Many Prudential shareholders are relieved at the collapse of the company's attempt to buy the Asian operations of American insurer AIG. The business history of the past two decades is studded with failed mega-mergers. Time Warner gave away half the world's most successful media business for a web portal that proved to be worth almost nothing. Royal Bank of Scotland bid for ABN Amro at the peak of the credit boom and had to be rescued by the state.
在得知公司收购美国国际集团(AIG)亚洲业务的尝试失败了后,保诚(Prudential)的许多股东都松了一口气。在过去20年的商业史上,失败的“巨无霸”合并案比比皆是。时代华纳(Time Warner)为了一个最终被证明几乎一文不值的门户网站,放弃了一半堪称manbetx app苹果 最成功的媒体业务。苏格兰皇家银行(Royal Bank of Scotland)在信贷繁荣鼎盛时期收购了荷兰银行(ABN Amro),然后不得不接受政府救助。