PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE YEAR EARNINGS

  The Prudential Insurance Company of
  America, a privately held company, said today that net income
  in 1986 rose to 2.8 billion dlrs from the 2.3 billion dlrs
  reported the year earlier.
      Assets under management rose to 177.5 billion dlrs in 1986
  from 150.1 billion dlrs in 1985, while consolidated assets
  jumped to 134.5 billion dlrs from 115.7 billion dlrs.
      Discussing its major subsidiaries, the company said that
  Prudential Capital and Investment Services Inc, the holding
  company for brokerage house Prudential-Bache Securities and
  certain other related subsidiaries, earned 142 million dlrs in
  1986. Of that, the securities operations of Prudential-Bache
  netted 81.7 mln dlrs after taxes and a charge of 25 mln dlrs.
  

