Group Financial Statements

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
from 1 January until 31 December 2020

In € thousand

Notes

1–12/2020

1–12/2019 adjusted

Profit/(loss) for the period

 

24,281

175,092

Amortisation of VBI, impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets, and depreciation of property, plant and equipment

 

191,812

114,273

Impairment losses/reversal of impairment losses on other investments

 

132,409

70,616

Gain/loss on the disposal of investments

 

–40,089

–74,458

Change in deferred

 

7,592

28,299

Change in securities at through profit or loss

 

45,408

110,137

Change in receivables

 

8,542

–44,131

Change in other receivables

 

–6,437

51,724

Change in direct insurance liabilities

 

–56,653

–2,603

Change in other liabilities

 

22,250

–11,103

Change in technical provisions

 

–208,442

19,754

Change in defined benefit obligations

 

208

–27,965

Change in deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities

 

–5,936

11,702

Change in other statement of financial position items

 

52,963

98,525

Net cash flow from operating activities

 

167,908

519,864

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from disposal of intangible assets and property, plant and equipment

 

13,712

4,615

Payments for acquisition of intangible assets and property, plant and equipment

 

–122,625

–165,074

Proceeds from disposal of consolidated companies

 

587

0

Net payments for acquisition of consolidated companies

 

–967,128

–4,523

Proceeds from disposal and maturity of other investments

 

3,466,661

3,810,353

Payments for acquisition of other investments

 

–3,447,712

–4,243,088

Change in unit-linked and index-linked life insurance investments

 

341,815

70,779

Net cash flow from investing activities

 

–714,690

–526,938

 

 

 

 

Dividend payments

21

–56,658

–164,809

Transactions between owners

 

–577

–54

Proceeds from other financing activities

 

792,871

0

Payments from other financing activities

25

–22,815

–794,017

Net cash flow from financing activities

 

712,821

–958,880

 

 

 

 

Change in cash and cash equivalents

 

166,039

–965,954

of which due to acquisitions of consolidated subsidiaries

 

31,202

58

Change in cash and cash equivalents due to movements in exchange rates

 

–4,948

1,185

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

14

479,621

1,444,391

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

14

640,713

479,621

 

 

 

 

Income taxes paid (Net cash flow from operating activities)

 

–33,371

–45,053

Interest paid (Net cash flow from operating activities)

 

–65,202

–60,945

Interest received (Net cash flow from operating activities)

 

386,059

401,064

Dividends received (Net cash flow from operating activities)

 

43,544

52,218

Acquisition costs
The amount paid to acquire an asset in cash or cash equivalents or the fair value of another form of compensation at the time of acquisition.
Fair value
The fair value is the price that would be collected in an ordinary business transaction between market participants for the sale of an asset or that would be paid for transferring a liability.
Direct insurance/insurance business acquired with the company itself
This relates to those contracts that a direct insurer enters into with private individuals or companies. The opposite of this is insurance acquired as a reinsurer (indirect business) for business acquired from another primary insurer or a reinsurer.