Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us here today for this Customer In Focus session. It's really great to see you all. So I'm here with Cheryl Toner, our Chief Customer and Marketing Officer. She now joined us over three years ago from NatWest, and she's brought invaluable expertise on the customer and digital from the banking world. And of course, now we would consider ourselves to be up there with them on that, with some of the technology that we have. Since joining Aviva, Cheryl's been instrumental in transforming our customer and marketing capabilities, and in turn, how we deliver for our customers. So today we're going to take you through the progress that we've made, tell you about the opportunities we see, and the priorities in more detail. We also have Doug Brown, and Jason Storah with us to share examples directly from the business.
Of course, there'll be plenty of time for Q&A at the end. Before we get started, I want you to put the session in context. Over the last three years, we have held seven In Focus sessions covering the full spectrum of our business across insurance, wealth, and retirement. Through these, you've seen the advantages that scale and diversification brings to Aviva. Today's session is about the glue that holds our model together: customer. In fact, everything that we've already delivered is down to our customer-centered strategy in our core markets of the U.K., Canada, and Ireland, and the investments that we've made in our customer capabilities. Now we want to tell you more about what we see as a critical underpin for our confidence in our financial targets. Let's start with today's key messages.
As I've always said, customers are at the heart of Aviva. With almost 20 million of them, we have a franchise that sets us apart with a real competitive advantage. We've made a huge amount of progress. More and more people are choosing Aviva. We're serving more of their needs, and we're transforming experience. There is still so much more to go after. We have ambitions to grow to over 21 million customers and 5.7 million U.K. customers with multiple policies by 2026. The potential beyond this is significant. While these aren't financial targets, they are the core elements of our equity story. As you know, our strategy is focused on becoming the go-to customer brand across insurance, wealth, and retirement. We want to be there for our customers wherever and however they need us.
We want more of them to stay with us for longer so that we can look after more of their needs through key life moments. Because of the breadth of our product offering, we have the ability to do just that. From Junior ISAs, first workplace pensions with auto-enrollment, insurance on cars and homes, right through to helping prepare for and transition into retirement. As a result, more people will continue to choose Aviva, allowing us to grow sustainably and profitably, whatever market challenges we face. Let's move to our unrivaled customer franchise. In the U.K., we have the largest customer base of any insurer, right up there with the major U.K. banks. The importance of this scale cannot be overstated. It's a key source of growth for us, so let me tell you why. Today, we have five million customers in the U.K. with multiple policies.
We know these customers are more engaged and will stay with us for longer. That means we have 11 million with just a single policy. This is a huge opportunity, and it exists right there in our customer base. We know them, they know us, and we don't have to go out and find them. With all the work that we've done to unlock marketing permissions, we can now directly speak to almost nine million customers, deepening relationships and building greater levels of trust and loyalty. We also have 3.5 million affluent customers that hold over more than GBP 1 trillion worth of assets. This group has more complex needs, and over their lifetime, will use seven or even more of our products. That's a huge opportunity for our wealth, health, protection, and general insurance businesses.
We also have similar opportunities in Canada and Ireland, albeit at a smaller scale. Of course, we have the brand. This is a powerful asset that gives us a real edge. We are the standout number one U.K. insurance brand, valued at over GBP 4 billion by Brand Finance, and on a par with the U.K. high street banks. Importantly, we are number one for trust and consideration, and that's a huge part of why customers choose us. So to bring this to life with an example, many people are still more likely to go with Aviva on a price comparison website or PCWs, as we call it, even if we're not the cheapest. We're also highly respected by intermediaries, recognized as the best provider of insurance, workplace pensions, and number one for IFA new business. As you know, this is crucial for our growth.
On top of this, we're making it even easier for customers to keep choosing Aviva. We have been investing in our core capabilities, delivering innovative products and services, and transforming customer experience through digital, data, and marketing. We've always remained laser-focused on value for money, delivering on our customer promises. All of this highlights the true power and reach of Aviva. We have the products, we have the customers, we have the brand, and now we have the right capabilities. We're already on a very strong trajectory, and we are accelerating. As I said at the start, we're aiming for over 21 million customers and 5.7 million U.K. customers with multiple policies by 2026. This will grow our top line, improve our operating leverage, and drive performance, directly supporting both our group targets and sustainable, profitable growth over the longer term. That's the high-level view.
I'm now going to hand over to Cheryl to give you more color on our customer progress and our priorities. Over to you, Cheryl.
Thank you, Amanda. So as you've heard, we've been on a journey to double down on our customer efforts, investing in the key capabilities that will allow us to grow and build deeper relationships with our customers. And as you can see, we've driven clear results, increasing the number of customers with two or more policies, the number of customers we can directly engage, and the number using MyAviva. And because of the investment we've been making in digital, those customers have a better experience. And importantly, we're still early in this journey, and there is more to go after. We have three clear priorities that I'll talk you through today. Firstly, growing our customer base. Secondly, serving more of their needs. And thirdly, transforming the experience we offer our customers. Across each of these, we'll be sharing tangible examples, proof that what we're doing is working.
Let's move to the first priority, growing our customer base. Let me start by giving you some more color on our 19.6 million customers across our leading franchises in the U.K., Canada, and Ireland. This encompasses all our individual customers, whether they come to us directly through an intermediary or as an employee of a corporate scheme. In the U.K., we have 16.3 million individual customers. The strength of our customer bases in each of these markets is clear, be it more than six million in general insurance, 4.7 million in workplace, or 4.6 million across health and individual protection. Beyond this, we also serve almost 4,000 large corporates. In Canada, we're the number two general insurer with 2.6 million individual customers and over 1,000 corporate clients. In Ireland, we serve nearly 20% of the working-age population across our GI and life businesses.
As you can see, we're growing right across the business, with new customers continuing to choose Aviva every day. As our strategy is to accelerate and capitalize, we've been growing our customer bases in these businesses. For example, over the last two years, we've been growing retail personal lines, and we've expanded in wealth and health. That's building on already large customer bases and market-leading positions. Importantly, we're applying key capabilities and learnings from the U.K. to further differentiate ourselves for customers in Canada and Ireland. This gives us a real competitive advantage. To drive growth, we've been investing behind new and innovative propositions. Let me give you a few examples of this. Aviva Zero is our next-generation retail motor proposition, which we built in-house and launched 2.5 years ago. Since then, we've sold almost one million policies supporting strong growth in U.K. personal lines.
