When Mark Tucker,Chief Executive Of Aiagroup,Got wind last March that several European insurers were looking to sell their Asian assets, he immediately told his senior executives to give chase. Within weeks reports came back that Dutch financial services outfit ING Group was preparing to put its Asian operations up for sale.Tucker sent a team of executives to Amsterdam to begin talks, well ahead of half a dozen rivals. After seven months and thousands of hours of negotiations, AIA emerged victorious on October 11, prevailing against rival offers from Canada's Manulife Financial Corp.
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