Achmea Holding N.V. is one of the largest suppliers of financial services (mainly

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) in the Netherlands. The company was formed by a merger of

Zilveren Kruis Zilveren Kruis (Silver Cross) is a Dutch health insurance company, based in Leiden, which was founded in 1949. It is part of the Achmea group which was created in 1995 when it merged with the Avéro-Centraal Beheer Group. The Ziekenhuis Sint ...

and Avéro Centraal Beheer Groep on January 1, 1995. The roots of Achmea date back to 1811 when the Frisian accountant, , founded the "Onderlinge Brand Assurantie Sociëteit (Achlum)" in

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. In 2000, Achmea became a part of Eureko BV, which in 2011 merged with the Dutch parent company Achmea N.V. to form Achmea B.V. The Vereniging Achmea (association) owns or controls 63.3% of Achmea B.V. of its votes, the

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bank

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owns or controls 31.3% of the shares, the other 5.4% of the shares are owned or controlled by strategic partners. Achmea brands include Agis, Avéro, Centraal Beheer, FBTO, Interpolis, Syntrus and Zilveren Kruis (often suffixed by 'Achmea'). Of the ten largest insurance companies in the Netherlands, Achmea is one of the two that was found in a 2015 investigation to not invest in

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s, fragile states and corrupt countries (

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being the other one).

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