Prudential plc

Mental wellbeing is central to our overall health, productivity, resilience, and our relationships with others. At Prudential, we seek to normalise conversations around mental health and offer a wide range of resources and tools to support our people’s wellbeing. World Mental Health Day was a reminder of the importance of maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. Our local markets organised a series of events to promote mental wellbeing and engage our employees in meaningful ways. With the green ribbon as the international symbol of mental health awareness, employees wore green to show our advocacy for building a workplace where everyone feels supported and can thrive together. Learn more about our commitment to supporting our people’s wellbeing: https://lnkd.in/gP9Eet43 #EveryLifeEveryFuture #mentalhealth #workplacewellbeing

Prudential has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of Prudential Zenith Life Insurance Limited, its joint venture business in Nigeria. Solmaz Altin, Managing Director, Strategic Business Group, said: "We are delighted to take full ownership of the business and have the opportunity to better serve the needs of our customers and create long term value for our shareholders. Acquiring the remaining stake is consistent with our new strategy to build a sustainable multi-channel growth platform through targeted investment in structural growth markets across Asia and Africa. We see substantial long-term opportunities in Nigeria and plan to build on our existing agents, bancassurance partnerships and direct distribution capabilities." Click here to find out more: http://spr.ly/6040oIJCk #NextPrudential #EveryLifeEveryFuture

As a long-term investor, our investment strategy is centred on achieving long term sustainable returns for our customers. At the recent #MIGlobal Asia Summit, Don Guo, Group Chief Investment Officer, emphasised our commitment to climate investment as a key long-term investment theme to combat climate change and foster a more sustainable future. We have been building a diversified, high-quality climate-resilient portfolio that can withstand and adapt to the impacts of climate change, ensuring long-term stability and growth. We are also significantly expanding our transition financing investments, to help companies transition from brown to green, which is crucial for the world’s shift to a lower carbon future. We’ve recently published Prudential’s Financing the Transition framework which outlines our approach to a just and inclusion transition investment in emerging markets, and how we can accelerate climate transition investment in these regions. Learn more here: http://spr.ly/6042ooupy #EveryLifeEveryFuture #sustainability #responsibleinvestment

Our Chair, Shriti Vadera participated in this year's Shanghai Mayor's International Business Leaders' Advisory Council (IBLAC) meetings, focused on advances in scientific and technological innovation. In this year’s discussions, Shriti highlighted healthcare and financial inclusion as areas with potential opportunities for technology adoption. These are areas where technology and innovation can improve health prevention and promotion through whole-cycle, and end-to-end personalised treatments. And which can expand financial security through increasing access to protection and savings products and boost consumption and channel savings to investment in the economy. Shriti also met with Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining to discuss wider opportunities in asset management, health and sustainability. Prudential has been a member of IBLAC for over a decade. We look forward to supporting Shanghai's developments as an international centre for finance and innovation in the years to come. Steven X. Chan #NextPrudential

Prudential’s responsible investment strategy leverages our unique position as a large asset owner in Asia and Africa. Our presence in emerging markets in these regions gives us a unique voice on responsible investment.    On this front, we have introduced a framework that integrates emerging market considerations when investing in energy transition. Our newly published whitepapers outline this framework and defines what transition financing means for Prudential. In addition, we explore a practical investment approach of how we apply our framework to construct a capital markets climate transition portfolio with Eastspring Investments.    Click here to view our whitepapers: https://lnkd.in/gY7-eM_C   #EveryLifeEveryFuture #sustainability #responsibleinvestment

Donna Buckland, Senior Director of Sustainability, was part of a panel at ReThink HK discussing how organisations can create more inclusivity for their employees. She shared that unity in diversity needs to be embedded in the workplace culture for people to thrive. “A workplace that champions inclusion where people are valued, heard, and empowered to contribute to the tapestry of organisational success." At Prudential, we aim to foster an inclusive workplace environment that values and respects differences, providing a platform for innovation and creativity to flourish. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: http://spr.ly/6041o391t #EveryLifeEveryFuture

At Prudential, we strive to provide an inclusive workplace for our people to reach their full potential. Our internal community group, PRUAbility, aims to increase awareness about disability and neurodiversity.   Our group of committed PRUAbility volunteers across our local businesses are passionate about bringing change in big and small ways. One of the recent activities organised was a movie night in which we collaborated with our NGO partner SENsational Foundation, to highlight key learning points from the film Inside Out 2. This initiative aims to foster a deeper understanding of neurodivergent individuals and support their mental health.   PRUAbility co-chairs Abhishek Saraf, FIAI and Dr. Shivani Sarwal share their hopes and commitment in creating a workplace inclusive of our colleagues with neurodiversity and those living with disabilities.   Learn more about Prudential’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: https://lnkd.in/g2M-_ipk #EveryLifeEveryFuture #neurodiversity #mentalhealth

Today we announced our first half results which underline the progress we continue to make. In the first half; - we delivered high quality new business profit growth of 8 per cent alongside increased margins, on an ex-economics basis; - we grew operating profit 9 per cent; and - we announced a $2 billion share buyback programme. The structural drivers of growth in Asia and Africa for our industry remain intact, with ongoing strong demand in respect of protection, long-term savings and retirement propositions as broader based economic growth returns to our markets. We continue to be confident in achieving our 2027 financial and strategic objectives. You can read our results here http://spr.ly/6044mkqr6 #NextPrudential #EveryLifeEveryFuture

Staff and alumni at Prudential are shocked and saddened to hear the news about Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy. Jonathan joined Prudential as Finance Director in 1995 and served as CEO from 2000 to 2005. During his time here, the company’s focus changed from the UK, to being more international and Asia emerged as a key area of growth. We wouldn’t be the company we are today if it wasn’t for him – we owe a lot to Jonathan. Our thoughts are with Jonathan and Judy’s family and friends at this time, and all those impacted by this tragedy.

Today, customers are not just buying products, they are buying experiences. Priscilla Ng, Group Chief Customer and Marketing Officer, discusses the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing the customer experience and the importance of data to gain deeper insights into our customers. Discover how these elements are pivotal to Prudential's ambition to deliver consistent world-class customer experience. #NextPrudential #EveryLifeEveryFuture #AI #Customer