Aviva marks return to profit with a dividend cut
Aviva marked a return to profit in the first half of this year with a dividend cut, reversing a policy which maintained its total dividend for the loss-making year of 2008.
Aviva has reported a bigger than expected 6% rise in its 2011 earnings, helped by better profit margins in its life insurance business, and said capital reserves had recovered from a hit they took last year as a result of the euro zone debt crisis.