Workplace is a key component of our wealth business, now with GBP 120 billion in assets. We've further strengthened our position with an enhanced master trust offering, and members in these schemes are up by almost 50% in the last three years. We're not stopping here. We're about to launch our Guided Retirement proposition, which will give customers even more flexibility and security as they transition into retirement. In Canada, our exclusive partnership with market-leading RBC has been going from strength to strength. We've delivered double-digit growth over the last 12 months, supported by a new digital sales journey and expanding to SME customers. Naturally, new customers are important for growth, but deepening relationships with existing customers is also a huge opportunity. Let's now move to how we're serving more customer needs.
As you would expect, given our scale and leading positions across markets in the U.K., this is where we have initially focused our efforts. Today, 41% of our new sales are to existing customers. Putting that in perspective, we would expect that number to be around 1/3 of all our new sales, given our scale alone. But we've gone well beyond this, reinforcing the strength of our brand and the relationships we have with customers. And why is this also important? We know that MPH customers are more valuable. They have lower acquisition costs, they stay with us longer, and buy more from us. For example, retention is nearly 3 percentage points better for these customers in GI. And we can also price their risk more effectively, leading to lower combined ratios. Our MPH customers are also better protected and engaged, which we know leads to better outcomes.
So it's a real win-win for Aviva and for our customers. The same is true for large corporate clients, where over 1/3 have more than one product with us. Our joined-up approach to servicing both employer and employee needs has brought us to the point where today, over 60% of IWR's new sales to large corporates are to existing clients. And we're just getting started here. We are confident that we can build on the momentum of the last two years, driving towards 5.7 million customers with more than one policy by 2026. To give you some insight on how we've been approaching this, we have focused on six high-value areas where we can see real headroom to do more with our customers. These span the breadth of Aviva's business.
We've been using our data like life stage needs, affluence, and behaviors to effectively engage our customers with the right products at the right time. From identifying pension customers when they shop for motor insurance on PCWs to increasing our direct activity in health and wealth, or engaging workplace customers to consolidate their pensions and prepare for retirement with advice. The numbers you can see here are overall percentages of new sales to existing customers by product. And we've shown that by focusing on specific activity, we can take this much further, delivering positive outcomes for customers and driving growth for Aviva. To bring this to life, I'm going to hand over to Doug and Jason. They'll share some examples of how our teams directly support the business and their customers. Over to you, Doug.
Great. Thank you, Cheryl. Hello, everyone. As Cheryl said, our existing customer base is a huge opportunity for Aviva. We're focused on unlocking this with customer and marketing. I'll just touch on a few key examples in IWR. With a customer base of almost five million in workplace, we've been working closely with employers and intermediaries to unlock marketing permissions so that we can meet more of these customers' needs. As a result, we're using our rich data to identify high-propensity customers and, at the right time, trigger highly personalized engagement. This has already been a real success. In advice, we've almost doubled referrals to Succession Wealth this year, generating over GBP 1.5 billion of opportunity, with average investment pot sizes above GBP 300,000. In Direct Wealth, we relaunched our proposition with a new digital wealth experience.
Here, almost 80% of new sales are to existing customers, highlighting the power of connecting our wealth offerings. More recently, we've been piloting Simple Wealth, our hybrid advice offering. All this is growing our business and supporting our wealth ambition. It's not just that. We also see greater loyalty across customers with multiple policies. Those who consolidate are more likely to draw down or purchase an annuity with Aviva, which is a real tailwind for our retirement business. Now, Direct Wealth is another example that demonstrates just what we're capable of. Last year, we launched a new digital sales journey. Last month, we became the first in the market to deliver an online switch journey. We've also been improving trading performance through marketing campaigns with a focus on existing customers. This is working.
Over half of all new sales are to existing customers, higher than other channels and at a much lower acquisition cost. So that's just a few examples of what we're doing in IWR. And we're confident that the opportunity and ability to capitalize on this will only grow. So I'll now pass over to Jason to cover GI and how we come together to deliver for corporates. Jason?
Okay. Thanks, Doug. So like IWR, we have a real opportunity to meet more of our customers' GI needs, especially as the leading general insurer in the U.K. We're working across all of our channels, but one of the most powerful examples that we want to share with you is the work we've done on price comparison websites, PCWs. We can identify Aviva customers when they're shopping for insurance, for motor insurance, in real time. And leveraging the depth of our existing customer data, whether that's behavior or risk data, we can underwrite even more effectively and quickly with the ability to offer these customers beneficial pricing. And we've piloted this approach for the Aviva Online brand on PCWs, which has led to a material increase in sales for our existing customers. From 32% back in 2021, we're now at 42%.
These customers have up to 8 percentage points better retention. So not surprisingly, we're expanding these offerings elsewhere. With the scale and diversification of our model and existing customer base and the ability we have to do something like this, which is unique to Aviva. The story is really powerful for our corporate clients, where we have the benefit of Aviva's waterfront corporate offering. No other player in the U.K. has the breadth that we do across general insurance, protection, health, workplace pensions, and defined benefit de-risking. The opportunity that we have with corporates is only growing. For instance, with the recent acquisition of Probitas, our footprint in the global corporate and specialty space is getting bigger, where it's so we can deliver even more for our corporate customers across the U.K., Ireland, and Canada. Let me just put this into perspective.
There are around 10,500 companies in the U.K. with more than 250 employees. We have an active relationship with over 3,800 of these, and that's more than 1/3 . Of those, 30% have products across two or more of Aviva's business lines. A really good example of this is a FTSE 100 retailer. We have a long-standing relationship, and we're a provider of their group health and protection schemes. This relationship helped us secure their GI motor and home business in 2023, which had been held by a competitor for the previous 20 years. So the employees of this company now have full access to MyAviva and the Aviva experience. The key thing here is that Doug and my teams are working hand in hand, building strong relationships with our intermediaries and delivering holistic service to our customers.
There's more to come in this space. With that, I'll hand back to Cheryl.
Thank you, Jason and Doug. These examples show how we are serving more needs in practice, as well as how much more we can do. A big part of this is down to how we're transforming customer experience and engagement. Let's move on to the third priority. Experience and engagement are a huge focus for us. It's the right thing to do for our customers, and it also means they stay with us longer and buy more policies from Aviva. We're doing this through a focus on continuous improvement to our customer journeys, as well as a complete transformation of the way our customers interact with us through our next-generation MyAviva app. We're making these experiences more personalized in real time through enhanced data and marketing capabilities, while simultaneously exploring new ways to engage our customers.
We know that all these areas are linked, and they're all critically important to deliver a holistic first-class experience. Our strong results here underpin our confidence in powering the next wave of growth at Aviva. When it comes to customer experience, we're never complacent, realizing our ambitions will ultimately come down to how we live up to our promises. So we're always focused on continuous improvement. We know that there are times where we may not get it quite right for customers, and that's exactly why this focus never fades. We've delivered more than 8,000 digital improvements over the last three years. Let me give you some examples from U.K. GI. As well as optimizing journeys for customers to buy and manage products digitally, we've been enhancing our virtual assistant to cover more queries with a higher success rate.
