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.jpg) Headquarters atAIA Central inHong Kong | |
Native name | 友邦保險控股有限公司 |
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| Company type | Public |
| SEHK: 1299 Hang Seng Component | |
| Industry | Insurance andfinancial services |
| Founded | 19 December 1919; 106 years ago (1919-12-19) inShanghai (as American Asiatic Underwriters, later known asAIG) 1 December 2009; 16 years ago (2009-12-01) inNew York City (as American International Assurance Company, Limited)[1] |
| Founder | Cornelius Vander Starr |
| Headquarters | AIA Central Central, Hong Kong |
Area served | Asia-Pacific |
Key people | Lee Yuan Siong (President &CEO) |
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| Total assets | US$284 billion (as of 31 December 2019)[2] |
| Website | aia |
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| Traditional Chinese | 友邦保險 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 友邦保险 | ||||||||||
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AIA Group Limited, often known asAIA (Chinese:友邦保險;Jyutping:Jau5 bong1 bou2 him2), is a Hong Kong–basedmultinationalinsurance and finance corporation. It is the largest publicly tradedlife insurance group in theAsia-Pacific region. It offers insurance and financial services, writing life insurance for individuals and businesses, as well as accident and health insurance, and offers retirement planning, and wealth management services, variable contracts, investments and securities.
AIA is headquartered inCentral, Hong Kong, with a presence in 18 markets in Asia-Pacific, with wholly owned branches and subsidiaries in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Macau, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia,the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand,Sri Lanka and a 49% joint venture in India. Since 2013, AIA has had an exclusivebancassurance agreement withCitibank that encompasses 11 AIA markets in Asia-Pacific.
In August 2013, AIA became the official shirt partner of theEnglish Premier League football clubTottenham Hotspur. AIA's contract with Tottenham was renewed in May 2017 to extend through the2021–22 Premier League season, and again in July 2019 to extend that date to the end of the 2026–27 season.
In February 2019, AIA signed a two-year deal to become the main sponsor of theSingapore Premier League. The arrangement was later extended to the end of the2022 season, with an option for another three years.[3]
Founded in Hong Kong in 1931, AIA has its markets in Southeast Asia and Australasia. It has wholly-owned subsidiaries and affiliates in 15 regions: Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Mainland China, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Macau, Brunei, and Cambodia. In addition, it holds a 97% stake in its Sri Lankan subsidiary, a 49% stake in its joint venture in India, and maintains a representative office in Myanmar.
On 29 October 2010, AIA Insurance and Investment Securities was spun off from the financially troubled American International Group (AIG) and successfully listed in Hong Kong. It issued 8.08 billion shares, raising HK$159 billion, while AIA Aurora (controlled by AIG) saw its stake diluted to 32.9%. Since listing on the Hong Kong main board, its market value has more than tripled, with total group assets reaching US$221 billion. AIA Insurance Holdings Limited (stock code: 1299) was, at one point, tied with Tencent as the largest constituent of the Hang Seng Index during the February 2021 review.[4] However, following multiple index adjustments, its weighting gradually declined to 4.72% as of June 2025.[5]
According to provisional statistics from the Insurance Authority and the Securities and Futures Commission for Hong Kong's long-term insurance and investment securities business from January to December 2017, AIA has over 3 million customers. It is the insurance and investment securities company with the most policies in Hong Kong, meaning roughly one in every four Hong Kong residents with medical insurance or investment securities is an AIA Hong Kong customer. Additionally, combined membership of MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) in AIA Hong Kong and AIA Macau ranked first for the 17th consecutive year.
AIA traces its roots to 19 December 1918 whenCornelius Vander Starr founded what was then known as American Asiatic Underwriters inShanghai, China (later American International Underwriters). Starr eventually expanded his business throughout the world. On 21 January 1939, Starr relocated his head office from Shanghai to New York City after the Japanese invasion of China and again on 5 April 1949 with the communist takeover of mainland China, and the Chinese AIA became a subsidiary of New York-basedAmerican International Group (AIG).
On 1 December 2009, AIG sold preferred equity interests in two newly formed international life insurance subsidiaries, American International Assurance Company, Limited (AIA) andAmerican Life Insurance Company (ALICO), to theFederal Reserve Bank of New York to reduce its debt by US$25 billion.[1]
AIA had planned to be a listed company inHong Kong Stock Exchange andSecurities and Futures Commission on 3 April 2010. However, on 2 March 2010,Prudential PLC, a UK-based financial services and securities company, announced that it would buy AIA for US$35.5 billion.[6] The purchase later fell through, and AIA held anIPO in October 2010, raising approximately HK$159.08 billion (US$20.51 billion), which at the time was the world's third largest IPO ever[7] (currently sixth as of June 2023).[8]
On 11 September 2012, AIA acquired a 92.3% stake in Sri Lankan insurer Aviva NDB Insurance from British insurer Aviva and Sri Lanka's National Development Bank (NDB). AIA also entered into an exclusive 20-yearbancassurance agreement with NDB, one of Sri Lanka's largest financial conglomerates with a nationwide bank branch network.
On 7 October 2012, AIA acquiredING Group's Malaysian insurance subsidiaries for a cash consideration of €1.336 billion (US$1.73 billion).[9]
On 21 December 2012, AIG sold all of its 13.69% shareholding in AIA.[10]
Since 2 June 2013, AIA has had an exclusivebancassurance agreement withCitibank that encompasses 11 AIA markets in Asia-Pacific, namely Hong Kong, mainland China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, and India.[11]
In 2024, it was named amongFortune's Fintech Innovators Asia.[12]
In August 2024, AIA Group was fined HK $23 million (approximately S$3.9 million) by Hong Kong's Insurance Authority for shortcomings related to its anti-money laundering (AML) oversight.[13] The inspection, which covered business activities between March 2016 and October 2022, identified deficiencies in the company's anti-money laundering systems, including delays in identifying certain politically exposed persons and in applying enhanced due diligence to some high-risk customers.[14]
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