Sunday, September 5th, 2010

News and Event

Prudential taps Asia sovereign funds over AIA deal

SINGAPORE (AFP) – – British insurer Prudential is tapping sovereign wealth funds in China and Singapore to help finance its 35.5 billion dollar buyout of US insurance giant AIG’s Asian arm, a report said Tuesday. The Financial Times quoted unidentified sources as saying that Prudential and its advisers were in talks with the sovereign wealth funds to support a planned 20 billion-dollar... [Read more]


Great Eastern Covers H1N1 Hospitalization Claims

Kuala Lumpur, 19 August 2009 – Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad’s Director and Chief Executive Officer Mr Koh Yaw Hui informed that as a good corporate citizen with a hundred and one years’ presence in Malaysia, Great Eastern will cover hospitalization claims made by its policyholders, who have been hospitalized due to influenza A (H1N1). “This pandemic disease is distressing... [Read more]