We've already seen an increase in interactions of more than 70%. Supporting digital adoption in this way has made life easier for our customers and more efficient for us. We've also transformed our claims journey and brought repair capabilities in-house with Solus, ensuring excellent service and reducing wait times. This has translated into a material uplift to our Net Promoter Score for claims, which is up over 40 points. We're always listening to and implementing customer feedback. We're making sure we get the right balance for customers across service channels, whether that's digitally or by phone. We're increasing the latter for both Aviva Online and Aviva Zero propositions on PCWs. Bringing this all together, our Net Promoter Score for our U.K. GI business is up by seven points this year alone, which is a real testament to our relentless focus here.
Of course, there are similar examples in IWR, Canada, and Ireland. We have been investing in our digital experience for over a decade now, ahead of our peers. Customer needs are changing more rapidly than ever, with an increasing preference for mobile-first. In June, we rolled out our next-generation MyAviva app. This is a real game changer for customers and for Aviva. Built on native app technology, it will enable us to deliver an even more personalized and engaging experience as our single front door to everything Aviva, a crucial way to deepen our relationship with our customers. Now, using a popular code base, our technology teams also have a broader pool of engineering talent for continued app development. It will be far quicker and easier for us to integrate third-party tools and services. We're already getting very positive feedback.
Online experience score is up an impressive 15 percentage points when compared to the old app. We'll take you through exactly what it's capable of in a moment. We see MyAviva's mobile-first experience across insurance, wealth, and retirement as a real competitive advantage, something that no other insurer can do. The new app will be faster and even more powerful when underpinned by one source of customer data and powerful marketing capabilities. We're in the final stages of bringing together all our data to establish a single golden record for all 16.3 million U.K. customers, a full history that's updated in real time. This makes a huge difference in delivering the best possible experience. When a customer phones us, our agents will be able to see their historical interactions across all our products. We also now have the technology to deliver personalized real-time communications.
This makes our marketing efforts far more efficient. Just to give you our most recent example, we ran a campaign for protection and saw better results across multiple channels. Our quote rate from emails to customers was up 70%, and we had a 60% lower cost per click from digital advertising. With strong core enablers in data and marketing, we can drive greater engagement. We're also developing new digital propositions to take this engagement even further, delivering better customer outcomes and more value for Aviva. I'll share just a few examples of how we're driving this engagement. The first one is MyDrive. Launching as a new feature on MyAviva, we're engaging our customers on safer driving and giving them an opportunity to earn discounts. We're going even further, now working on richer functionality like crash detection and auto claims.
Then we have Aviva Score to engage customers across a range of their needs, from money and health and soon to car and home. Aviva Score uses AI to ask a series of questions to help customers set goals, take actions, and make more informed choices. It's transforming interactions from product-specific to need-specific and also collects huge amounts of data, helping us to create an even richer view of our customers. We've been piloting this for the last year and are already seeing traction. And finally, we have our well-being proposition, a core element of Aviva's health and protection offering. We've already delivered a pilot bringing together physical and mental well-being solutions for several large corporate clients and have seen significant upticks in customer engagement. We're now building this out on MyAviva, and over time, we aim to offer it to all our customers.
Bringing this all together and to help show it in action, we now have a short demo to highlight the fantastic new capabilities of the MyAviva app for our customers. I'm sure you'll see that what we've developed here is much more in line with what you'd expect from the leading banks rather than insurers. Alex Allen, our Digital Product Owner for MyAviva, will take us through this now. Over to you, Alex.
Thanks, Cheryl. As you've heard, our app has been many years in the making and responds to where customers are increasingly choosing to engage for their financial needs on mobile. We've already seen great engagement. In less than four months since launching, we're already coming up to 10 million app logins in total. Our new version introduces a host of features that improve customers' experience and deliver new business opportunities. Let's take a look, starting with the homepage. We've completely reimagined our experience, introducing a brand new design with a modern look and feel organized under insurance, wealth, and retirement. When customers log in, they're shown the most relevant tab first based on their customer profile, helping to quickly and easily find the most relevant content. Next, we have a brand new hub for notifications, which you can find at the top as soon as you log in.
They offer a swift summary of key tasks that require action, personalized offers, and opportunities to engage with relevant content. Here you can see we're promoting our Pension Snapshot service. With one tap, customers can look into their pension's annual performance and see what it could mean for their retirement in a rich, engaging infographic. One in two of our pension customers have engaged with the service when offered, with almost half choosing to go into our MyAviva app and take action with their pension. As I scroll through my other notifications, I might have a renewal coming up, like this one for motor insurance. Again, with a single tap, I can go straight into my policy details, compare my new price to my existing one, and take action.
We can serve more needs by showing them personalized offers across insurance, wealth, and retirement based on their profile, products they hold, and previous interactions, showcasing the breadth of all we can offer. Pension savings and investment customers can now find a single view of their wealth when they log in. This year, we've introduced Find and Combine for Direct Wealth, an award-winning feature that helps customers locate and consolidate their old pensions. Customers can also find Simple Wealth, our hybrid advice experience, which now includes functionality to apply for ISAs, as well as seeking investment guidance. And we've enhanced our servicing journeys for our workplace members too. With a single tap, they can monitor performance of their products with a new interactive individual fund performance view.
We've also introduced a number of other journeys to help customers take control of their money, including managing beneficiaries, changing retirement age, or making payments. We've also updated all our insurance journeys across motor, home, travel, health, and more to a brand new design. Customers can find details about their cover, make changes, and claim quickly and easily. These journeys have proven to be extremely popular with customers since launch, increasing our satisfaction score for motor and app by 20 percentage points. As customers take more products with us, they'll receive the same brilliant experience everywhere, driving consistency and simplicity. Our app also features MyDrive, a motor telematics proposition that rewards safer drivers with a discount at renewal. After completing 400 mi of driving, customers receive a score based on their braking, cornering, acceleration, and other factors.
It's built to be mobile-first, taking advantage of tech that's only available on a smartphone to deliver a great experience. Customers have already recorded 2.2 million trips, resulting in thousands of customers receiving a discount of 10% on average. In a product category with few reasons to engage beyond the need to renew and claim, MyDrive provides compelling insights to come back every week that encourage both greater engagement and safer driving too. All of this is founded on core security features like multi-factor authentication, core engagement features like pre-population, and communication features like push notifications. These can be reused across the experience, delivering best-in-class foundations for every product and every proposition. As Cheryl mentioned, our app will become even more powerful as it becomes underpinned by a single source of customer data combined with powerful marketing capability.
