Amanda Blanc “exceptionally pleased” with UK & Ireland performance
The CEO praised the impact of the business' commercial lines division and insisted the "excellent" results had no bearing on McCafferty’s exit.
Amanda Blanc, Axa group CEO UK & Ireland has praised a “strong and positive set of results” for 2017 as the business delivered an improved COR of 96.3%.
“Growth is in the key areas of health and commercial lines and more fundamentally we are improving the COR,” she explained.
Areas of improvement with commercial, which saw revenue go up to £1.34bn, included schemes which “is really starting to take hold” and Blanc also advised that the business experienced growth in its e-traded SME Connect
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