Prudential’s new focus

Headline: Prudential’s new focus Source: Euromoney Date: September 2000 more on Asset Management Traditional institutional fund management no longer holds much appeal for Prudential. Earlier this year the UK insurer sold off its pension fund equity business – some £11.5 billion ($18.5 billion) of assets under management – because it was not turning enough profit. […]

Headline: Prudential’s new focus
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2000

more on Asset Management

Traditional institutional fund management no longer holds much appeal for Prudential. Earlier this year the UK insurer sold off its pension fund equity business – some £11.5 billion ($18.5 billion) of assets under management – because it was not turning enough profit.

Instead Prudential is putting its focus on higher margin retail business, although it is retaining its institutional fixed income accounts.

Michael McLintock, chief executive of M&G, Prudential’s asset management division, says: “We took a view that the traditional balanced and equity pension fund mandates were essentially a very mature business.









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