Life and Pensions Competitor Tracker, March 2008

The Life & Pensions Competitor Tracker Tracks Strategic Developments of 50+ US, European and Asian Life & Pensions Companies. IT Focuses on Product Innovation, Customer Targeting, M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth

Publication Date	May 2008
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	15
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT11772

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Summary

Introduction

The Life & Pensions Competitor Tracker tracks strategic developments of 50+ US, European and Asian Life & Pensions companies. It focuses on product innovation, customer targeting, M&A, partnerships and organic growth.

Scope

Highlights

Reasons to Purchase

Provides a detailed roundup of the key trends in Product Innovation, M&A, Partnerships and Organic growth during the first quarter of 2008 Track the strategies announced by 50+ of your key competitors Assess which geographies and strategic areas are seeing the most activity.

Content

Overview
Catalyst
Summary
The Roundup
- Mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and organic growth
- M&A and partnership activity has been concentrated on the Far East and Emerging Markets
- Building distribution alliances has remained a source of M&A and partnership activity in Western Europe
- Efforts at Organic Growth are aimed at the Far East
- Product innovation has mainly centered on investment products and annuities
- M&A, Partnerships and organic growth: The developments
- Allianz
- Allianz enters Japanese life market (organic growth) - Mar08
- HSBC Holdings
- HSBC enters Korean insurance market (Organic Growth / Partnership) - March
- ING
- Netherlands retail banking network receives investment boost (Organic growth) - Mar
- Liverpool Victoria
- LV launches flexible retirement solutions business (Organic Growth) - March
- Wesleyan
- Wesleyan announces UK growth plans (Organic growth) - Mar08
- Zurich
- Zurich acquires 50% stake in Can Soluciones Integrales (Acquisition) - March
- Zurich closes acquisition of TEB Sigorta (Acquisition) - March
- Product innovation and customer targeting: the developments
- Aviva plc
- Aviva Vie updates life insurance policy - March
- Aviva and BASIX launch group term plan in India - March
- Norwich Union launching online Simplified Life portal (innovation) - Mar
- Friends Provident
- Wealth Solutions Bond now has multi-income option - (Innovation) Mar
- Manulife
- Manulife Taiwan to offer new Whole Life Health insurance product (innovation) - Mar
- Manulife introduces offshore investments funds (innovation) - Mar08
- Old Mutual
- Additional non-sterling funds added to Skandia's range (Innovation) - Mar
Appendix
- Methodology
Index of Strategies by Company
- Allianz
- Aviva
- Friends Provident
- ING
- LV
- HSBC Holdings
- Manulife
- Old Mutual
- Wesleyan
- Zurich
Index of Strategies by Geography
- Ireland
- UK
- Spain
- Benelux
- Turkey
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Malaysia
Index of Strategies by Trend
- M&A
- Partnerships
- Organic Growth
- Product innovation
- Investments
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer