AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) helps its clients hold onto their assets. It provides life and property/casualty insurance, retirement funds, and investment products to individuals and businesses. The company has operations through subsidiaries and partnerships in Australia, China, Indonesia, Macao, New Zealand, and other Asia/Pacific countries. The company partners with AllianceBernstein to provide asset management services in Australia and New Zealand. French insurance giant AXA owns 54% of the firm. AXA APH has become an object of desire for local banks, and AXA would like to take over all of its Asian operations.