PARIS, August 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

AXA, a world leader in insurance and asset management, reports 2014 half year earnings. Henri de Castries, Chairman & CEO of AXA, comments on the performance.

Watch video interview and read transcript: 

http://www.eurobusinessmedia.com/ceo-direct/axa/axa-hy-2014-interview-with-chairman-ceo-henri-de-castries,2014-07-30,1233?utm_source=ceo-direct&utm_medium=wire

Topics covered in the interview include: 

- Comments on results

- Ambition AXA

- Message to the teams

About AXA 

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 157,000 employees serving 102 million clients in 56 countries. In 2013, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 91.2 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 4.7 billion. AXA had Euro 1,113 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2013.

The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 - Bloomberg: CS FP - Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA's American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.

The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD.

It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

SOURCE AXA