AEG 6-K Filing Highlights Corporate Registration and ESG Risk
Rhea-AI Filing Summary
Aegon Limited submitted a Form 6-K containing corporate identification and jurisdictional details and a brief note referencing potential ESG-related goals or public expectations that may negatively affect the company’s or its directors’ reputations. The filing identifies Aegon Limited as an exempted Bermuda company with a principal place of business in the Netherlands and includes registrar and chamber of commerce numbers, office locations, and a signature from J.O. van Klinken. The disclosure is administrative in nature with a single reputational risk statement related to ESG expectations.
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- Corporate registration and jurisdiction details are clearly stated, aiding legal and compliance verification
- Signed disclosure (identified signatory) provides accountability for the submission
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- ESG-related goals or public expectations are noted as potentially harming the company’s or directors’ reputation
Insights
TL;DR: Routine administrative disclosure with a clear reputational note on ESG; no financial metrics or transactions disclosed.
The filing provides standard corporate registration and jurisdiction information that helps confirm legal domicile and operating addresses. The explicit mention that ESG-related goals or public expectations "may negatively affect" reputation is a non-quantitative risk disclosure. From a governance perspective, such language signals awareness of stakeholder scrutiny but does not describe controls, targets, or mitigation steps. Absent financial or operational detail, the document is informational rather than material.
TL;DR: Administrative filing with a qualitative ESG reputational risk callout; no immediate material impact identified.
The report lists corporate identifiers and locations, which supports legal and compliance tracing. The ESG reference is a qualitative risk—reputational rather than operational or financial—because the filing does not quantify exposure or link to specific liabilities, fines, or targets. For risk assessment, this is a signal to monitor subsequent disclosures for concrete ESG commitments, metrics, or incidents that could change impact assessment.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of August 2025
Commission File Number 001-10882
Aegon Ltd.
| Aegon Limited | Statutory seat | Principle place of business | Bermuda Registrar of Companies number: 202302830 | |||
| An exempted company with liability | Canon’s Court | World Trade Center Schiphol | (September 30, 2023) | |||
| limited by shares | 22 Victoria Street | Schiphol Boulevard 223 | Dutch Chamber of Commerce number: 27076669 | |||
| Hamilton HM 12 | 1118 BH Schiphol | Aegon Limited is a non-resident company under the Dutch | ||||
| www.aegon.com | Bermuda | The Netherlands | Act Non Residential Companies |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Aegon Ltd | ||||||
| (Registrant) | ||||||
| Date August 25, 2025 | By | /s/ J.O. van Klinken | ||||
| J.O. van Klinken | ||||||
| Executive Vice President and General Counsel | ||||||
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August 25, 2025
Press release |
Aegon implements increase in share buyback program
Aegon today announces that the EUR 200 million share buyback program that began on July 1, 2025, has been increased by EUR 200 million to EUR 400 million with effect as of today. This increase was first announced on August 21, 2025.
To date, share repurchases for an aggregate purchase price of EUR 87 million have been completed, representing approximately 43% completion of the initial EUR 200 million program. The increased share buyback is expected to be completed by December 15, 2025, barring unforeseen circumstances.
Aegon has entered into an agreement with its largest shareholder, Vereniging Aegon, to participate in the additional EUR 200 million that has been added to the initial program, in which Vereniging Aegon also participates. Vereniging Aegon will participate pro-rata in the share buyback program based on its combined common shares and common shares B, which represent about 18.4% of the total shareholders’ voting rights that are currently exercisable. This results in a buyback amount of EUR 34 million for the additional part of the share buyback program and an aggregate amount of EUR 71 million for the full share buyback program. The number of common shares that Aegon will repurchase from Vereniging Aegon will be determined based on the daily volume-weighted average price per common share on Euronext Amsterdam.
Aegon has engaged a third party to execute the buyback transactions on its behalf. The common shares will be repurchased at a maximum of the average of the daily volume-weighted average price per common share during the repurchase period. Aegon intends to cancel the shares it will repurchase in this share buyback program.
The share buyback program will be executed in compliance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation and within the limitations of the existing authority as granted by our shareholders at our annual general meeting held on June 12, 2025. For further details, visit our share buyback updates page at aegon.com.
