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There are corporate spinners, there are Olympic-level weasellers, and then… there’s Allianz Insurance Group — a company so deft at transforming disasters into dividends, they could probably monetise your house burning down and call it a "customer experience pivot." Let’s start with the basics: in the last five years, QBE has gone from barely paying dividends to flinging shareholder payouts around like a pre-election budget. Profits have soared, while your premium has quietly crept up so high it’s basically a financial landslide. Let’s review the so-called Executive Summary, which we’ve annotated for those of us who don’t get quarterly bonuses for creative accounting. 📊 Allianz 2020–2024 “Don’t-Worry-You’ll-Pay-For-It” Financials Year Profit After Tax (US$ billion) Return to Shareholders (dividends + buybacks) 2024 1.779 A$0.87/share — fat 50% payout. Pop...

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