With a constantly updated customer profile, we can predict the next best action for every customer. By leveraging new marketing technologies, we're able to communicate with customers in a personalized way at the right moment and serve more of their needs. The shift to a modern platform also allows us to continually evolve features, functionality, and propositions. We're not just meeting expectations. We're setting new standards. MyAviva is where we meet and engage with customers, becoming their trusted financial partner at every step of their lives. Now I'm going to hand back to Amanda for final thoughts and reflections. Thank you.
Thanks, Alex. Brilliant job. So everything you've just seen is already available to all of our customers that are registered on MyAviva on the app. And we think it's the best in the market. As Cheryl said, our MyAviva journey began with the first app over a decade ago. So this is really the culmination of many years of hard work. And I'm really, really proud of what she and the team have delivered: market-leading technology that positions us incredibly well for the future. So before moving on to Q&A, let me share some final reflections. Over the last four years, we've transformed our performance. We've executed against our strategy. We've delivered quarter after quarter and do exactly what we said we would. More customers mean stronger profits and more value for shareholders.
With the investments we've made, we now have all the right foundations to accelerate toward our ambitions and beyond. We have the customers, we have the products, we have a leading brand, and we have the customer experience. That makes Aviva uniquely advantaged to be the go-to brand for customers. So I'm sure you can see now why Cheryl, Doug, Jason, myself, Alex, the rest of the team are really, really excited about the future. And I'm sure you have plenty of questions. I know it's not the normal presentation that we do, but we're now going to move to a Q&A. I'm going to invite Cheryl, Doug, and Jason onto the stage. It's quite cozy up here. And we'll take any questions that you may have. Right, let me just get myself some glasses on here so I can actually see what's going on.
Okay, so who's got questions? Andy.
Great, thank you. Andrew Baker, Goldman Sachs. So three, please, if that's okay. Well, I think it's three. First one, the 8.8 million sort of marketing permissions that you have, that's still quite a low number in terms of your total customer numbers. What can that number get to? And I guess, what are the constraints from that eventually becoming 100%? Second one, just interested in your sort of how connected your targets are for the customer numbers to your GBP 2 billion operating profit target. So really just trying to get a sense of if you were to, let's say, you achieve 23 million instead of 21, or your multiple policies were significantly higher, should we expect upgrades to the GBP 2 billion? Just how connected are those is the question.
Then thirdly, clearly the front end, you've done a lot of work in terms of the app, and it all looks very impressive. How developed is your back end in terms of your sort of internal systems in terms of data pooling? And do you have a, I guess, a single view of customer internally, or is it still by policies? And how do you think you compare versus peers there? That would be really helpful. Thank you.
Yeah, okay, thank you for those questions. We weren't expecting the second one, obviously. So if I take one and, sorry, Cheryl, if you take one and three, and I'll take two. So do you want to start with the marketing permissions?
Yeah, so we're actually delighted with our 8.8 million marketing permissions for two reasons, really. One is the increase we've made from 2020, so we're up almost about 75%. And I'll talk in a little minute about how we did that. But secondly, we're at 60% marketing permissions of our eligible customers. And that's actually a really, really good average for insurance and financial services generally. Just to give you a bit of a flavor of how we approach this, so there were three levers. One was we looked at the contact rules that we had had in place historically, where we sometimes limited ourselves from communicating with customers when actually there was a legitimate interest to do so. And we took more of an overall One Aviva view as opposed to signed up by business.
Secondly, through investing in customer matching on the data side, we resolved a lot of issues we had had, which allowed us to communicate with customers, and then they took up their permissions. And then thirdly, we've made it much easier for customers to tell us what they want to do. So we've made it clearer at registration, for example, around how customers give us permissions. Just one point in terms of where we're going to go. So we're actually happy with this level. We will take a continuous improvement approach to this. So for example, when the AIG customers come on board, we'll look at that. We can probably increase around another one million, but we're not pushing ourselves to do that. We're doing it in the right way, step by step.
If I can, just to give one indicator of why it's so important that we communicate with our customers. So we did a lot of work with Doug's team around unlocking some workplace customers. And we communicated with them around pension consolidation, which obviously we know leads to better customer outcomes. And we had two groups, one of which we had just unlocked about 500,000 customers from workplace. And the other ones were customers that we had had the permissions and we've been communicating with. And what we saw is the ones that we had just unlocked, we had an 83% higher rate of those people engaging with us and consolidating their pensions, which for me really brings home that customers want us to engage with them. So that's why we'll keep going on permissions.
Do you want to pick a single view of customer at the same time?
Yes. So I touched on the fact that we've improved our ability to customer match and manage our customer identity, which in financial services is so hard. It doesn't sound terribly interesting, but getting your one single customer identity is a huge job. So we've been investing heavily in that, which has led to an uplift in marketing permissions, and also all of our customers can now see MyAviva. John, my colleague, and I have been looking at how can we really set ourselves up for the future. And we actually will be making operational our single customer view that you asked about by the end of this year. We're already in a parallel run period. We're obviously going through several weeks, months of testing before we make that go live. But we're there. Should I say we've done it?
Well, now you've said it. So I think the fact is that so many people have talked about this for so long, we're actually there. So I think that's very, very meaningful. So thanks for that, Cheryl. On your point around the GBP 2 billion operating profit and is there upside? So obviously today is not about setting any new financial targets. I think what you've heard today just underpins that confidence that we have about the delivery of the targets and that sustainable growth profitably. I mean, the 21 million customers and 5.7 million multi-policy customers, I think that's in our current plan. That is what we said we would do. But ultimately, the priority for us is to hit those group targets. And we have three group targets. They are still in place, but we have huge confidence because of what we've delivered that we can meet those.
Thanks for the questions. Who's got another question? Larissa.
Thank you, Larissa van Deventer from Barclays. Question on general insurance and the FCA this morning announcing that they plan to look at the increases. Can you give us some insight as to your thoughts on that and specifically how big the potential impact could be on maintaining healthy premium increases and marrying that to claims inflation? Thank you.
Yeah, so obviously there's been two announcements this morning. So maybe because I'm sure we'll get it, we may as well just pick up both points here. So on motor premiums, I mean, I think we've been quite strong in terms of our view on this. We have seen significant increase in supply chain costs. We've seen theft claims go up. The average cost of a theft vehicle is at a record high. I think we've invested heavily in terms of making it more efficient for our customers.
We've just spoken about some of the things that we do. I don't see that the market is particularly making huge profits out of motor insurance. We've made that very clear. 12% of every motor insurance premium is, in fact, insurance premium tax, and we shouldn't forget that. I think if we look and we base insurance premiums back to 2017, and you look at the average price of motor insurance premiums in 2017, and then inflation base it to where it is today, it's about GBP 12 more, something like that. There are not significant increases if you allow for inflation. I think we respect, obviously, that the government is going to do the review. I think the wording of the review is that they will look at all the factors that have led to spiraling costs. I think it's an 18-month review.