| Contacts |
| Media relations |
Investor relations | |
| Richard Mackillican |
Yves Cormier | |
| +31(0) 62 741 1546 |
+44 (0) 782 337 1511 | |
| richard.mackillican@aegon.com |
yves.cormier@aegon.com |
About Aegon
Aegon is an international financial services holding company. Aegon’s ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Aegon’s portfolio of businesses includes fully owned businesses in the United States and United Kingdom, and a global asset manager. Aegon also creates value by combining its international expertise with strong local partners via insurance joint-ventures in Spain & Portugal, China, and Brazil, and via asset management partnerships in France and China. In addition, Aegon owns a Bermuda-based life insurer and generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market leading Dutch insurance and pensions company. Aegon’s purpose of helping people live their best lives runs through all its activities. As a leading global investor and employer, Aegon seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues. Aegon is headquartered in Schiphol, the Netherlands, domiciled in Bermuda, and listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. More information can be found at aegon.com
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August 25, 2025
Press release |
Forward-looking statements
The statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The following are words that identify such forward-looking statements: aim, believe, estimate, target, intend, may, expect, anticipate, predict, project, counting on, plan, continue, want, forecast, goal, should, would, could, is confident, will, and similar expressions as they relate to Aegon. These statements may contain information about financial prospects, economic conditions and trends and involve risks and uncertainties. In addition, any statements that refer to sustainability, environmental and social targets, commitments, goals, efforts and expectations and other events or circumstances that are partially dependent on future events are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Aegon undertakes no obligation, and expressly disclaims any duty, to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which merely reflect company expectations at the time of writing. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from expectations conveyed in forward-looking statements due to changes caused by various risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the following:
| • | Changes in general economic and/or governmental conditions, particularly in Bermuda, the United States, the United Kingdom and in relation to Aegon’s shareholding in ASR Nederland N.V. and asset management business, the Netherlands; |
| • | Civil unrest, (geo-) political tensions, military action or other instability in countries or geographic regions that affect our operations or that affect global markets; |
| • | Changes in the performance of financial markets, including emerging markets, such as with regard to: |
| • | The frequency and severity of defaults by issuers in Aegon’s fixed income investment portfolios; |
| • | The effects of corporate bankruptcies and/or accounting restatements on the financial markets and the resulting decline in the value of equity and debt securities Aegon holds; |
| • | The effects of declining creditworthiness of certain public sector securities and the resulting decline in the value of government exposure that Aegon holds; |
| • | The impact from volatility in credit, equity, and interest rates; |
| • | Changes in the performance of Aegon’s investment portfolio and decline in ratings of Aegon’s counterparties; |
| • | The effect of tariffs and potential trade wars on trading markets and on economic growth, globally and in the markets where Aegon operates. |
| • | Lowering of one or more of Aegon’s debt ratings issued by recognized rating organizations and the adverse impact such action may have on Aegon’s ability to raise capital and on its liquidity and financial condition; |
| • | Lowering of one or more of insurer financial strength ratings of Aegon’s insurance subsidiaries and the adverse impact such action may have on the written premium, policy retention, profitability and liquidity of its insurance subsidiaries; |
| • | The effect of applicable Bermuda solvency requirements, the European Union’s Solvency II requirements, and applicable equivalent solvency requirements and other regulations in other jurisdictions affecting the capital Aegon is required to maintain and our ability to pay dividends; |
| • | Changes in the European Commissions’ or European regulator’s position on the equivalence of the supervisory regime for insurance and reinsurance undertakings in force in Bermuda; |
| • | Changes affecting interest rate levels and low or rapidly changing interest rate levels; |
| • | Changes affecting currency exchange rates, in particular the EUR/USD and EUR/GBP exchange rates; |
| • | The effects of global inflation, or inflation in the markets where Aegon operates; |
| • | Changes in the availability of, and costs associated with, liquidity sources such as bank and capital markets funding, as well as conditions in the credit markets in general such as changes in borrower and counterparty creditworthiness; |
| • | Increasing levels of competition, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, emerging markets and in relation to Aegon’s shareholding in ASR Nederland N.V. and asset management business, the Netherlands; |
| • | Catastrophic events, either manmade or by nature, including by way of example acts of God, acts of terrorism, acts of war and pandemics, could result in material losses and significantly interrupt Aegon’s business; |
| • | The frequency and severity of insured loss events; |
| • | Changes affecting longevity, mortality, morbidity, persistence and other factors that may impact the profitability of Aegon’s insurance products and management of derivatives; |
| • | Aegon’s projected results are highly sensitive to complex mathematical models of financial markets, mortality, longevity, and other dynamic systems subject to shocks and unpredictable volatility. Should assumptions to these models later prove incorrect, or should errors in those models escape the controls in place to detect them, future performance will vary from projected results; |
| • | Reinsurers to whom Aegon has ceded significant underwriting risks may fail to meet their obligations; |
| • | Changes in customer behavior and public opinion in general related to, among other things, the type of products Aegon sells, including legal, regulatory or commercial necessity to meet changing customer expectations; |
| • | Customer responsiveness to both new products and distribution channels; |
| • | Third-party information used by us may prove to be inaccurate and change over time as methodologies and data availability and quality continue to evolve impacting our results and disclosures; |
