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 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 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 buying into in overseas
As can be glimpsed from the report in 2008, China Life’s buying into portfolio has altered substantially, which assertions buying into anecdotes for 61.4% equity buying into in 2007 from 23% to 8%. In the face of economic urgent position, the homeland life in time to adapt the buying into strategy. Germany, as asserted by Liu, the 2008 increment of the major assets in fixed-income share of species, encompassing infrastructure designs, for example assertions, but furthermore to respect some of the privileges and concerns of timely buying into earnings class, but furthermore slash interest rates before the boost of bank down payments and bond-type configuration. Nevertheless, the total buying into earnings was only 3.4%, and in 2007 was as high as 10.24%.
Investment strategy for 2009, Liu said Germany would adhere to the fixed-income assets based investment strategy, at the same time will more closely supervise the management of the new investment channels open to find, such as investment in infrastructure, invest in unsecured bonds, real estate investment, private equity investment opportunities for the new configuration. “We will seek a better level of investment income to make up for in 2009 will face pressure on profits.”
Tak Liu notified reporters that China Life would grab the new “Insurance Law” to expand buying into passages of protection businesses this beneficial opening, particularly for genuine land parcel buying into and infrastructure buying into 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 advance 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 aimed at in 2009 in alignment to accomplish a glossy scale of enterprise development, change of enterprise structure, to guard against operational dangers to determination business-oriented development strategy. Pay vigilance to the enterprise to evolve long-term time span, risk-based enterprise, as well as individual protection principles mostly to pay the operational stage dispersion. According to the briefing, the company’s protection universal rudimentary moratorium on the sale in 2009, and the cast fundamentally did not even dangerous.