It’s game over after Axa raised my home insurance price by 70%
Every year its renewal goes up by about 20%, then we negotiate. But this year it is playing hardball
August 2023
Crisis in NHS presents ‘business opportunities’, says boss of insurer Axa
Thomas Buberl says firm will respond to long waiting times and staffing shortages for patients by expanding activity in UK
September 2022
Your problems, with Anna Tims
Axa refused to pay my travel insurance claim … then ignored me
First it asked for two years’ medical history, then five. Then I couldn’t get anyone to answer the phone
April 2021
Property developer plans 5,000 UK retirement homes in city centres
French-owned Retirement Villages Group aims to spend £2bn across 40 locations over the next decade
October 2020
Consumer champions
Neither Eurostar nor insurers will refund me for cancelled trip
My journey was cancelled due to Covid restrictions but Lloyds bank and Axa won’t pay up
November 2019
King coal no more as insurer Axa vows to divest from fossil fuel
Group says it will phase out investments, and underwriting of companies that back coal
December 2018
Insurers in UK and US lagging behind in divesting from coal, report finds
European firms are making faster progress in refusing to insure polluting firms, says campaign group Unfriend Coal
December 2017
UK lacks infrastructure for self-driving electric cars, says Axa
Insurance giant Axa dumps investments in tar sands pipelines
November 2017
Your problems, with Anna Tims
Axa won’t pay out after my brother’s death meant I had to cancel a trip
I’ve been offered a paltry amount and my calls are being ignored
October 2016
City of London's tallest building to be built despite Brexit vote
After delay over referendum result owners confirm 278-metre tower at 22 Bishopsgate will go ahead
August 2016
The long read
The doctor who beat big tobacco
The Long Read: When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
May 2016
Axa sells UK businesses including SunLife to insurer Phoenix
Agreed sale of investment, pensions and insurance businesses completes exit of Axa from British life and savings market
Axa to divest €1.8bn of tobacco investments
Insurer calls on industry peers to follow suit as it announces plans to abandon tobacco stocks despite their lucrativeness
Axa to stop investing in tobacco industry
One of the largest insurance companies in the world says the economic and human costs of smoking are too high
March 2016
Axa's Henri de Castries resigns, fuelling HSBC speculation
De Castries says he is leaving Axa with ‘great emotion’ after 27 years
November 2015
Reworked Pinnacle to set new heights for City of London
Planning approved for 62-storey skyscraper which was abandoned four years ago and has been redesigned by PLP Architecture
August 2015
Exit from EU would damage Britain and Europe, says Axa chairman
Axa boss Henri de Castries on coal: 'Do you really want to be the last investor?'
June 2015
Keep it in the ground
Coal crash: how pension funds face huge risk from climate change
Special report: The plummeting coal sector and a growing green divestment movement is leaving firms who still invest in fossil fuels and connected pension holders heavily exposed
