April 9, 2025
China’s financial regulator plans to raise limits for insurance funds’ investment in the stock market, as part of action taken to increase support for capital markets and the real economy. It will raise the upper limit of the equity asset …
January 5, 2021
Genworth Financial and China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. can’t seem to put the finishing touches on their agreement for Oceanworth to buy Genworth, a $2.7 billion cash deal that was first proposed in October 2016. The parties had originally hoped …
January 25, 2019
China’s fourth-largest lender on Friday issued the first-ever perpetual bonds by a Chinese bank, with yields at the low end of market expectations after new policies to support their issuance boosted market interest. The bond issue by Bank of China …
September 26, 2018
Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. aims to sell $200 million worth of Japanese real estate to bidders including Blackstone Group LP, about two years after buying them from the U.S. investment firm, two people with knowledge of the matter said. …
July 19, 2018
China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. is looking to offload overseas properties worth about $10 billion to shore up its balance sheet as part of a government-backed rescue, three people with knowledge of the matter said. The sales are likely …
July 16, 2018
Anbang Insurance Group Co. is weighing a sale of its Hexie Health Insurance Co. unit as the troubled Chinese firm reviews its assets for possible divestment, according to people familiar with the matter. The insurer is in discussions with financial …
July 10, 2018
Anbang Insurance Group Co. is exploring a sale of Belgian insurer Fidea, people with knowledge of the matter said, in what would be the troubled Chinese insurer’s first European divestment since it was seized by the government. Beijing-based Anbang has …
April 12, 2018
Anbang Insurance Group Co., the troubled Chinese insurer seized by the government, is interviewing investment banks to advise on potential asset divestments, people with knowledge of the matter said. The once-acquisitive insurer plans to hire an adviser to manage the …
April 4, 2018
China is injecting 60.8 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) into Anbang Insurance Group Co. as it attempts to contain the fallout after the company’s former chairman was accused of masterminding a multi-billion dollar fraud. The move is aimed at ensuring Anbang’s …
April 2, 2018
Chinese prosecutors said Wu Xiaohui, the former chairman of Anbang Insurance Group Co., doesn’t deserve leniency as the one-day hearing of a fundraising fraud and embezzlement case against him wrapped up. Wu didn’t make confessions that could justify reduced penalties, …