PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release - 02/26/2001

AXA Group To Report Year-end 2000 Earnings And Key Financial Targets In Conference Call
Management From AXA And Major Subsidiaries Will Participate

PARIS-AXA Group will report earnings for the full year 2000 on Wednesday, March 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Paris (11:30 a.m. in New York).

Senior management from AXA's largest operating units will join AXA CEO Henri de Castries in a conference call at 6:30 p.m. in Paris (12:30 p.m. in New York) following the earnings release. In the conference call and Webcast, AXA will also lay out its key financial targets for the next three to five years for the Group.

Live Webcast

Access the audio presentation and PowerPoint slides through the provided link: http://www.axa.com

• Click on Investors Conference Presentation.
• Choose a media player for audio.

The Webcast replay will be available for 30 days after the conference call. The corresponding slides from the presentation will also be available after the event. Any questions about the content of this presentation should be directed to Gregory Wilcox in Investor Relations (212) 314-4040 in New York or (33) 1 40 75 48 85 in Paris.

All information regarding the year-end 2000 results-press release, slide presentation, appendix and Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A)-will be available on AXA's Web site at 5:30 p.m. Paris time (11:30 a.m. in New York). Those investors who would like to receive these documents via e-mail should contact the AXA Investor Relations Department.

About AXA

AXA Group is one of the world's largest international financial services companies. AXA's operations are diverse geographically, with operations principally in Western Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific area. In the United States, AXA is represented through its holdings in AXA Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries: Equitable Life Assurance Society, AXA Advisors, Equitable Distributors and Alliance Capital Management. AXA has approximately *Euro 894 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2000 and reported revenues of about **69 billion Euros for the year 2000. The AXA ordinary share is listed and trades under the same symbol on the Paris Stock Exchange and on the SEAQ International in London. The AXA American Depositary Share (ADS) is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol AXA. For more information, visit www.axa.com.

*Includes Sanford C. Bernstein and Nippon Dantai, but excludes DLJ. **Excludes DLJ, includes Sanford C. Bernstein.