So I think there's going to be a lot of work clearly that will be done before that. But just to be very, very clear, we do not believe that this is a market that is making excess profit. We see that the prices have increased for very good reasons. And that is the stance that we will take, and we will take it very strongly. On premium finance, Jason, did you just want to pick up thoughts on that?
Yeah, if I just build on the last point there, I mean, premiums have started going down this year.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
So we've seen that in the market. You see the market data there. This is a hyper-competitive market. Margins are historically very low. Last 10 years, the industry hasn't made money. But we're very open to working with whoever, different stakeholders, and coming through and putting forward our recommendations around road safety, taking out cost and fraud, reducing inflation, reducing bodily injury costs. We have a laundry list of those things that we would love to see to drive claims costs down because we have a very, very clear view on what that would do in premiums. Just on APRs, I mean, look, if you look at market data, Aviva is at the lower quartile, the lower end of the spectrum on APRs. We typically charge about 7% of premium for financing.
That works out to about 14%-15% in terms of an APR, which we think is a very fair cost for monthly premiums. Monthly premiums are important to be able to offer. It increases the accessibility and the affordability of insurance. So we're very happy with where Aviva sits on that space. We've looked at this. We know others have looked at this. The government's looked at it so far. So we'll work with anybody, but our numbers are quite transparent.
Thank you. Yep.
Thank you very much. It's Farooq Hanif from JP Morgan. Just on the Aviva Wealth Direct proposition, can you talk a little bit more about your ambition there and who you're going to target and how you're going to market it? Because obviously, it's a competitive area. Are you just really relying on kind of your in-force customer base or existing MyAviva users? For example, I use it. I've got lots of Aviva products. I don't use Wealth. I mean, am I your sort of target customer base, for example? Secondly, related to that, you talked about investment guidance. Are you going to be providing kind of Guided Portfolios, different risk spectrums? One of your competitors does this, portfolio risk one to ten sort of thing. Then the third question is, what's the overlap between the 8.8 million and the 11 million customers that have one product? Thanks.
Okay, thank you. Doug, would you like to pick up the first two? Should I have the third one?
Yeah, the Direct wealth. So obviously, we've been investing further in our Direct Wealth opportunity the last couple of years. We're very pleased with the progress that we're making. And we have ambitions to continue to build that proposition. We've seen really good success. So if we look across our customer base, I think we did an exercise. We recognize there's about one million mass affluent customers across insurance. We knew, for example, that they hold about GBP 600 billion of personal wealth, and some of them have a higher propensity to buy wealth products. So using the data and the marketing activity that Cheryl talked about, we were able to access those customers in a more personalized way. And we've seen some great results. So clearly, we think by further engaging with our existing customers, we can have a lower acquisition cost.
That's going to help us position in Direct Wealth. But we are still interested in attracting new clients. So you would have seen we launched the Direct Wealth ad earlier this year just to build the brand and the awareness. So all of that's going to contribute to the growth of Direct Wealth.
The Guided Portfolios?
Sorry, what was the second?
Guided Portfolios.
Guided Portfolios.
Yeah. You're saying, are we going to offer the Guided Portfolios within the Direct Wealth proposition?
[audio distortion]. Sorry. You provide investment guidance. I mean, you talk about that in the presentation.
Yeah, the Simple Wealth. So we've got stages. So we've launched the first, we call it sort of version 1.0. We have plans to get to 4.0. So the first version of the Simple Wealth is focused on ISAs. We actually think the benefit of this comes when we're going to introduce a SIPP journey next, and then followed by a new retirement journey. That guidance will include investment guidance and so forth. So we have plans to sort of launch that over the next two, three years.
I guess we're also seeing the regulatory environment open up as far as that is concerned. The regulator is much more keen to offer more guided advice propositions, which I think is a sort of tailwind there. Cheryl, on the customer numbers?
So there is a bit of a skew towards the multi-product holders in the marketing permissions. Clearly, you'd expect that because they're more engaged customers. It's not huge, though. It's quite representative of the base overall. I think what's probably behind your question is how engaged people are when they take out a second product. And we had an example in the presentation where we see that when customers become multi-product holders, they are almost three times as likely to register and use MyAviva. And why that's important for us is in terms of customer outcomes. We know that customers who regularly engage with their products will have better outcomes because they're better informed. So that is really important to us.
Farooq, of course, you're a target customer. In fact, everybody in this room, just to be very clear, is a target customer. On the way out, we'll show you where the new app is. Who's got another view?
Hi, thank you. I'm William Hawkins from KBW. Thanks for some really interesting slides. Just first of all, the two figures that you have put out, north of 21 and north of 5.7 million customers, can you just talk a bit more about how you've arrived at those numbers? Again, you could sort of say, well, it seems to me about 5% growth per year. You could be arguing, after all the investment you've made, you should be expecting much more kind of a takeoff. On the other hand, I appreciate this is probably quite demanding to achieve on the ground. So I'm just wondering why you arrived at those numbers rather than higher or maybe even lower. Then secondly, on slide 20, I'm trying to the very different new sales to existing customers between motor and home.
I think that may have something to do with the overall churn in the market. But I just wondered if you could help me understand why motor is so low and home is so high and how we think about the outlook for those two numbers over time. Do they both converge at a higher level or something else, please? And then lastly, not to be too open-ended in the question, but can you talk a bit more about how you think your customers think about cost versus everything else? I mean, I think there tends to be a truism in the insurance land that it's all very well and good to talk about all the other stuff, but ultimately, it's cost that decides whether or not the customer is going to tip over.
And also, if you take the regulatory angle, I mean, an awful lot of Consumer Duty work seems to take the attitude that we're talking about value for the customer, but the regulator is actually just talking about cost. They want it all to be cheap. So I'm wondering if you could just talk a little bit about how you think customers think about cost versus the other stuff and how the regulator thinks about cost versus other stuff.
Okay, thank you. Cheryl, are you okay with those questions? Please bring Jason and Doug in as necessary.
Yeah, perfect. So in terms of our 21 million and the increase there, really, this is where the two elements that we've talked to you about today come together. So we're actually increasing our MPH by, I think it's 14%. So clearly, when we're meeting our strategic aim of meeting more of our customer needs, that's not going to be reflected in the overall 21 million. And there's other factors at play, such as it's individual customers we're talking about here. So other factors that would increase our overall growth, such as growth in group protection, lives covered, etc., isn't included in that 21 million. Our MPH target, that is an ambitious target. If you look back, that has been very, very slow moving. So it hovered around the high fours for a long time.
