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TURKEY INSURANCE - Gunes Sigorta – Meeting Takeaways

Management expects to launch the IPO of Gunes Sigorta’s 37.1% subsidiary, Vakıf Private Pension and Life Company, in 2020. Gunes Sigorta may create noticeable cash inflow from the potential IPO, according to management. The book value of the 37.1% stake is at TRY533m.

Management stated that there is a total of TRY246m loss in retained earnings in the company’s balance sheet. To be able to distribute dividend, the loss in retained earnings have to turn positive. If Gunes Sigorta manages to post stronger earnings in 4Q and in 2020, it may distribute a dividend in 2021, according to management.

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Turkiye Sigorta

Gunes Sigorta AS is a Turkey-based company that provides a range of insurance services. Its products include fire, accident, shipping, engineering, legal protection, credit, agriculture, health and life insurance packages. In addition to these main insurance types, it also offers specific coverage for events or products, such as robbery, money transport, glass, hotel liability, travel, product responsibility, office, profit loss and traffic-related issues. The Company operates through 11 regional offices, three representative offices and approximately 2,600 agencies in Turkey. The Company's main shareholders are VakifBank (32.22%), a Turkish bank, and Groupama (30%), a French insurance company.

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