korea-life-first-out-in-year-of-heavy-insurancesector-issuance

Korea Life first out in year of heavy insurance-sector issuance

Korea's second largest life insurer seeks to raise up to $2 billion and grab a first-mover advantage over industry leader Samsung Life, which is expected to follow with its own listing later this year.
February 17, 2010

The listing of resources companies is expected to be one of the key trends in Asia this year -- a trend that has already started with the Hong Kong IPOs of Russian aluminium major UC Rusal and Mongolia-based coal miner SouthGobi Energy Resources in January.

But as the disappointment over Rusal's poor trading debut grows -- yesterday it closed 25.8% below its IPO price -- investor focus is shifting to another trend that is expected to characterise 2010, namely life insurance. The highlight of the year is likely to be the spin-off of troubled American International Group's AIG wholly owned Asian subsidiary, American International Assurance Company AIA for a separate listing in Hong...

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