Aviva CEO: Underlying profit trend up despite fall for UKGI

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Mark Wilson says all the metrics pointing in the right direction for the group "after three years of fixing the business".

Aviva's chief executive officer Mark Wilson said the insurer's underlying profit trend is up despite a 19% fall in operating profit to £368m for 2015 which he attributed primarily to December's floods.

The company's financial results show that the bad weather at the end of last year cost the firm £132m.

"We can do a lot of things in general insurance," Wilson remarked, "one thing I can't do yet is control the weather. That's the single biggest factor."

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