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 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 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 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.