by Zou himfr
Insurance businesses in 2008 the first annual report issued yesterday, income has shrunk substantially. March 26, China Life was held in Beijing in 2008 the functioning outcomes of the annual seminar, in Hong Kong accounting standards-based presentation report displayed that as at December 31, 2008, China Life’s total buying into earnings of 30.24 billion yuan more than 2007 was down 61.4 percent; snare earnings of 21.28 billion yuan, comprising a 45.3 per hundred down turn in 2007. Solvency in 2007 from 525% to 310%.
Decline in mesh yield changed by more elements
Not ideal but for as early as the expected profitability of, China Life Chairman Yang Chao said in the conference, as a result of the first half of the country in 2008 for the South experienced a disaster and frozen rain and snow “5.12″ Wen chun large earthquakes, and are rarely seen in the second half of the international financial crisis, making the operation of the development of China Life is facing unprecedented challenges. As of the end of 2008, China Life Insurance to pay a total of 11.916 million yuan compensation snowstorm, earthquake to pay a total of about 153 million claims; At the same time, adjustment of monetary and credit policy, exchange rates, changes in interest rates, the cost of factor prices brought about by changes to their varying degrees of impact.
As for the sharp decline in solvency, vice president of China Life Insurance Analysis Tak Liu pointed out that the depth of capital markets led to lower investment asset values have dropped sharply recognized and the rapid development of the company’s business is the main reason for the decline in solvency.
It was in addition ushered in in 2008 a immense shock to global capital markets, China Life Insurance is not financial endeavour, and sub-loan critical purpose is right away connected to the offshore bonds, equities and derivatives.
Modest financial endeavour in overseas
As can be observed from the report in 2008, China Life’s financial endeavour portfolio has modified highly, which allegations financial endeavour statements for 61.4% equity financial endeavour in 2007 from 23% to 8%. In the face of fiscal critical purpose, the nation life in time to acclimatise the financial endeavour strategy. Germany, as showed by Liu, the 2008 increment of the principle assets in fixed-income portion of species, embracing infrastructure strategies, for instance allegations, but in addition to award some of the privileges and welfare of timely financial endeavour wages group, but in addition slice interest rates before the advance of bank bank deposits and bond-type configuration. Nevertheless, the total financial endeavour wages was only 3.4%, and in 2007 was as high as 10.24%.
Investment scheme for 2009, Liu said Germany would adhere to the fixed-income assets founded buying into scheme, at the identical time will more nearly oversee the administration of the new buying into passages open to find, for example buying into in infrastructure, invest in unsecured bonds, genuine land parcel buying into, personal equity buying into possibilities for the new configuration. “We will search a better grade of buying into earnings to make up for in 2009 will face force 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 mentioned that in the overseas investment, will actively push forward the sound of overseas mergers and acquisitions and equity investments. Prior to this, China Life Insurance has announced it was abandoning a bid for AIG assets in Asia, Yang Chao in answer to a reporter’s question, said that overseas investment is the investment firm China Life Insurance direction, give up the AIA (AIA), does not mean that overseas investment is no longer China Life will do a good job in the domestic market on the basis of an appropriate investment overseas. Has now accumulated a lot of investment projects, the ongoing research in depth. At the same time, the listed company China Life has yet to strategic investors, hoping to find symmetric Yang Chao international strategic investors, but also require time and careful.
Unexpected boost 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 displays that in 2008 the initial protection agreement premiums of 295.579 billion yuan of earnings than the identical time span in 2007 increased 50.33%. “This development rate substantially exceeded the allowance of the Board of Directors handed out last year, the aim is 8% -10%.” Chao said such development, mostly in the Banking and Insurance passages due to the whole market natural environment impact. He accepted that for such blended outcomes, because the most of income is shiny wholesale protection to pay, not solely in holding with the development scheme of China Life place, but can not stop 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.