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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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<ul><li>The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) disclosed 2Q24 insurance funds allocation and respective investment yields for the industry and for life and P&amp;C companies.</li><li>The financial rate of return marginally recovered from troughs in 1Q24 with the comprehensive yields remaining attractive at above 5%, given the prolonged low interest rate cycle.</li><li>We see robust growth of total insurance funds by +11.0% YoY in 2Q24 to RMB30.9tn, on par with total premium growth of +10.5% to RMB3.55tn. </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 National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) disclosed 2Q24 insurance funds allocation and respective investment yields for the industry and for life and P&amp;C companies.The financial rate of return marginally recovered from troughs in 1Q24 with the comprehensive yields remaining attractive at above 5%, given the prolonged low interest rate cycle.We see robust growth of total insurance funds by +11.0% YoY in 2Q24 to RMB30.9tn, on par with total premium growth of +10.5% to RMB3.55tn. 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 Insurance - ILife/P&C Diverged in Allocation; Financial Yields Marginally Recovered in 2Q

<ul><li>Life premiums exhibited resilience on high base in Jun and diverged amid top peers.</li><li>Ping An L&amp;H grew by 14.7% YoY in Jun (vs May: +10.4% YoY) thanks to life and health segments, which expanded +16.2%/+19.7% YoY in Jun (vs May: +10.6%/ +11.0% YoY).</li><li>We regard the premium pick-up a concomitant of the Group’s strategic initiatives on healthcare and elderly care, which have fostered new growth drivers with product mix to be further optimized. </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.

Life premiums exhibited resilience on high base in Jun and diverged amid top peers.Ping An L&amp;H grew by 14.7% YoY in Jun (vs May: +10.4% YoY) thanks to life and health segments, which expanded +16.2%/+19.7% YoY in Jun (vs May: +10.6%/ +11.0% YoY).We regard the premium pick-up a concomitant of the Group’s strategic initiatives on healthcare and elderly care, which have fostered new growth drivers with product mix to be further optimized. 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.

Insurance - 6M24 Monthly: Life Prints Better-Than-Expected on High Base; P&C Dragged by Auto Sales

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Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>The New/Better A-H Premium Tracker has tables, charts, measures galore to track A/H premium positioning, southbound and northbound positioning/volatility in pairs over time, etc.</li>
<li>SOUTHBOUND inflow continues, albeit smaller. Banks remain a big net buy. SOEs prominent in low overall SOUTHBOUND volume. </li>
<li>Wide spreads (high AH premium) saw H outperform, but narrow spreads saw Hs underperform quite significantly.</li>
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The New/Better A-H Premium Tracker has tables, charts, measures galore to track A/H premium positioning, southbound and northbound positioning/volatility in pairs over time, etc.
SOUTHBOUND inflow continues, albeit smaller. Banks remain a big net buy. SOEs prominent in low overall SOUTHBOUND volume. 
Wide spreads (high AH premium) saw H outperform, but narrow spreads saw Hs underperform quite significantly.


A/H Premium Tracker (To 28 Jun 2024):  AH Premia Still Rebounding But Wide Spreads Narrowing

<ul><li>China listed insurers reported monthly premiums in May, showing resilience of top life peers despite a high base under the pricing interest rate (PIR) cut last year.</li><li>P&amp;C growth marginally improved thanks to a sequential rebound in auto and certain lines’ recovery in non-auto segment.</li><li>Chinese regulator recently guided some insurance companies to lower the upper limit of PIR of increasing sum assured whole life plans (IWLPs) to 2.75% (vs now: 3.0%) with an intention to further reduce the cost of liabilities of the insurance industry. </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 listed insurers reported monthly premiums in May, showing resilience of top life peers despite a high base under the pricing interest rate (PIR) cut last year.P&amp;C growth marginally improved thanks to a sequential rebound in auto and certain lines’ recovery in non-auto segment.Chinese regulator recently guided some insurance companies to lower the upper limit of PIR of increasing sum assured whole life plans (IWLPs) to 2.75% (vs now: 3.0%) with an intention to further reduce the cost of liabilities of the insurance industry. 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 Insurance - 5M24 Monthly: Life Growth Stayed Resilient

<ul><li>Listed insurers reported 4M24 premiums with resilience shown among six life peers, of which the total premiums grew by +0.4% YoY to RMB 854.1bn swinging to a positive reading after three consecutive months in first quarter (Fig.1).</li><li>In Apr, total premiums of six listed life peers rose by +7.9% YoY to RMB 107.2bn (vs +3.0%/+6.6% YoY in Feb/Mar), despite a high base due to the PIR cut in 2Q23.</li><li>For life peers, we see divergence in growth, and regard it as progression in channel and product mix enhancement after the outpaced 1Q24 results. </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.

Listed insurers reported 4M24 premiums with resilience shown among six life peers, of which the total premiums grew by +0.4% YoY to RMB 854.1bn swinging to a positive reading after three consecutive months in first quarter (Fig.1).In Apr, total premiums of six listed life peers rose by +7.9% YoY to RMB 107.2bn (vs +3.0%/+6.6% YoY in Feb/Mar), despite a high base due to the PIR cut in 2Q23.For life peers, we see divergence in growth, and regard it as progression in channel and product mix enhancement after the outpaced 1Q24 results. 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 Insurance - 4M24 Life Diverged in Face of High Base

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China Pacific Insurance (Group) Company, Ltd. is an integrated insurance services provider. The Company offers life and property insurance products through its subsidiaries.

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The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) disclosed 2Q24 insurance funds allocation and respective investment yields for the industry...

CMB International

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Ping An L&H grew by 14.7% YoY in Jun (vs May: +10.4% YoY) thanks to life and health segments, which expanded +16.2%/+19.7% YoY in Jun (vs May:...

CMB International

A/H Premium Tracker (To 28 Jun 2024): AH Premia Still Rebounding But Wide Spreads Narrowing

AH Premia continue to gently rise, but the very wide spreads are seeing Hs outperform As. This "twist" is still a good strategy in my book. The...

Travis Lundy

China Insurance - 5M24 Monthly: Life Growth Stayed Resilient

China listed insurers reported monthly premiums in May, showing resilience of top life peers despite a high base under the pricing interest rate...

CMB International

China Insurance - 4M24 Life Diverged in Face of High Base

In Apr, total premiums of six listed life peers rose by +7.9% YoY to RMB 107.2bn (vs +3.0%/+6.6% YoY in Feb/Mar), despite a high base due to the...

CMB International

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