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Proposal for profit appropriation
Appropriation of profit will be determined in accordance
with the articles 31 and 32 of the Articles of Incorporation of AEGON
N.V. The relevant provisions read as follows:
- The General Meeting of Shareholders shall
adopt the annual accounts.
- If the adopted profit and loss account
shows a profit, the Supervisory Board may decide, upon the proposal of the
Executive Board, to set aside part of the profit to augment and/or form
reserves.
- From the net profit as reflected in the
profit and loss account, if it is sufficient to this end after a part of the
profit has been set aside for augmenting and/or forming reserves in accordance
with 2, first of all the holders of preferred shares shall receive, on the
amount paid on their preferred shares, a dividend the percentage of which, on an
annual basis, shall be equal to the European Central Banks fixed interest
percentage for basic refinancing transactions, to be increased by 1.75
percentage points, all applicable to the first trading day on Euronext Amsterdam
in the financial year to which the dividend relates. Apart from this, no other
dividend is to be paid on the preferred shares.
- The profits remaining after application of
the above shall be put at the disposal of the General Meeting of Shareholders.
The Executive Board, subject to the approval of the Supervisory Board, shall
make a proposal for that purpose. A proposal to pay a dividend shall be dealt
with as a separate agenda item at the General Meeting of Shareholders.
- The Executive Board may, subject to the
approval of the Supervisory Board, make one or more interim distributions to the
holders of common shares and/or to the holders of preferred shares, the latter
subject to the maximum dividend amount set forth under 3.
- The Executive Board may, subject to the
approval of the Supervisory Board, decide that a distribution on common shares
shall not take place as a cash payment but as a payment in common shares, or
decide that holders of common shares shall have the option to receive a
distribution as a cash payment and/or as a payment in common shares, in all
cases out of the profit and/or at the expense of reserves. Subject to the
approval of the Supervisory Board, the Executive Board shall also determine the
conditions applicable to the aforementioned choices.
- The companys policy on reserves and
dividends shall be determined and can be amended by the Supervisory Board, upon
the proposal of the Executive Board. The adoption and thereafter each amendment
of the policy on reserves and dividends shall be discussed and accounted for at
the General Meeting of Shareholders under a separate agenda item.
It is proposed to the annual General Meeting of
Shareholders on April 23, 2008, to pay a dividend for the year 2007 of
EUR 0.62 per common share of EUR 0.12 par value which, after taking into account
the EUR 0.30 interim dividend, leads to a final dividend of EUR 0.32 per common
share. It is also proposed that the final dividend will be made available
entirely in cash or entirely in shares, at the election of the shareholder. The
value of the stock dividend will be approximately 5% lower than the value of the
cash dividend and will be paid out of the paid-in surplus fund. Shareholders can
elect to receive a dividend in cash or in shares up to and including May 16,
2008.
In order to reflect the prevailing market price of AEGON
N.V. common shares fully within the indication provided, the number of dividend
coupons that gives entitlement to a new common share of EUR 0.12 will be
determined on May 16, 2008, after 5:30 p.m., based on the average share price
quoted by Euronext Amsterdam in the five trading days from May 12, 2008 up to
and including May 16, 2008.
In accordance with article 32, paragraph 3 of the
Articles of Incorporation, a cash dividend equal to 5.25% of the amount paid on
the preferred shares will be distributed.
Upon approval of this proposal, profit will be
appropriated as follows:
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2007
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2006 1
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Dividend on preferred shares
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85
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85
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Interim dividend on common shares
(cash portion)
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281
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208
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Final dividend on common shares
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302
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491
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Earnings to be retained
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1,883
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2,385
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Net income
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2,551
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3,169
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- In 2007, AEGON changed its
accounting poicy regarding the valuation of minimum
guarantees applied by AEGON The Netherlands. Further
reference is made to note 2.2.
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