LONDON, February 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Paul Geddes, CEO, and John Reizenstein, CFO, discuss the first set of annual results for the retail general insurer since IPO where operating profit is up 9% on last year driven by a return to underwriting profit with a combined operating ratio of 99.2%.

Geddes and Reizenstein lay out their progress and plans to achieve £100m of gross annual cost savings by 2014, examine divisional performance and share views on recent regulatory reforms in the sector.

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