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Featured : Insurer AIA’s share sale sets Hong Kong record
The Asian unit of troubled US insurer AIG looked set Friday to record the world's second-largest initial public offering this year, in a monster...
Brit Insurance says Apollo sweetens approach
Brit Insurance said Apollo Management had raised its takeover bid to 10.75 pounds a share, valuing it at about 852 million pounds ($1.32 billion)...
Aon to buy Hewitt for $4.9 billion, creating HR giant
Aon Corp, the world's largest insurance brokerage, said Monday it will buy Hewitt Associates Inc for $4.9 billion in cash and stock to create...
Italy’s Generali could be interested in AIA ‘pieces’: report
Italian insurer Generali could be interested in "pieces" of AIG's Asian unit AIA after British insurer Prudential abandoned its ambitious takeover plan, daily Corriere...
Prudential chairman says no heads will roll over AIA
Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath said in an interview on Friday that no heads would roll at the British insurer after it abandoned an ambitious...
Prudential pulls out of bid for Asian insurer AIA
British insurer Prudential said Wednesday it was withdrawing from a bid to buy AIA, the Asian arm of AIG, after the US group refused...
AIG refuses to change conditions of AIA sale to Prudential
US insurer AIG said Tuesday it had refused to modify the conditions for the sale of its AIA Asian unit to British rival Prudential,...
Prudential chairman defends AIA mega-deal
Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath Tuesday defended a planned takeover of Asian insurer AIA as the British company's shares started trading in Hong Kong and...
Austria extends ban on naked short-selling
The Austrian financial market watchdog, the FMA, said Tuesday it had decided to extend a current temporary ban on so-called naked short-selling by a...
Prudential launches record cash call to buy Asian insurer
British insurance giant Prudential said Monday it will raise 14.5 billion pounds (17 billion euros, 21 billion dollars) from the sale of new shares...
Poland’s PZU draws record number of investors
Over a quarter million individual investors signed up for a pool of seven million shares in Poland's PZU insurance giant, setting a new record,...
Insurance giant Prudential expects to list in Hong Kong on May
Insurance giant Prudential, which has agreed to buy the Asian arm of troubled US insurer AIG, said Friday its shares were expected to start...
Prudential gets approval for Hong Kong listing
London-listed insurer Prudential has been given the green light by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to list on the city's bourse, a report said...
