{"id":380695,"date":"2026-04-15T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:06:12","slug":"standard-life-to-buy-aegon-uk-for-2-billion-in-pensions-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380695\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Life to Buy Aegon UK for \u00a32 Billion in Pensions Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Standard Life Plc agreed to buy the UK arm of Dutch insurer Aegon Ltd. for \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) as the savings firm looks to grab a bigger slice of Britain\u2019s pensions market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">London-listed Standard Life will be paying \u00a3750 million in cash, financed through \u00a3650 million in new debt and cash resources, it said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/TDIU010C3G21\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">statementBloomberg Terminal<\/a> Wednesday. The company will also issue 181.1 million in new shares to Aegon at deal completion which is expected at the end of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standard Life Plc agreed to buy the UK arm of Dutch insurer Aegon Ltd. for \u00a32 billion ($2.7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[198012,90640,138,5399,246,648,198013,1619,198011,111,139,69,198010,244,245,198009,2025,16541],"class_list":{"0":"post-380695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aberdeen-group-plc","9":"tag-aegon-ltd","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-industries","14":"tag-lloyds-banking-group-plc","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-msad-insurance-group-holdin","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-pensions-policy-institute-th","21":"tag-personal-finance","22":"tag-personalfinance","23":"tag-standard-life-plc","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-valuation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}