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| | PR: ING Group 2001 Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | ING Group, the Amsterdam-based international integrated financial services company, today reported that operational net profit rose 6.1 percent to EUR 4,252 million/U.S. $3,764 million in 2001. |
 | | Despite the worldwide economic slowdown, many ING businesses continued to expand at a healthy pace, though ING's 2001 results were affected in several ways by the downturn in the global economy, September 11 attacks, crisis in Argentina and weaker equity markets. |
 | | In North America, ING is one of the top 10 U.S. life insurers, the largest non-life insurer in Canada, a leading provider of financial services in Mexico and the No. 1 international insurance company by premium income in Latin America. |
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