Assuria N.V.

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What it is

Assuria N.V. is the largest insurance company in Suriname; in 2012 it became the first fully Surinamese financial institution to expand internationally, establishing a subsidiary in Guyana.

The group’s holding company sits above a web of subsidiaries covering life insurance, general (property and casualty) insurance, health insurance, investment management, and real estate — in Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and now Curaçao.

Assuria is one of eleven companies listed on the Suriname Stock Exchange, where shares trade twice a month, on the first and third Thursday of each month.

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Who owns it

Not published: the ownership structure — the identity of controlling shareholders, their percentage stakes, and the public free float — does not appear in any exchange bulletin, annual report PDF, or regulator filing reviewed for this profile. The Suriname Stock Exchange (SSX/VvES) does not publish a shareholder register online; the national securities regulator, the Centrale Bank van Suriname, has not published a shareholding disclosure for Assuria in sources accessible to this review.

Suriname’s Wet Kapitaalmarkt (Capital Markets Law), adopted in 2014, requires listed companies to disclose material shareholdings, but the quantum threshold and the publication mechanism are not confirmed in publicly available regulatory guidance. This is a genuine gap that a prospective investor should resolve directly with the company’s Investment & Treasury Department ([email protected]) or via the SSX broker network.

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Who runs it

Mario Merhai (AAG) is CEO of the Assuria Group; Rishie Parbhudayal serves as COO, responsible for operational continuity across the group’s markets. Both roles are confirmed in company communications around the 2024 Curaçao launch.

Gerry Fa is listed as Chief Financial Officer, though this attribution comes from an aggregator (RocketReach) rather than a primary company filing; investors should verify directly. The company was founded in 1991.

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The money, in plain words

Not published: Assuria publishes annual reports on its investor-relations page (assuria.sr/en/about-us/financial-reports/), and the 2024 Annual Report is listed there for download. However, the PDF’s direct URL could not be resolved by this review, and the 2023 report PDF, though fetched, could not be parsed due to a document encoding error.

No machine-readable income statement, balance sheet, or key-performance summary for 2023 or 2024 is available from the SSX exchange bulletins reviewed. Under the Wet Kapitaalmarkt (2014), listed Surinamese companies must publish audited annual financial statements, but the SSX does not reproduce them in its online bulletins.

Readers seeking revenue, net profit, total assets, equity, and margins should download the PDF directly from the Assuria IR page or contact the company.

The only verified price reference is the SSX live ticker: the Assuria share last traded at SRD 1,750 (≈ USD 1,750 at the given 1:1 FX rate), as of 22 June 2026. Without total shares outstanding confirmed from a primary filing, a market capitalisation figure cannot be calculated here.

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What it is doing now

In 2024, Assuria completed the acquisition of Sagicor’s life and health insurance portfolio in Curaçao, adding Assuria Levensverzekering (CUR) N.V. to its group — a move that strengthens its presence in the Dutch Caribbean and broadens its product range there.

Assuria also became the first financial institution in Suriname to achieve ISO 27001:2022 certification — the international standard for information-security management — a signal that the group is building the infrastructure needed to operate credibly across multiple regulated Caribbean jurisdictions.

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What to watch

• Curaçao integration. Absorbing a new book of life and health policies in a Dutch-law jurisdiction adds regulatory complexity; watch for the first full-year contribution from Assuria Levensverzekering (CUR) N.V. in the 2024 annual report.
• Suriname macro. The SRD has been highly volatile; an insurer whose premiums are collected in local currency but whose reinsurance and some liabilities price in USD carries meaningful currency risk — the key number to watch is the group equity position in US-dollar terms.
• Oil-boom spillover. Suriname’s offshore oil development (TotalEnergies / Apache) is set to generate significant new wealth and worker populations — a structural tailwind for all insurance lines, and a reason regional rivals may look at the Surinamese market more seriously.
• Disclosure quality. The SSX publishes price bulletins but not financial statements. Any improvement in structured digital disclosure would bring Assuria onto the radar of regional institutional investors currently unable to analyse it easily.

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This is news, not investment advice.