the day of his appointment to the top of General , April 24, Cesare Geronzi had promised: "The company has worked well so far. I will give my contribution so I will continue and leave a mark. I would like at the end of my term we had an additional size of the group. " Just over a month later here it seems that the first dossier on the horizon, with the Lion that shifts the gaze towards the East and the Asian assets of U.S. giant AIG, strained by the financial crisis. According to the Corriere della Sera on newsstands Thursday, citing "sources close" to the company, after the surrender of the British Prudential, the General could fit in the struggle for the conquest of the Asian subsidiaries of the group Use as long as AIG decides not to publicly traded division.
The market has accepted the rumors about the growth plans of the Lion pushing the price of title to the shares of Piazza Affari Generali earn more than 2.5% to just over an hour into the trading day (go stock quotes), and thus celebrate the return of the company in the insurance world wide risiko.
For now, however, the General not confirm this. According to a company in Trieste, it is too early to comment on the possibility of release of interest for assets General Insurance AIG Asian Sale: "It is entirely premature to talk about, "he says. The group Cesare Geronzi "point on the development in the East," he recalls, however, by the company, both at European and Asian. And the company in February 2009 had also submitted a bid for the assets of AIG in the Philippines together with Banco De Oro Unibank, the country's main bank. But the agreement with Prudential, which failed on Wednesday with a final cost of "termination" (charges for the closure of negotiations) for the English to 152.6 million pounds, indicating perhaps that the prices charged by the seller were too high. AIG has declined to reduce the original request of $ 35.5 billion for the Asian division.
(corriere.it)
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