AIA Group: 2025 After-Tax Operating Profit of $7.136 Billion, Earnings Per Share Up 12%

On March 19, AIA Group announced its full-year 2025 results. The company achieved a record high in 2025, with new business value increasing by 15% year-over-year to a record $5.516 billion, driven by double-digit growth in most markets. Embedded value operating profit was $10.887 billion, up 13% per share, mainly supported by growth in new business value and positive operating variances. As of December 31, 2025, before returning $4.706 billion to shareholders, embedded value equity grew 18% to $84.384 billion. After deducting these items, embedded value equity stood at $79.678 billion, up 14% per share. The embedded value operating return increased by 90 basis points to 15.8% in 2025.

Generated free surplus net per share grew by 14% to $4.451 billion. The board recommended an increased final dividend of 10% per share, bringing the total annual dividend for 2025 to 193.08 Hong Kong cents per share. The board also approved a new share repurchase program of $1.743 billion in accordance with the group’s capital management policy. This includes $743 million, representing 75% of the target annual payout ratio of free surplus net, after deducting approximately $259.6 million in dividends for 2025, and an additional $1 billion after a regular review of the group’s capital position. Therefore, the total return to shareholders amounts to $4.339 billion.

The after-tax operating profit, a key measure of the group’s operational profitability, reached a record high of $7.136 billion in 2025, up 12% per share. The growth in after-tax operating profit, combined with prudent capital management, resulted in a 70 basis point increase in the annual shareholder distribution return on embedded value to a new high of 15.5%.

In 2025, AIA’s insurance services performance grew by 18% to $6.772 billion, accounting for 80% of pre-tax operating profit. Net investment performance after expenses was $3.133 billion, down $167 million from 2024, mainly due to further share buybacks reducing investment returns on surplus assets and lower interest rates in Mainland China and the US. Adjusted for these factors, net investment performance after expenses increased by 4%.

AIA Hong Kong achieved outstanding new business growth in 2025, with new business value rising 28% to $2.256 billion, including a 21% increase from local clients and a 35% increase from Mainland Chinese visitors. The market-leading “Best Agent” program contributed to a 26% growth in new business value, driven by an increase in active agents and productivity improvements. The partner distribution channel’s new business value grew by 46%, with both bancassurance and intermediary channels showing growth. The launch of a new flagship product boosted the new business value profit margin by 3.0 percentage points to 68.5%.

In 2025, AIA maintained steady performance in Mainland China, with accelerated growth in the second half, up 14% year-over-year, and over 20% growth in the first two months of 2026. After accounting for economic assumption changes, full-year new business value grew 2% to $1.24 billion. The “Best Agent” program accounted for 85% of new business value. The agency team continued to expand, with new agent onboarding increasing by 14% and active agents rising by 8%. The remaining 15% of new business value was contributed by bancassurance, benefiting from selected bank partner collaborations that increased policy premiums.

In August 2025, AIA announced a bold goal to achieve a 40% compound annual growth rate in new business value across regions from 2025 to 2030. In 2025, nine new regions—Tianjin, Hebei, Sichuan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Chongqing, and Zhejiang—saw a 45% increase in new business value to $118 million.

(AIA Group)

(Edited by: Qian Xiaorui)

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