Aviva H1 IFRS Profit Climbs - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - British life and health insurer Aviva Plc (AV.L, AV) posted a surge in six-month pre-tax profit from continuing operations attributable to shareholders' profits to 1.14 billion pounds, from 623 million pounds last year.

On a continuing operations basis, profit attributable to equity shareholders of Aviva plc was 755 million pounds, higher than the prior year's 693 million pounds. Half-yearly earnings per share from continuing operations amounted to 24.6 pence.

On an MCEV basis, earnings after tax from continuing operations came in at 910 million pounds during the half year. For the first half, MCEV pre-tax profit from continuing operations attributable to shareholders' profits slid to 1.27 billion pounds, from 1.4 billion pounds, reported a year ago.

Gross written premiums from continuing operations totaled 11.37 billion pounds, compared with 11.45 billion pounds last year.