David Woodburn, an analyst for Prudential Equity Group, has a "sell" rating on Seprecor.
"There's always pressure on an analyst not to say 'sell', " says Michael Mayo, an analyst for Prudential Securities.
Missing out on AIA is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Asian business is already big and growing fast.
"The only reason anyone buys Scripps is for the networks' business, " says Steven Barlow, publishing and advertising analyst for Prudential Securities.
"Ever since the South Africa movement, social investing has really blossomed, " says Mark Melcher, director of research for Prudential Securities in Washington.
Robert Rountree, regional economist for Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong, agrees.
But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential -- not excessive -- regulation of the financial system.
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Melcher, director of research for Prudential Securities in Washington.
"I do remember the latter part of the day when it got so bad it got funny, " says Larry Wachtel, a veteran stock analyst who was working for Prudential Securities at the time.
Howard Wheeldon, who covers capital goods for Prudential-Bache, thinks the stock is a bargain, but he has stopped covering the company because of a lack of interest from his clients--a positive sign for contrarian investors.
Timothy Anderson, who covers Roche for Prudential Equity Group, suggested in a note to investors that 10% of patients in the U.S. who could benefit from Herceptin in early breast cancer could already be on the drug.
He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.
Jonathan Miller, an appraiser who prepares market reports for Prudential Douglas Elliman, said there appeared to be a similar pattern of strong lower-priced sales on Long Island, but he said he has not finalized a report on the island for the fourth quarter.
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The event roster for the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, is fairly diverse.
There is no reason why the same should not be true for pensions, although the need for adequate prudential and saver-protection regulation will clearly remain.
His father was a middle manager for the Prudential, mother was a cookery teacher, Angus was the youngest of three boys, and they all lived comfortably in Caterham.
During a period of economic weakness, for example, a prudential supervisor concerned only with the safety and soundness of a particular institution will tend to push for very conservative lending policies.
FSA, Britain's new financial super-regulator, reprimanded the country's largest life assurer, Prudential , for mismanaging its salesforce.
Over the next several years, countries like the U.S. and China will have greater demand for copper, according to Prudential metals analyst Angus MacMillan.
It's in effect a demand for the new macro-prudential regulator being created by the Treasury which will sit within the Bank of England - the Financial Policy Committee, of which Lord Turner is a member - to have important and unprecedented new powers to determine credit creation by banks and to determine the distribution of credit.
Basel III makes explicit provision for capital ratios to be varied on a discretionary basis for so-called macro-prudential purposes, to deflate bubbles.
In an effort to increase sales to middle-income families, Prudential is experimenting with policies for sale through banks that can be issued more speedily.
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Credit culture and disclosure are being improved, and prudential standards are being strengthened, for instance in risk concentration, connected lending and liquidity management.
Prudential primarily relies on retail banking network for distribution activity with sales made via insurance agents.
Prudential said it would quit taking applications for policies sold to individuals as of March 30, but would continue to sell the coverage through employer-sponsored benefit programs.
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However, that goal should be achieved outside of housing finance, through appropriate stabilizing measures by the Federal Reserve and through better prudential regulation, and especially higher capital requirements for large systemic financial institutions.
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Lord Turner says that the conventional institutions that we look to provide stability for the financial system and the economy - micro-prudential regulators such as the FSA or central banks like the Bank of England - don't have adequate tools for the task.
But reserve holdings in some emerging markets have gone way beyond levels suggested by prudential rules of thumb enough to pay for three months of imports, say, or to cover short-term foreign-currency debt.
Retirement annuities are one of the fastest growing businesses for insurers like MetLife, AIG, The Hartford and Prudential Financial.
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"I think London will give Malaysia and the rest of the Islamic world a run for its money, " said Mark Toh, chief executive of Prudential's fund management business in Malaysia.
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