Prudential plc Tidjane Thiam as CEO, on a pay package worth up to £7.5 million. In August 2017, it was announced that Prudential was to combine its asset manager, M&G, and Prudential UK & Europe to form M&G Prudential. In November 2017, Prudential announced the change in the name of its joint venture with Chinese investment company CITIC to "CITIC Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited". In March 2018, Prudential announced that it would demerge M&G Prudential from the Group. The Company has three business units: Prudential RideLondon is an annual two-day cycling festival, held for the first time in 2013. The 2017
Tidjane Thiam reduced after shareholder backlash. From 2015 to 2018, Credit Suisse did not turn an annualized profit under Thiam. In light of this fact, he has repeatedly asked for his bonuses and overall compensation to be reduced. In March 2018, Thiam detailed a new profitability track for the company by stating: "We've been cleaning up a lot of undesirable trades that we should not have done... There's no way to clean up the past, given the legacy we have, without generating losses. We have profitable operations of the company." In October 1999 Thiam was appointed by James Wolfensohn as one of