[Report] M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth in Life and Pensions, Q2 2007 TOC

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The Roundup
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Partnerships
- Organic growth
The Developments
- AIG
  - AIG to acquire publicly-held shares of 21st Century Insurance Group (M&A) - June 2007
- Allianz
  - Allianz expands into Russian life and non-life markets with acquisition of Progress-Garant (M&A) - May 2007
  - Allianz increases its stakes in AGF and Allianz Leben (M&A) - April 2007
- Aviva plc
  - Aviva company Hibernian expands presence in Ireland (Organic growth) - June 2007
  - Joint venture with CIMB Group allows Aviva to enter the Malaysian market (Partnership) - June 2007
  - Aviva and MDM Bank form bancassurance partnership for Russia (Partnership) - June 2007
  - Sabanci Holding and Aviva merge their life and pensions business in Turkey and form a bancassurance joint venture with Akbank (M&A / Partnership) - June 2007
  - Aviva gains approval for private pension schemes in Romania (Organic growth) - June 2007
  - Cajamurcia and Aviva launch bancassurance partnership in Spain (Partnership) - June 2007
  - First Financial and Aviva enter bancassurance joint venture in Taiwan (Partnership) - April 2007
  - Aviva Russia set to expand with new products and direct sales (Organic growth) - April 2007
- AXA
  - AXA announces sale of its business in the Netherlands to SNS Reaal (Divestment) - April 2007
- Barclays plc
  - Barclays enters the Indian retail banking market (Organic growth) - May 2007
- Credit Agricole
  - Japan is new life market for Crédit Agricole (Organic growth) - June 2007
- Fortis
  - Fortis, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland announce offer for ABN AMRO (M&A) - April 07
- Friends Provident
  - Friends Provident acquires Sesame Group Limited and Pantheon Financial Limited (M&A) - May 2007
  - Friends Provident International gains insurance licence in the United Arab Emirates (Organic growth) - June 2007
  - Friends Provident International marks opening of Singapore office with the launch of Global Portfolio - June 2007
- GE Capital
  - Swiss Re enters into an agreement to allow the sale of the former GE Life to LV= (Divestment) - May 2007
- Hibernian Life
  - Hibernian Life teams up with Best Doctors (Partnership) - May 2007
- HSBC Holdings
  - HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings sells its stake in Hang Seng Life Limited to Hang Seng Insurance Company (Divestment / restructuring) - June 2007
- ING
  - ING Acquires AZL (M&A) - April 2007
  - ING receives approval to launch life insurance activities in Russia (Organic growth) - June 2007
- Liverpool Victoria
  - LV= announces agreement to acquire the new business operations of ' Tomorrow' , the former GE Life (M&A) - May 2007
- Manulife
  - Manulife-Sinochem expands business operations in North China (Organic growth) - April 2007
  - Manulife-Sinochem opens new sales office in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (Organic growth) - May 2007
  - Manulife Financial to acquire Berkshire-TWC Financial Group (M&A) - June 2007
- Old Mutual
  - SkandiaBanken sells Denmark Branch (M&A) - May 07
- Prudential PLC
  - Prudential plc to become largest shareholder in new Takaful Ta' awuni life insurance operation in Saudi Arabia (M&A) - June 07
- RBS
  - Fortis, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland announce offer for ABN AMRO (M&A) - April 07
- Santander
  - Fortis, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland announce offer for ABN AMRO (M&A) - April 07
- Skandia
  - SkandiaBanken sells Denmark Branch (Divestment) - May 07
APPENDIX
- Methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
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- Disclaimer

M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth in Life and Pensions, Q2 2007

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