{"id":71763,"date":"2026-04-15T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/aegon-offloads-200-year-old-uk-business-to-standard-life-for-2bn\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:53","slug":"aegon-offloads-200-year-old-uk-business-to-standard-life-for-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/aegon-offloads-200-year-old-uk-business-to-standard-life-for-2bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Aegon offloads 200-year-old UK business to Standard Life for \u00a32bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal will create pensions and savings group with 16m customers and \u00a3480bn of assets, while Aegon focuses on US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/15\/stock-markets-iran-war-peace-deal-reeves-bessent-imf-business-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Dutch financial services group Aegon has struck a \u00a32bn deal to sell off its almost 200-year-old UK arm to Standard Life, as part of a US push in which the group will be rebranded as Transamerica.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Life, previously known as Phoenix Group, said the deal to buy Aegon UK would create a pensions and savings group with 16 million customers and \u00a3480bn of assets under administration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/15\/aegon-offloads-200-year-old-uk-business-to-standard-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal will create pensions and savings group with 16m customers and \u00a3480bn of assets, while Aegon focuses on US Business live \u2013 latest updates The Dutch financial services group Aegon has struck a \u00a32bn deal to sell off its almost 200-year-old UK arm to Standard Life, as part of a US push in which the &#8230; <a title=\"Aegon offloads 200-year-old UK business to Standard Life for \u00a32bn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/aegon-offloads-200-year-old-uk-business-to-standard-life-for-2bn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aegon offloads 200-year-old UK business to Standard Life for \u00a32bn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}