Life insurance, savings, pensions
"The world is getting older. Our social welfare systems, designed for a past demographic situation, will no longer be able to provide financial independence for the majority of people. The situation will generate either human drama for the elderly or social tensions due to the risk of an inter-generational economic imbalance. Today, AXA has therefore deliberately chosen to focus its life insurance and savings activities on critical retirement issues".
Henri de Castries, Chairman of the AXA Group's management board.
Set against the aging of the population in developed countries, growth today without endangering the resources available to future generations involves among other things the sustainable financing of pensions. This means helping ensure that costs are split fairly between workers and pensioners over the long term, while raising awareness of this issue both individually and collectively well before people reach retirement age.
AXA believes that it has an important role to play in terms of both educating people and providing products and services, in order to limit this inter-generational financial imbalance that will be brought about by social protection systems being out of sync with demographic trends.
This is what the Group's awareness-building campaigns are working towards, looking beyond the accepted and necessary commercial grounds. In order to fuel debate at national level, these campaigns are notably drawing on the global research carried out each year into the behaviors and cultures of various populations in relation to retirement issues. In addition, the Group is developing a range of innovative solutions on this segment, combining savings, advisory and healthcare services as well as assistance.
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