OREANDA-NEWS. On August 25, 2015 AXA announced the launch of its 2015 employee share offering (“SharePlan 2015”), a capital increase reserved to its employees worldwide.

Approximately 24,000 employees in 36 countries, representing over 20% of the eligible employees, subscribed to SharePlan 2015.

The aggregate proceeds from the offering amount to over Euro 375 million, for a total of approximately 19 million newly-issued shares1 , subscribed at a price of Euro 17.74 for the classic plan and Euro 20.27 for the leveraged plan. The new shares are created with full rights as of January 1st, 2015. This offering increases the total number of outstanding AXA shares which amounts to 2,462,887,941 on November 27, 2015.

Following SharePlan 2015, AXA’s employees hold 6.17% of the share capital and 7.91% of the voting rights.

ABOUT THE AXA GROUP

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 161,000 employees serving 103 million clients in 59 countries. In 2014, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 92.0 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 5.1 billion. AXA had Euro 1,277 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2014. The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA’s American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY. The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD. It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.