We actually saw a decline with COVID, as you'll have seen on the slide in 22. So to move that, and you did recognize that, to move that metric takes a lot of focused effort, which we've seen from all of the businesses today. So both of those are ambitious, but very achievable targets for us, given the capability that we've built and the focus from the business.
The difference between motor and home.
Yeah. Okay, you go. No, you go. I'll have a go at it. I'll have a look at it. Can you go?
Yeah, yeah, no, give you a chance to take a break. I mean, the difference is quite simple, really. We find that most customers who purchase through price comparison websites have lower than average sales to existing customers because the population of people that are buying motor insurance is a broad selection of the U.K. population. And so there's less overlap with our existing customers, number one. Number two, PCWs have large volumes of customers going through them. So you apply the larger volumes and the overall kind of it looks and feels like the U.K. average population. Again, lower starting point, the motor. But what tends to happen is also home follows motor.
Once we have somebody as a motor customer, we have details, we have renewal details, and the home generally follows the motor, which is why you would see because the starting population for the home customers has already got a lot of existing motor customers in it, whereas the starting population for motor customers is the U.K. population. So it's a bit more sparse in terms of as a starting point. Does that answer your question?
And on the point around cost, I mean, please chip in if there's anything more to add. But yeah, of course, cost is a primary consideration for many customers. There's no doubt about that. But we also know that the strength of the brand, the customer trust that we've built up, and the experience does actually make a real difference to customers as well. And they tell us as much. So we're number one with a 10-point gap to our nearest competitor for financial stability. That matters to customers. And we're number one for quality products and services. And that's been proven in the YouGov reputation tracker. And many products that we have are five-star Defaqto rated. We also know, and I think Cheryl touched on this, promoters are twice as likely to buy a second product from us compared to detractors within a 12-month period.
It is really important that we invest in the customer experience. Just to give you a flavor, some of the things that we as an ExCo do, we have customer listening sessions. It's quite a brilliant experience where the customers don't know that we're the ExCo of Aviva, and they're talking about their experiences with Aviva. We've done that now quite a few times. I think, Doug, you've done it with your team maybe three or four times. We've done it as an ExCo. The board are going to do it as well. It's really, really interesting listening to customers and your expectation of what you think is going to be important to them and how many, whether it's younger, middle-aged, or older customers say, "Aviva, we trust you.
We want to be with you." And we saw that there were other brands on maybe the price comparison websites, but we chose you because we trust you. And we expect you, therefore, to be there when there is a claim. And it's really, really important. They're anecdotal, but it's been really consistent in the sessions that we've run. And it's very humbling, actually, to listen to that and how important they think their insurer actually is, whether it's the home or the motor, and particularly, obviously, when it comes to their health and their pension. So it's been a lived experience for us to listen to that. So I think that's just more anecdotal. And I know you all like loads of facts, but that's just something that we've experienced. Andrew.
Hello, it's Andrew Crean from Autonomous. Three questions if I can. In terms of product, if you had more product, you'd be able to cross-sell more. And the obvious products which you're missing are in the banking, retail banking area, both core banking and lending of sorts. Your thoughts on that would be interesting. Secondly, I think you said you spent GBP 300 million in the last three years enhancing customers. Could you talk a bit about where you are in that journey and actually talk a bit about the areas where your NPS scores are not okay and where you need to do more work? And then thirdly, I was just looking at the 4.7 million workplace customers. I mean, realistically, how much do you think you can tap that and mine that for consolidation? There's so many people who are trying to consolidate.
I suspect that retail customers are much more likely to consolidate with their sort of retail platform than they are with you. Can you tell us a bit about that?
Yeah, okay. Thank you. So Cheryl, do you have an insight on the difference between banking and insurance in terms of the cross-sell and those products?
Yeah, I mean, clearly, it's a much easier start point for banking. We see that not just with meeting more needs, but also in terms of digital engagement. The current account just makes everything so much easier to start off with. From a digital point of view, though, I think the trajectory is very similar in that what we did at NatWest and what the successful banks in terms of digital transformation for customers have done is look at what are the product servicing needs that our customers really want to see. And we've spent a lot of time broadening that in MyAviva. So when we started this off a few years ago, less than 50% or around about 50% only digital needs that customers had in terms of product management could be done digitally.
And now we've reversed that, and it's 90% will be up to almost 100% next year. And what the banks did then, it was once they hit that, once they had that capability, they then moved on to looking at the engagement through the very successful budgeting personal finance management tools, for example. And that's where we are. We're now ready to move into that engagement. So the propositions that we talked to you about today in terms of the digital engagement, so MyDrive, the well-being proposition, and Aviva Score, that's our way of tapping into and building this engagement.
Comparing with a bank, I must admit, when we looked at Aviva Score, which is the AI-powered way of questioning our customers so they understand their level of protection coming from banking, I was a little bit skeptical because I did think, why would people do this with us when they could do it through personal finance management with their bank? But we've seen really good take-up. So I think because of our brand and because of the breadth of the areas, we do have that right to play.
So on.
Oh, sorry. I was going to say as to whether we're going to introduce more products that banks have, I'll leave Amanda to talk about that.
I think we've got enough to work on at the minute. I mean, so in terms of the GBP 300 million investment, so what you've seen is us invest in the growth and the customer experience. And we're well on our way to having worked our way through that amount. I mean, if you think about that investment to deliver Single View of Customer, the new app, the new MyAviva, new generation app, these are significant investments. They are the sort of, if you'd like, the culmination. But underneath all of that, the foundational work that needs to be done to do the systems connectivity, I mean, that is not without challenge. And when other people say they're going to create an app, creating an app is one thing. Being able to deliver all of that experience and be joined across the whole organization is another.
In terms of NPS and where there's more work to do, maybe Jason and I could draw on you to say, I mean, I think this moves all the time, Andrew. In reality, the fact is that you get a claims surge and NPS can move. And it's about how do we respond? Or we've seen in recent weeks, people ringing up more about their pension because they're asking about those sort of things. And as a consequence of that, NPS can move. But maybe, Jason, if you can talk about where you think there's more work to do. And then, Doug, maybe you can answer the question around workplace pension customers and is it really an opportunity?
Yeah, I mean, actually, this is an area where the past can be a predictor of the future really nicely. So we made significant changes in the claims area. We've had a big claims transformation program going on under Waseem and the team's guidance. And what we saw is the claims tNPS has gone from the high single digits into the 50s over the space of 12-18 months. And that was a lot of focus on improving claims processes. And we spent a lot of money to make sure that we had the right people answering the phones at the right time. And the read across is earlier in the year, we put 120 extra people on the phone, spent GBP 2 million doing that.
