Life and Pensions Competitor Tracker, February 2008

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Catalyst
  • Summary
• Table of Contents
• The Roundup
  • Mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and organic growth
    • M&A
    • Partnerships
    • Organic Growth
  • Product innovation and customer targeting
    • Product innovation
      • Investments
      • Annuities
• M&A, Partnerships and organic growth: The developments
  • AXA
    • AXA to buy out stake in AXA OYAK Holding (M&A) - Feb08
  • Groupama
    • Groupama purchases insurance company from OTP (M&A) -Feb 08
  • ING
    • ING sells Mexican insurance business to AXA (M&A) -Feb 08
  • Legal & General
    • Legal & General and Nationwide begin partnership(Partnership) - Feb 08
  • Manulife
    • Manulife Japan commences sale of annuity product- Feb 08
  • Prudential US
    • In the US Prudential Retirement partners with the Newport Group to offer Prudential IncomeFlex - (Partnerships) - Feb 2008
  • Sampo Life
    • Sampo receives s license to exceed 10% in Nordea -(Organic Growth) - Feb 08
  • Zurich
    • Scandinavia: Zurich opens branches in Norway and Denmark(Organic Growth) - Feb 08
• Product innovation and customer targeting: the developments
  • Aviva plc
    • Aviva launches Aviva Puissance 7 (Products) - Feb 08
  • Friends Provident
    • Friends Provident adds features to investor product(Products) - Feb 08
  • Lincoln National
    • Lincoln introduces retirement product (Product) - Feb 08
  • Manulife
    • John Hancock makes additions to life products (Product) -Feb 08
    • Manulife Japan commences sale of annuity product (Product)- Feb 08
  • Prudential US
    • Prudential Financial launches MyTerm, a simplified term assurance product, through AgStar Financial Services (Product) - Feb 08
  • Scottish Widows
    • Scottish Widows adds Retirement Income drawdown to its Retirement Account (Innovation) - Feb 08
  • JP Morgan
    • JP Morgan to provide currency hedging for pension fund(Product) - Feb 08
• APPENDIX
  • Methodology
  • Index of strategies by company
    • Aviva
    • Axa
    • Friends Provident
    • ING
    • Groupama
    • JP Morgan
    • L&G
    • Lincoln
    • Manulife
    • Prudential US
    • Sampo
    • Scottish Widows
    • Zurich
  • Index of strategies by geography
    • Western Europe
      • UK
      • Nordic Region
      • France
    • Central and Eastern Europe
      • Turkey
      • Hungary
    • North America
      • US
    • South and Central America
      • Mexico
    • Asia
      • Japan
  • Index of strategies by trend
    • Mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and organic growth
      • M&A
      • Partnerships
      • Organic Growth
    • Product innovation and customer targeting
      • Product innovation
  • Further reading
  • Ask the analyst
  • Datamonitor consulting
  • Disclaimer