in France. AXA is not the name of a single company but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the regulations of many different countries.The AXA group of companies are engaged in life, health and other forms of insurance, as well as investment management. The AXA group operates primarily in Western Europe, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, North America and the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East.
There are five operating business segments with the AXA group of companies: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance (including reinsurance), Asset Management and Other Financial Services.The combined group has 189,000 employees and 122 billions dollars of revenues in 2004. If AXA were a single company it would rank as the 15th largest company in the world (based on revenues) on the 2006 Fortune Global 500 list.[1]


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Aviva

Aviva plc (LSE: AV.) is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the biggest insurance group in the UK and the second-largest insurance group in Canada. Worldwide, it trails behind AXA, Allianz, ING and Fortis[citation needed]. It is one of the leading providers of life and pensions products in Europe and has a presence in 25 countries worldwide, notably France and The Netherlands. The company was formerly called CGNU, and was created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc (itself created by the 1998 merger of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2000. The Aviva name was adopted in July 2002. The company still uses the Norwich Union name within the United Kingdom.

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