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Aviva Plc, the U.K.’s second-biggest insurer by market value, named Mark Wilson chief executive officer, six months after Andrew Moss stepped down.
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Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s biggest insurer by market value, said its Asian business is on course to become self-financing by the end of 2013, which would give the insurer the option of selling any of its four divisions.
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RSA Insurance Group Plc, the U.K.’s biggest property and casualty insurer by market value, said nine-month revenue rose 4 percent as growing demand from emerging markets outweighed flat sales in the U.K.
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Aviva Plc, the U.K.’s second-biggest insurer by market value, said it’s in talks to sell its U.S. life unit in what would be the biggest disposal since Chairman John McFarlane took charge in May.
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Prudential Plc rose as much as 3.9 percent in London trading, the most in four months, after the Times reported the company’s biggest shareholder is in talks with investors about a possible breakup of the insurer.
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Tidjane Thiam kept his job after he tried and failed to buy Prudential Plc when he was strategy director at Aviva Plc . Now that he’s Prudential’s chief executive officer, he can’t afford to fail again.
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Prudential Plc ’s attempt to cut the price of its $35.5 billion takeover of American International Group Inc. ’s main Asian unit failed, leaving the biggest purchase in the U.K. insurer’s history on the verge of failure.
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Standard Life Plc , Scotland’s biggest life insurer, said first-half profit rose 10 percent, missing analysts’ estimates, as earnings from pensions slumped in the U.K. and Canada.
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Prudential Plc , the British insurer buying American International Group Inc.’s main Asian unit, delayed its $21 billion rights offering until U.K. regulators agree the combined company will have sufficient capital.
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Aviva Plc’s incoming chairman, John McFarlane, had a message for reporters questioning the insurer’s change of leadership 10 days after the departure of Chief Executive Officer Andrew Moss.
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