So the really interesting observation is while we have a number of people that will buy from us digitally and interact with us digitally, at the point of a claim, actually everybody likes to speak to somebody because that moment of vulnerability and vulnerability can mean any range of different things for people at the moment of a claim. So putting more people on the phone and just investing in that and making it easier for people to switch their interactions from digital to telephony or vice versa, really, there's a very straight correlation between that and improvements in our tNPS. And we know there's more to go at. We can do the same in terms of people coming in the door looking for quotes, kind of queries with quotes if it's not straightforward. Obviously, we have a part of our business like Quotem eh appy.
We want that to be as digital, low touch as possible. But the rest of our portfolio of products, we want to have optionality of how customers can engage with us. And as I say, that correlation between what we did in claims and putting people on the phones and the very, very quick improvement that we saw in NPS is something that we can play out across a number of different areas.
Thank you. Doug, the opportunity on workplace, is it real?
Yes, well, definitely. I mean, look, we know that consolidating pensions provides customers with better value and more control of the retirement savings. So we do a lot to make sure that we're increasing awareness for customers. And a lot of what we talked about today about using our data capabilities, targeting people, identifying customers that might have a higher propensity to consolidate, the launch of our Find and Combine journey, so investing in the digital journeys to make it easy for customers. And we've seen already this year, it's GBP 1.3 billion of pension consolidation into that business. And I think that compares very well with if you look externally. I won't mention names, but you can look externally. I think that's a big number. That's increased 41% year-over-year. We believe we can increase it even more with targeting.
You realize we've added 350,000 new customers since 2022. As we bring in new customers, we have further opportunities to get the transfers in and do the consolidation. Once they do consolidate with us, we know that they're three times more likely to draw down with Aviva. They're 1.9 times more likely to buy a GI product. It's a huge opportunity for us. I think what we've invested in and how we make it easy for the customer, that will continue moving forward.
Absolutely. Thank you.
Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. Nasib Ahmed from UBS. First question on, you've got a target of top quartile efficiency. Given what I've heard today, it seems like you're kind of getting to us best in class. Are you kind of aiming for number one? And what are your kind of within the top quartile, what are your peers? Are they the same ones that I see on slide seven? Secondly, on kind of MyAviva registered users, why is it that there's only 1/3 of them? And how are you going to improve that and bring that up? And then do you track the number of active users? So I think what you've given us is the registered users. How many of them are actually active? And what is the metric that you're tracking on that? And then finally, on the app itself, is Succession Wealth on it?
I think it might be a little bit difficult because it's face-to-face. And then how many of the Heritage customers are on it? Because again, it might be difficult given legacy systems.
I think that might be five questions. I think that's definitely a record in terms of number of questions. And we were thinking that there might not be so many questions. Right. So I'll pick up the one on top quartile efficiency. Cheryl, if you can pick up the MyAviva and the tracking of active users. And then Doug, I'll leave you to pick up Succession Wealth and Heritage. Is that okay?
Yeah, yeah.
Right. So in terms of the efficiency, obviously efficiency is one of our four strategic priorities. And I think we spoke at the half year. We showed you the efficiency ratios. And I think we also showed you that in many parts of the GI businesses, we were already up a quartile and we were in a really, really good place on that. And at the full year, Doug, we talked about the deals that Doug had done to make the IWR and our business improve even further on efficiency. It's already on a steady trajectory. So the other area here, I guess, which is relevant, which is the acquisition cost. Obviously, the acquisition cost of a new customer is more than an acquisition cost of a customer that you already have.
And I don't think you should really underplay that in terms of if 40% of your new sales are coming from existing customers. That is making our marketing efficiency. And Cheryl will take all the credit for this with the team. Definitely much more efficient than it was before. And that will continue to improve. But that is built into the efficiency ratios because obviously the way that we've brought the organization together is that the teams are working as one Aviva. They're working together. And I think you've seen that in action this morning. We see the opportunity. It's not GI to GI. It's GI to IWR and vice versa. There are huge opportunities here for us. And you'll see that coming through in the efficiency ratios. But just to stress, obviously, no more new targets today.
But this all gives us the confidence of delivering what we said we would, which is a very efficient organization. We're sort of laser-focused on that. On MyAviva, the numbers, Cheryl, and the active users.
Yeah. So in terms of whether this is a good number, again, we are pleased with the progress that we've made. So it used to be that less than half of our eligible customers were users. And now we're well over 60%. As you said, of course, we want to keep improving that because we know what MyAviva brings to our customers. What we focused on recently to improve that and what we'll continue to do is we're doing much more marketing to customers to explain the benefits of MyAviva. And we're doing that on a much more regular basis than we did before. We've improved the registration process itself. We've really honed in on that. And now on our new registration process, we actually have an online experience. Customers who are happy with the process, it's well over 80%. Now, that's a good level.
We've also opened up a process whereby our people, when they're on the phone with customers, can register the customer by phone. That's a really nice blend for us. That's proven really successful. Your question about are these real? Is the number real? Yes, it is. So this is actually customers who have used MyAviva. So it's not just that they've registered. They've come in and they've used it at least once. I think, again, underneath your question, it's about how many people are using it regularly. We have one million customers who are using it at least six times a year.
Thanks, Cheryl. Doug, did you wat to pick up the Succession Wealth and Heritage?
Yeah. I mean, Succession Wealth obviously is an independent advice business. So they're not on MyAviva. Of course, if a Succession Wealth customer happened to have a motor policy or something, then they'd be on the app. But it's not. On the Heritage, some of the policy, some of the Heritage customers are on MyAviva. You would have known we did announce earlier in the year the extensions we're doing with Diligenta and FNZ. Part of that obviously drives efficiency in the business. But another part is we want to make sure that all customers receive the same experience that we're talking about. So by moving customers onto those more modern platforms, they will be able to go on to MyAviva. And all the things that we're talking about here will be applicable to those customers. So that's in the roadmap.
So even more opportunities when that happens. Okay. I recognize we've heard it. So Dom, and then I'll come to you.
Thank you. Dominic O'Mahony, BNP Paribas Exane. Just two questions, if that's all right. So the app is great. Thank you for the demo. Really interesting. I'm conscious, presumably a lot of your customers, and presumably even more of the value is in the slightly older category. What's your experience of digital penetration in that segment? How are you thinking about the cross-sell opportunity there? What are the tools, innovations that you're using for maybe the slightly less digital savvy like me? And then the second question is just, can you give us a sense of what percentage of your business is Aviva brand rather than, say, non-Aviva owned brands like Quotemeh appy and RBC? And then, I guess, related, can you market across those? So if you have, say, a Quotemeh appy customer, are they able to service that through the MyAviva app?
Can you pick up an RBC customer and, say, underwrite them cleverly? Thank you.
