Tag: insurance

The insurer is the second Indonesian company this year after Petrosea to test the water for a follow-on issue.
By Aiko Hayashi | 20 January 2012
The Chinese insurer is seeking to raise up to $4.1 billion from the sale of bonds convertible into A-shares.
By Anette Jönsson | 10 January 2012
The Chinese insurer priced its IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai near the bottom of the range. China Polymetallic Mining and Baoxin Auto also get their deals across the line in a ...
By Anette Jönsson, Aiko Hayashi | 9 December 2011
The Chinese insurer aims to raise up to $2.3 billion from the dual-listing. Four cornerstone investors, including Malaysia’s Khazanah, have committed to invest $780 ...
By Aiko Hayashi | 30 November 2011
The Chinese insurer is expected to raise about $2.3 billion from a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai as secondary markets continue to drop. In other news, Richard Li ...
By Anette Jönsson, Aiko Hayashi | 22 November 2011
The CJ group sells $300 million of stock in Samsung Life and a charitable foundation raises $230 million by divesting part of its holdings in Hyundai Glovis.
By Anette Jönsson | 18 October 2011
Cheng Yu Tung reduces his stake in Ping An Insurance to just 2.4% of the H-share capital after a $998 million block trade and at least two transactions where he used his ...
By Anette Jönsson | 31 August 2011
The widely expected deal comes a couple of weeks after Carlyle's latest lockup expires and marks its third sell-down in China Pacific Insurance in seven months.
By Anette Jönsson | 28 July 2011
Frank Koster, ING Insurance’s Asia chief executive, talks about the region’s insurance markets and about his plans for the business.
By Nick Ferguson | 21 July 2011
The pipeline of financial sector deals continues to grow as China Merchants Bank announces plans to raise $5.4 billion from a rights issue.
By Anette Jönsson | 19 July 2011
Ping An raises $82 million from the sale of its entire 6% stake in the Hong Kong-listed fund manager, two months after its previous sell-down.
By Anette Jönsson | 5 July 2011
M&A
Reliance group buys Bharti's 74% stake in two insurance joint ventures in India, bringing Mukesh Ambani into direct competition with younger brother Anil.
By Sameera Anand | 13 June 2011
Ping An successfully prices its debut Rmb2 billion dim sum bond. But as recent deals show, investors are pushing back on pricing.
By Denise Wee | 2 June 2011
NWS becomes the first cornerstone investor to exit AIA through a $70 million trade after a 39.5% gain in the share price, while an institutional investor sells $308 million ...
By Anette Jönsson | 1 June 2011
M&A
Nippon Life Insurance buys a 26% stake in Anil Ambani's life insurance company, paying $680 million to become a strategic investor in India's last independent life insurer.
By Sameera Anand | 16 March 2011
Participation by two anchor investors, including Allianz, allows the deal to be priced at a 0% discount to the market price. Meanwhile, the controlling shareholder of water ...
By Anette Jönsson | 10 January 2011
The exercise of the shoe increases the deal size to $20.5 billion and makes the pan-Asia life insurer the third largest IPO in the world.
By Anette Jönsson | 1 November 2010
The pan-Asian life-insurer prices at the top and exercises its 20% upsize option in full after attracting $130 billion of demand.
By Anette Jönsson | 25 October 2010
As the pan-Asia life insurer opens the retail portion of its $13.9 billion to $20.6 billion IPO and kicks off the marketing to US institutional investors today, sources say the ...
By Anette Jönsson | 18 October 2010
The pan-Asian life insurer welcomes an early inflow of orders and is covered after the first day, including $1.92 billion of demand from five cornerstone investors, sources say.
By Anette Jönsson | 6 October 2010
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