Ageas completed on Friday 31 July 2015 the share buy-back programme announced on
6 August 2014. Between 11 August 2014 and 31 July 2015, Ageas has bought back 8,176,085 shares corresponding to 3.65% of the total shares outstanding and totaling EUR 250 million.

Ageas currently holds the 4,981,612 shares bought back since 31 December 2014 as treasury shares. The 3,194,473 shares bought back until 31 December 2014 were cancelled following the decision of the General meeting of shareholders held on 29 April 2015. Together with other treasury shares held by Ageas, the total number of shares now owned amounts to 4.14%.

Ageas's Board will propose to its shareholders at the next shareholders meeting the cancellation of all the shares bought back, after deduction of the shares to cover the commitment to share-plans granted to senior management.

The overview of the completed share buy-back programme is available on our website:
http://www.ageas.com/en/investors/share.

The final transactions in the period 27 July - 31 July 2015 are the following:

Date Number of
Shares		 Total amount
(EUR)		 Average price
(EUR)		 Lowest price
(EUR)		 Highest price
(EUR)
27-07-2015 38,000 1,392,312 36.64 36.51 36.90
28-07-2015 40,000 1,476,392 36.91 36.63 37.10
29-07-2015 40,000 1,488,012 37.20 36.98 37.34
30-07-2015 45,000 1,679,400 37.32 37.14 37.52
31-07-2015 33,169 1,236,646 37.28 37.11 37.48
Total 196,169 7,272,763 37.07 36.51 37.52

Ageas is an international insurance group with a heritage spanning 190 years. Ranked among the top 20 insurance companies in Europe, Ageas has chosen to concentrate its business activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the largest share of the global insurance market. These are grouped around four segments: Belgium, United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia and served through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors around the world. Ageas operates successful partnerships in Belgium, the UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and the Philippines and has subsidiaries in France, Portugal, Hong Kong and the UK. Ageas is the market leader in Belgium for individual life and employee benefits, as well as a leading Non-Life player through AG Insurance. In the UK, Ageas occupies the number 3 position in cars insured and has a strong presence in the over 50's market.Ageas employs more than 13,000 people in the consolidated entities and over 30,000 in the non-consolidated partnerships, and has reported annual inflows close to EUR 26 billion in 2014.


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