Country life: to make stable advancement of overseas amalgamations and acquisitions

Insurance companies in 2008 the first annual report released yesterday, revenue has shrunk substantially. March 26, China Life was held in Beijing in 2008 the operating results of the annual conference, in Hong Kong accounting standards-based performance report showed that as at December 31, 2008, China Life’s total investment income of 30.24 billion yuan more than 2007 was down 61.4 percent; net profit of 21.28 billion yuan, representing a 45.3 percent decline in 2007. Solvency in 2007 from 525% to 310%.

Decline in snare earnings influenced by numerous components

Not perfect but for as early as the anticipated profitability of, China Life Chairman Yang Chao said in the seminar, as a outcome of the first half of the homeland in 2008 for the South skilled a catastrophe and iced rainfall and snowfall “5.12″ Wen chun large earthquakes, and are seldom glimpsed in the second half of the worldwide economic urgent position, making the procedure of the development of China Life is opposite unprecedented challenges. As of the end of 2008, China Life Insurance to pay a total of 11.916 million yuan reimbursement snowstorm, earthquake to pay a total of about 153 million claims; At the identical time, change of monetary and borrowing principle, exchange rates, alterations in interest rates, the cost of component charges conveyed about by alterations to their varying qualifications of impact.

As for the pointed down turn in solvency, vice leader of China Life Insurance Analysis Tak Liu sharp out that the deepness of capital markets directed to smaller buying into asset standards have fallen harshly identified and the fast development of the company’s enterprise is the major cause for the down turn in solvency.

It was also introduced in 2008 a huge shock to international capital markets, China Life Insurance is not investment, and sub-loan crisis is directly related to the offshore bonds, equities and derivatives.

Modest financial endeavour in overseas

As can be seen from the report in 2008, China Life’s investment portfolio has changed greatly, which claims investment accounts for 61.4% equity investment in 2007 from 23% to 8%. In the face of financial crisis, the country life in time to adjust the investment strategy. Germany, according to Liu, the 2008 increment of the main assets in fixed-income allocation of species, including infrastructure plans, such as claims, but also to honor some of the rights and interests of timely investment income category, but also cut interest rates before the increase of bank deposits and bond-type configuration. Nevertheless, the total investment income was only 3.4%, and in 2007 was as high as 10.24%.

Investment approach for 2009, Liu said Germany would adhere to the fixed-income assets supported financial endeavour approach, at the matching time will more intimately organize the organisation of the new financial endeavour paths open to find, for instance financial endeavour in infrastructure, invest in unsecured bonds, actual property area financial endeavour, confidential equity financial endeavour chances for the new configuration. “We will look for a better stage of financial endeavour wages to make up for in 2009 will face insist on profits.”

Tak Liu advised reporters that China Life would snatch the new “Insurance Law” to enlarge financial endeavour paths of indemnity financial gatherings this beneficial possibility, principally for actual property area financial endeavour and infrastructure financial endeavour is very welcome.

The report referred that in the overseas financial endeavour, will energetically force frontwards the sound of overseas fusions and acquisitions and equity investments. Prior to this, China Life Insurance has advertised it was deserting a offer for AIG assets in Asia, Yang Chao in reply to a reporter’s query, said that overseas financial endeavour is the financial endeavour firm China Life Insurance main purpose, cease the AIA (AIA), does not intend that overseas financial endeavour is no longer China Life will do a good job in the in the household market on the foundation of an advantageous financial endeavour overseas. Has now amassed many of financial endeavour ventures, the ongoing examine in depth. At the matching time, the registered financial gathering China Life has yet to strategic investors, promising to find symmetric Yang Chao global strategic investors, but in addition demand time and careful.

Unexpected increase in premiums

Sharp fall contrasted to a earnings of China Life in 2008 premium development was unforeseen, particularly in the Bancassurance conduit growth.

The report shows that in 2008 the original insurance contract premiums of 295.579 billion yuan of income than the same period in 2007 grew 50.33%. “This growth rate greatly exceeded the budget of the Board of Directors issued last year, the goal is 8% -10%.” Chao said such growth, mainly in the Banking and Insurance channels due to the entire market environment impact. He admitted that for such mixed results, because the majority of revenue is silver wholesale insurance to pay, not entirely in keeping with the development strategy of China Life position, but can not give up the channel.

Therefore, China Life has been directed at in 2009 in rank to realise a flat scale of enterprise expansion, modification of enterprise structure, to guard against operational threats to tenacity business-oriented development strategy. Pay alertness to the enterprise to deduce long-term interval, risk-based enterprise, as well as private indemnity guidelines chiefly to pay the operational point in time dispersion. According to the briefing, the company’s indemnity universal minimal moratorium on the sale in 2009, and the cast rudimentally did not even dangerous.