Okay. Thank you. Do you want to take those, Cheryl?
Yes. So in terms of we've had quite a few questions.
It was the older category.
We have the penetration is slightly lower, but less than you would expect. And I think over the last few years in financial services, we've seen that across the board. And what's particularly interesting, your question around the multi-product holders, they actually, for us, skew older. So when we look at our overall base, and clearly the Aviva customer base is slightly older than population. And then when we look at our MPH customers within that, there is a skew, as ever. It depends on what age you're considering older. But in the 45-54+, we will have a higher percentage in the multi-product holder base that we have. Then secondly, on Aviva brands.
You know, I don't have that number to the top of my head, but the vast majority of the highest percentage will be Aviva brands. We've grown, as you saw, the Aviva Zero stats in the last, well, that's 900,000+ policies, which is not far from one million policies and not far from one million customers. So that's a significant number of our customer base. But across all of the other way to look at it is if I think about Quotemeh appy, which is an Aviva brand, obviously Aviva isn't prominent. And then our partnerships, just the size and scale of those is smaller than we would have today. But I would say at least 50%-60% of our retail business will be Aviva brands.
Yeah, more. And I'll take the question around how we engage with those customers then. So we don't have the Quotemeh appy customers in MyAviva. And that's a conscious choice because we have a brand strategy that Quotemeh appy is there for a reason. So it would be wrong to put them together. However, there is digital servicing available. I actually think Quotemeh appy started quite early on this road. So there is digital servicing, just not in MyAviva. Again, because the customer has chosen a brand, we don't then want to push another. Clearly, that wouldn't be in line with our overall brand strategy or just good practice. But what we do pay a lot of attention to is we've started with a Quotemeh appy motor and home to look at how that works. And we're having quite a lot of success there.
The other thing that we do, and we do this only after we've looked really carefully at the customer so we know that it's the right thing for the customer, is, you know, about next best action in terms of when you use your data to look at next, so basically you're churning your data. And you go, the next best action for this customer is to look at a home policy or is for them to check in on their pension. And then that drives our marketing. Especially during the cost of living crisis, we looked at, do we have Aviva customers that look like we have data models that showed us we thought they were going to lapse? And in that case, it's next best brand.
Then we would look at, do we have a better offer, a better proposition within Aviva to serve the need of that customer in a way that works for them? But we only do that when we're absolutely sure it's what the customer would want.
Okay. Thank you.
I think, sorry, you also mentioned RAC. Did you? Oh, RBC. Sorry. I heard RAC.
In Canada, we don't have the app in Canada. Obviously, the brand, Tracy is here, the CEO of Canada as well. Sorry, I should have mentioned that earlier. Not yet is what she's saying. But I mean, in terms of the Canadian market, much less digital than the U.K. market. And so I think there is enough time. But clearly, the learnings are shared right across the pond. So question here.
Thanks for taking my question. It's Abid Hussain from Panmure Liberum. Two questions. The first one is on pension pot consolidation. Just wondering if you see customers moving pension pots away from you. I'm assuming that is the case. Just wondering if you can give any color on who are they moving to and if you've seen any change in that, any reversal in that since the new MyAviva app features that you've introduced. And then the second question is on the multiple policyholder growth target of 14%. Can you give us a sense of how much premium or revenue you think that translates to, please?
Okay. Doug, do you want to pick up the first one? Cheryl, the second?
Yeah. I mean, as you can imagine, we do monitor very closely. We do know where pension consolidation is happening and what competitors it may be going to. We are actually a net beneficiary of pension consolidation. That continues. I'm not going to disclose who the competitors go. We do know who they are. Then we can look at activity and other things that we can do around that. I think the pension tracing and the Find and Combine tool that we've done, we've had some very good success with that. The intro is consistent with the app. That will definitely continue.
We're not going to give the premium hugs. You wouldn't expect us to break it down. But I think genuinely, you will see it really depends on the six categories that Cheryl was talking about, which proportion comes from which. And we're still quite early days on some of that. Are there any final questions? I think most people have one here. And then that'll be the last question. Thank you.
Thanks, Alex [audio distortion] Citi. I just had a question on PCW and the growth that you've got there. Obviously, a lot of growth in GI. I'm just wondering about how you're translating some of the data you've got from the existing customers and being able to give them an existing price. Are you investing that into growth or are you taking a little bit and seeing the value to Aviva there? And then also, obviously, claims experience and customer experience is one of the drivers of retention. It seems like you've done a lot over the course of the last few years, whether it be claims transformation or virtual assistant interactions. How are you thinking about further improving that journey there?
Okay. Jason?
Yeah. I'll go. So just in terms of PCW growth, I mean, I think there's a really simple way that we look at this is we have more data on existing customers. So that additional data equates to a better understanding of the risk. That equates to a better pricing. That equates to better retention. That equates to MPH, subsequently improvements in MPH, subsequently. And overall, across that suite of products that we write, we have an overall lower acquisition cost and lower ongoing servicing cost. So all of those things, that's really attractive in terms of an avenue of growth for us across the group. But certainly in GI, with those kind of retention and additional sales opportunities and the numbers that we're seeing, we are continuing to invest in that. We have other new growth vehicles as well.
The startup of Aviva Zero, two years ago, 2.5 years ago, was a standalone startup that we wanted that has generated significant growth. So I look across the GI portfolio. There's a number of growth drivers. Retention is a good growth strategy in itself. So we have a number of them improving, constantly improving and going after MPH is a really good one. And one of the things that we've spent quite a lot of time on, and Cheryl is an absolute expert on, is we've picked the two or more points of MPH improvement because that's where we get the real value. We could put three or more or four or more, but two or more is where we see the really marked improvements in retention, right, and the additional opportunities and the improvements in the profile of the customers.
Just, you asked about claims and customer experience and journey improvements. I mean, actually, the answer is really simple. We are constantly investing in customer journey improvements. The focus the team has is pragmatic improvements in customer experience. So whether that's the proposition, the features of the proposition, whether that's parts of the claims journey, whether that's how people interact with us in first notice of loss through to subsequent claims notifications, there's a lot of people in Aviva across not just GI, but looking at the customer journey and picking pain points and issues and areas for improvement all the time. That's a very fluid experience that we have in the company.
Okay. Thank you. So look, we really appreciate you coming in this morning. There were a lot more questions than we were expecting. That's really good news. I mean, hopefully, you see how important this is to us, how much we've invested, what that's delivering, and how it helps our sort of unique position in the market. But obviously, the team will be happy to follow up. I guess we'll speak to you in a few weeks for our quarterly results. We're very much looking forward to it. Thank you to all of the team and to Alex, who I think did a brilliant job. Really well done, Alex. Thank you very much.