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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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China Life Insurance Company / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>China Life disclosed 3Q results with net profit attributable to shareholders declined by 36.0% YoY in 9M23, indicating a net loss of RMB610mn in 3Q23 (vs a net gain of RMB16.2bn in 3Q22).</li><li>The drop under the old standard was sharper, shown as - 47.8%/-99.1 YoY in 9M/3Q23. We see the 3Q net earnings setback a result of: 1) pressured investment income, with total investment yield down to 2.81%, -1.22pct/- 0.52pct from 9M22/1H23; and 2) enlarged impairment loss on equities of RMB19.7bn in 3Q, versus RMB9.1bn in 2Q (+117% QoQ).</li><li>Despite investment underperformance, the company showed in-line NBV growth by +14.0% YoY in 9M23, driven by +14.8% YoY in first-year premiums (FYP). We estimate that 3Q NBV was down by ~6% YoY, possibly caused by certain demands released in advance before Jul 31. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Life disclosed 3Q results with net profit attributable to shareholders declined by 36.0% YoY in 9M23, indicating a net loss of RMB610mn in 3Q23 (vs a net gain of RMB16.2bn in 3Q22).The drop under the old standard was sharper, shown as - 47.8%/-99.1 YoY in 9M/3Q23. We see the 3Q net earnings setback a result of: 1) pressured investment income, with total investment yield down to 2.81%, -1.22pct/- 0.52pct from 9M22/1H23; and 2) enlarged impairment loss on equities of RMB19.7bn in 3Q, versus RMB9.1bn in 2Q (+117% QoQ).Despite investment underperformance, the company showed in-line NBV growth by +14.0% YoY in 9M23, driven by +14.8% YoY in first-year premiums (FYP). We estimate that 3Q NBV was down by ~6% YoY, possibly caused by certain demands released in advance before Jul 31. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Life (2628 HK) – 3Q NP Dragged by Investment Setbacks

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<ul><li>The NAFR announced Life and P&amp;C premium income of all registered insurers in Sep, showing trends that: 1) the liability side of the sector continued to improve, despite recent regulatory tightening on channels, products and agent behaviour.</li><li>Personal life reversed a negative monthly YoY from -0.2% in 8M23 to +0.9% in 9M23 (Fig 1), and P&amp;C strengthened growth to +5.9% YoY in 9M23 (vs +3.2% YoY in 8M23), driven by an upward auto growth of 6.9% YoY in 9M23; 2) total investment assets expanded to RMB27.2tn in 9M23, up 8.5% from 12M22, with allocation in bonds increased to 44.0% in 9M23 (vs 43.6% in 8M23), and in stocks and equity funds down to 12.8% (-0.1pct from 8M23, Fig 15).</li><li>We believe the upward trend in long-term yields, evidenced by GCNY10 staying above 2.7% since mid Oct (Fig 18), will continue to benefit investment returns and asset performances of the sector, to serve as a shore-up for the sector’s valuation.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

The NAFR announced Life and P&amp;C premium income of all registered insurers in Sep, showing trends that: 1) the liability side of the sector continued to improve, despite recent regulatory tightening on channels, products and agent behaviour.Personal life reversed a negative monthly YoY from -0.2% in 8M23 to +0.9% in 9M23 (Fig 1), and P&amp;C strengthened growth to +5.9% YoY in 9M23 (vs +3.2% YoY in 8M23), driven by an upward auto growth of 6.9% YoY in 9M23; 2) total investment assets expanded to RMB27.2tn in 9M23, up 8.5% from 12M22, with allocation in bonds increased to 44.0% in 9M23 (vs 43.6% in 8M23), and in stocks and equity funds down to 12.8% (-0.1pct from 8M23, Fig 15).We believe the upward trend in long-term yields, evidenced by GCNY10 staying above 2.7% since mid Oct (Fig 18), will continue to benefit investment returns and asset performances of the sector, to serve as a shore-up for the sector’s valuation.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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China Life Insurance Company Ltd. offers a wide range of life, accident, and health insurance products and services.

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