AEGON to Publish Preliminary Q4 Results on February 17, 2009

Full Financial Calendar for 2009 and 2010 Also Detailed 


THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, February 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AEGON will release estimated preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2008 on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 07:30 AM CET. Complete fourth quarter and full year 2008 results will be published, as scheduled, on Thursday, March 12, 2009.

AEGON, meanwhile, has brought forward the release of its fourth quarter 2009 results from March to February 25th, 2010 - part of broader efforts to ensure information is provided to financial markets in a more timely and effective manner. Today, AEGON is also publishing details of its financial calendar for 2009 and 2010. Please note that all quarterly earnings will be published at 07:30 AM CET.

  2009

  February 17 Preliminary fourth quarter 2008 results
  March 12 Fourth quarter 2008 results
  March 23 Record date for attending / voting at the April 22 AGM
  March 31 Annual Report 2008 available on corporate website
  April 22 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders*)
  May 14 First quarter 2009 results and Embedded Value 2008
  June 9 - 10 Analyst & Investor Conference - London
  August 13 Second quarter 2009 results
  November 12 Third quarter 2009 results
  December 2 Investor Day - New York

  *) As announced in the press release of October 28, 2008 regarding the
     capital agreement with the Dutch state, AEGON will forego the final
     dividend to shareholders for 2008

  2010

  February 25 Fourth quarter 2009 results
  March 29 Annual Report 2009 available on corporate website
  April 29 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
  May 12 First quarter 2010 results and Embedded Value 2009
  August 12 Second quarter 2010 results
  November 11 Third quarter 2010 results




AEGON's regular quarterly and annual earnings will be published on the company's website on the day of their release. Details on the scheduled news conferences and analysts' meetings will be published on AEGON's corporate website (http://www.aegon.com/).

All dates mentioned above are preliminary dates and may be subject to change.

As an international life insurance, pension and investment company based in The Hague, AEGON has businesses in over twenty markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia. AEGON companies employ nearly 32,000 people and have over 40 million customers across the globe.

  Key figures              2007                  First nine months 2008

  Underlying earnings      EUR 2.64 billion      EUR 1.75 billion
  before tax
  New life sales           EUR 3.27 billion      EUR 2.03 billion
  Gross deposits           EUR 44.53 billion     EUR 28.82 billion
  Revenue generating       EUR 371 billion       EUR 351 billion
  investments
  (end of period)


  Forward-looking statements


The statements contained in this press release 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: believe, estimate, target, intend, may, expect, anticipate, predict, project, counting on, plan, continue, want, forecast, should, would, is confident, will, and similar expressions as they relate to our company. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. We undertake no obligation 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 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 conditions, particularly in the United
    States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom;
  - Changes in the performance of financial markets, including emerging
    markets, such as with regard to:
  - The frequency and severity of defaults by issuers in our fixed income
    investment portfolios; and
  - 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 we hold;
  - The frequency and severity of insured loss events;
  - Changes affecting mortality, morbidity and other factors that may
    impact the profitability of our insurance products;
  - Changes affecting interest rate levels and continuing low or rapidly
    changing interest rate levels;
  - Changes affecting currency exchange rates, in particular the EUR/USD
    and EUR/GBP exchange rates;
  - Increasing levels of competition in the United States, the Netherlands,
    the United Kingdom and emerging markets;
  - Changes in laws and regulations, particularly those affecting our
    operations, the products we sell, and the attractiveness of certain
    products to our consumers;
  - Regulatory changes relating to the insurance industry in the
    jurisdictions in which we operate;
  - Acts of God, acts of terrorism, acts of war and pandemics;
  - Changes in the policies of central banks and/or governments;
  - Litigation or regulatory action that could require us to pay
    significant damages or change the way we do business;
  - Customer responsiveness to both new products and distribution channels;
  - Competitive, legal, regulatory, or tax changes that affect the
    distribution cost of or demand for our products;
  - Our failure to achieve anticipated levels of earnings or operational
    efficiencies as well as other cost saving initiatives; and
  - The impact our adoption of the International Financial Reporting
    Standards may have on our reported financial results and financial
    condition.



  Group Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
  Media relations                Investor relations
  Greg Tucker                    Gerbrand Nijman
  [phone]              [phone] or
  E-mail:        877-548-9668 - toll free USA only
                                 E-mail: 
  Website http://www.aegon.com/

DATASOURCE: AEGON N.V.



CONTACT:  Group Corporate Communications & Investor Relations: Media

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