THIS will be a crunch week for National Mutual Asia, the target of a dirty-tricks campaign.
The insurer saw its stock plummet at the end of last week after the sudden departure of chief executive Andrew Yang and a smear campaign against the group.
On Friday its stock was the worst performer of the day, dropping 16 per cent, $1, to close at $5.20, its lowest level since late October. On Wednesday it lost 55 cents.
Its turnover, 35.24 million shares worth about $181.7 million, made it the seventh heaviest stock traded by volume and value.
Such heavy turnover indicates that significant institutional selling was behind the fall.
At meetings over the weekend, senior executives grappled with plans to get the company and its share price back on an even keel.