Pru's

"Things like the Pru's deal not going through have a negative impact on CEOs' confidence."

UK second only to US for buyouts of foreign firms 2011

And, by the way, he used to run Prudential and selected Pru's current leader, Tidiane Thiam, as his successor less than a year ago.

AIA's New Deal Ron Shelp 2010

City shareholders have been meeting the Pru's senior independent director Paul Manduca, a former Rothschild banker, to demand that the bonus is scaled down to reflect the AIA debacle.

Prudential boss Thiam faces revolt over £1.62m bonus after botched AIA deal 2011

Flanagan said: "If there was strategic logic for a deal with AIA from the Pru's perspective, the same can be said if the shoe is on the other foot."

Prudential boss Thiam faces revolt over £1.62m bonus after botched AIA deal 2011

But some shareholders are threatening to vote against the Pru's remuneration report, due to be published at the end of April, at the annual meeting in June if Thiam's bonus is not reduced.

Prudential boss Thiam faces revolt over £1.62m bonus after botched AIA deal 2011

The U.K. insurer's $35.5 billion deal to buy AIA, the Asian assets of troubled state-controlled U.S. insurer American International Group, is a huge gamble for the Pru's ambitious new chief executive,

The Pru's Bold, Fresh Asian Flavor Hester Plumridge 2010

The deal will more than double the Pru's size and will require a $20 billion rights issue — in line with the U. K.'s largest-ever capital raising.

The Pru's Bold, Fresh Asian Flavor Hester Plumridge 2010

The U.K. insurer's $35.5 billion deal to buy AIA, the Asian assets of troubled state-controlled U.S. insurer American International Group, is a huge gamble for the Pru's ambitious new chief executive,

The Pru's Bold, Fresh Asian Flavor Hester Plumridge 2010

While some of those will have the strategic sense of Pru's, others will be born of the perceived need to do something rather than nothing, and the encouragement of deal-hungry bankers.

Sage Advice on Making an Acquisition Patience Wheatcroft 2010

The deal will more than double the Pru's size and will require a $20 billion rights issue — in line with the U. K.'s largest-ever capital raising.

The Pru's Bold, Fresh Asian Flavor Hester Plumridge 2010