Aegon UK

Aegon UK is a pension, insurance and investment company based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Aegon UK is the brand name for Scottish Equitable plc and it is a subsidiary of Aegon N.V. a multi-national life insurance, pension and asset management company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands.

History

The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded in Edinburgh in 1831 and in 1861 it began paying out its first pension to Robert Christie.

In 1994, the company became Scottish Equitable plc with Aegon N.V. buying a 40% stake in the business. Aegon N.V. increased that stake to 100% by 1998.

In 2006 Scottish Equitable plc was rebranded as Aegon Scottish Equitable and in 2010 this was shortened to Aegon, although the legal entity is still Scottish Equitable plc.

Products and customers

Aegon UK has individual and corporate customers. It sells a range of pensions, annuities, life insurance, protection insurance and investment products to individual customers. To corporate customers it sells a range of pensions and actuarial and trustee solutions.

Aegon

Aegon or AEGON may refer to: