Ping An Insurance

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company_name = 中国平安保险 China Ping An Insurance
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company_type = Privately-held
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foundation = 1988
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location_city = flagicon|China Shenzhen, Guangdong
location_country = People's Republic of China
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key_people = Ma Mingjie, Chairman
area_served = People's Republic of China
industry = Diversified insurance
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parent = China Ping An Insurance Group
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homepage = [http://www.pingan.com www.pingan.com]

Ping An (zh-cp|c=中国平安|p=Zhōng Guó Píng An), full name Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. is a holding company whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance and financial services. The company was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in Shenzhen.

Ping An Insurance group is the holding company of Ping An Life Insurance Company of China, Ltd. and Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, Ltd. It also controls China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings) Limited and Ping An Trust & Investment Co., Ltd. Ping An Insurance Overseas, located in Hong Kong, is a second holding company for subsidiary companies located outside of China.

Ping An Trust & Investment has the subsidiaries of Ping An Securities and Ping An Bank.

Ping An began as only a casualty insurance company. Since the mid 1990s Ping An has been diversifying into financial services from its core business of insurance and began taking investments from overseas firms. Ping An accepted investments from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in 1994. In 2002 HSBC took a large equity interest in Ping An. In early 2008, Ping An took a 50% share in Fortis Investments, [ [http://www.caijing.com.cn/English/industry&companies/2008-04-03/55137.shtml The Ping An-Fortis Deal: Who Really Wins?] , Caijing Magazine, 3 April 2008] which had taken over ABN AMRO Asset Management as a result of the split up of ABN Amro in late 2007.

Markets

Since June 24 2004 Ping An has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. sehk|2318Now, it has stock exchange in Shanghai, SSE|601318.

Ping An was chosen as an index stock of the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) replacing Anhui Expressway.

The Hang Seng Index Services Company announced on 11 May, 2007 that Ping An will join as Hang Seng Index Constituent Stock (Blue Chip Stock) since 4 June, 2007.

Operations

Ping An has operations across all of the People's Republic of China, and in Hong Kong and Macau through Ping An Insurance Overseas. Ping An has branches or a representative agent in 150 countries.

References

External links

* [http://www.pingan.com.cn Company web site 1]
* [http://www.pa18.com/pa18Web/framework/aboutus_en.jsp?content=http://www.pa18.com/pa18Docc/docc/aboutus/english/index.htm Company web site 2]

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