| • | As Aegon’s operations support complex transactions and are highly dependent on the proper functioning of information technology, operational risks such as system disruptions or failures, security or data privacy breaches, cyberattacks, human error, failure to safeguard personally identifiable information, changes in operational practices or inadequate controls including with respect to third parties with which Aegon does business, may disrupt Aegon’s business, damage its reputation and adversely affect its results of operations, financial condition and cash flows; |
| • | Aegon’s failure to swiftly, effectively, and securely adapt and integrate emerging technologies; |
| • | The impact of acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, product withdrawals and other unusual items, including Aegon’s ability to complete, or obtain regulatory approval for, acquisitions and divestitures, integrate acquisitions, and realize anticipated results from such transactions, and its ability to separate businesses as part of divestitures. In particular, there is no certainty that Aegon’s review on a potential relocation of the company’s legal domicile and head office to the United States will result in a decision to pursue such a relocation. Furthermore, there is no guarantee, if pursued, what the manner, timing, and potential impacts of a relocation would be and if such relocation can be completed successfully. |
| • | Aegon’s failure to achieve anticipated levels of earnings or operational efficiencies, as well as other management initiatives related to cost savings, Cash Capital at Holding, gross financial leverage and free cash flow; |
| • | Changes in the policies of central banks and/or governments; |
| • | Litigation or regulatory action that could require Aegon to pay significant damages or change the way Aegon does business; |
| • | Competitive, legal, regulatory, or tax changes that affect profitability, the distribution cost of or demand for Aegon’s products; |
| • | Consequences of an actual or potential break-up of the European Monetary Union in whole or in part, or further consequences of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union and potential consequences if other European Union countries leave the European Union; |
| • | Changes in laws and regulations, or the interpretation thereof by regulators and courts, including as a result of comprehensive reform or shifts away from multilateral approaches to regulation of global or national operations, particularly regarding those laws and regulations related to ESG matters, those affecting Aegon’s operations’ ability to hire and retain key personnel, taxation of Aegon companies, the products Aegon sells, the attractiveness of certain products to its consumers and Aegon’s intellectual property; |
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August 25, 2025
Press release |
| • | Regulatory changes relating to the pensions, investment, insurance industries and enforcing adjustments in the jurisdictions in which Aegon operates; |
| • | Standard setting initiatives of supranational standard setting bodies such as the Financial Stability Board and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors or changes to such standards that may have an impact on regional (such as EU), national (such as Bermuda) or US federal or state level financial regulation or the application thereof to Aegon; |
| • | Changes in accounting regulations and policies or a change by Aegon in applying such regulations and policies, voluntarily or otherwise, which may affect Aegon’s reported results, shareholders’ equity or regulatory capital adequacy levels; |
| • | The rapidly changing landscape for ESG responsibilities, leading to potential challenges by private parties and governmental authorities, and/or changes in ESG standards and requirements, including assumptions, methodology and materiality, or a change by Aegon in applying such standards and requirements, voluntarily or otherwise, may affect Aegon’s ability to meet evolving standards and requirements, or Aegon’s ability to meet its sustainability and ESG-related goals, or related public expectations, which may also negatively affect Aegon’s reputation or the reputation of its board of directors or its management; |
| • | Unexpected delays, difficulties, and expenses in executing against Aegon’s environmental, climate, or other ESG targets, goals and commitments, and changes in laws or regulations affecting us, such as changes in data privacy, environmental, health and safety laws; and |
| • | Reliance on third-party information in certain of Aegon’s disclosures, which may change over time as methodologies and data availability and quality continue to evolve. These factors, as well as any inaccuracies in third-party information used by Aegon, including in estimates or assumptions, may cause results to differ materially and adversely from statements, estimates, and beliefs made by Aegon or third-parties. Moreover, Aegon’s disclosures based on any standards may change due to revisions in framework requirements, availability of information, changes in its business or applicable governmental policies, or other factors, some of which may be beyond Aegon’s control. Additionally, Aegon’s discussion of various ESG and other sustainability issues in this document or in other locations, including on our corporate website, may be informed by the interests of various stakeholders, as well as various ESG standards, frameworks, and regulations (including for the measurement and assessment of underlying data). As such, our disclosures on such issues, including climate-related disclosures, may include information that is not necessarily “material” under US securities laws for SEC reporting purposes, even if we use words such as “material” or “materiality” in relation to those statements. ESG expectations continue to evolve, often quickly, including for matters outside of our control; our disclosures are inherently dependent on the methodology (including any related assumptions or estimates) and data used, and there can be no guarantee that such disclosures will necessarily reflect or be consistent with the preferred practices or interpretations of particular stakeholders, either currently or in future. |
This document contains information that qualifies, or may qualify, as inside information within the meaning of Article 7(1) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation (596/2014). Further details of potential risks and uncertainties affecting Aegon are described in its filings with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including the 2024 Integrated Annual Report. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this document. Except as required by any applicable law or regulation, Aegon expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in Aegon’s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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