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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>In 1-2M26, total insurance premiums amounted to RMB1.64tn, up 8.4% YoY with Feb premium income up 0.8% YoY (vs. Jan: +11.6%) partly due to the impact of Chinese New Year (Feb: 16 working days).</li><li>Personal life and P&amp;C industry premiums growth diverged by +10.2%/-1.4% YoY to RMB1.4tn/RMB240bn in 1-2M26 given the strength in Life jumpstart sales and weakened UW demands from auto insurance.</li><li>We have observed three key trends in the industry for the first two months incl. 1) Life growth sustained in double-digit (+10.9%) driven by resilient savings demands amid the trend of deposit migration; 2) P&amp;C weakened (-1.4%) as auto premiums dipped for two consecutive months (Jan/Feb: -0.8%/-1.1%) due to the lackluster new vehicle sales; 3) P&amp;C Health drove non-auto premium growth up by 20.5% YoY in 1-2M26, signalling upside potential amid deepening cooperation between basic medical and commercial health. </li></ul><p><em>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.</em></p>

In 1-2M26, total insurance premiums amounted to RMB1.64tn, up 8.4% YoY with Feb premium income up 0.8% YoY (vs. Jan: +11.6%) partly due to the impact of Chinese New Year (Feb: 16 working days).Personal life and P&amp;C industry premiums growth diverged by +10.2%/-1.4% YoY to RMB1.4tn/RMB240bn in 1-2M26 given the strength in Life jumpstart sales and weakened UW demands from auto insurance.We have observed three key trends in the industry for the first two months incl. 1) Life growth sustained in double-digit (+10.9%) driven by resilient savings demands amid the trend of deposit migration; 2) P&amp;C weakened (-1.4%) as auto premiums dipped for two consecutive months (Jan/Feb: -0.8%/-1.1%) due to the lackluster new vehicle sales; 3) P&amp;C Health drove non-auto premium growth up by 20.5% YoY in 1-2M26, signalling upside potential amid deepening cooperation between basic medical and commercial health. 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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