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China Taiping Insurance
Holdings Company Limited
2018 Interim Results Presentation
23 August, 2018
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This presentation and subsequent discussions may contain certain
forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition,
results of operations and businesses of China Taiping Insurance Holdings
Company Limited. These forward-looking statements represent the
Company’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events and involve
known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed
or implied in such statements
Forward-looking Statements
Simplified Company Structure
Note (1):Ageas owns the remaining 24.9%, 20% and 20% equity interests in TPL, TPFS and TPAM, respectively. Note (2):PT Megah Putra Manunggal owns the remaining 45% equity interest in TP Indonesia. Note (3):TPSM and TPR (BJ) are wholly-owned subsidiaries of TPL. CTIH’s effective interest in TPSM and TPR (BJ) is 75.1%. Note (4):TPIH (HK) and TPL own 61% and 39% of the equity interests of TPR (SH), respectively. CTIH’s effective interest in TPR (SH) is 90.3%. Note (5):TPL, TPI and TPPM own 60%, 20% and 20% of the equity interests in TPR (Suzhou), respectively. CTIH’s effective interest in TPR (Suzhou) is 85.1%. Note (6):TPL and TPI own 80% and 20% of the equity interests in TPR (Nanning), respectively. CTIH’s effective interest in TPR (Nanning) is 80.1%. Note (7):Sinopec Group Company owns the remaining 50% equity interests in TSFL. Note (8):TPL and TPI own 60% and 40% of the equity interests in TPIH, respectively. CTIH’s effective interest in TPIH is 85.1%. Note (9):In addition to operating its own business lines, TPIH (HK), TPSM and TPP also act as investment platforms in the asset management business. Note (10):Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc. owns the remaining 49% effective equity interests in TP Starr Insurance Agency. Note (11):The above structure was as of 30 June 2018.
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Highlights and Consolidated Results of Operations
Operating Profit Grew Rapidly and Overall Strength Continuously Enhanced
Profit attributable to owners was HK$5.209 billion, increased by 120.3% over the Last Period
Total premiums written and policy fees reached HK$130.1 billion, increased by 14.1% over the Last Period
Total assets were HK$724.0 billion, increased by 8.6% over the 2017 year-end
Group embedded value per share attributable to owners was HK$37.4, increased by 7.2% over the 2017 year-end figure of HK$34.9, while TPL’s embedded value increased by 10.3% over the 2017 year-end
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Highlights and Consolidated Results of Operations (Cont’d)
PRC Insurance Businesses Scale Outperformed the Market, Quality of Business Continued Improving Direct premium of the life insurance increased by 3.0% over the Last Period, 11.5 percentage
points higher than market average
First year premium from individual insurance decreased by 9.2% over the Last Period, outperforming major peers; individual insurance agents increased by 6.6% over the 2017 year-end, with growth rate leading its major peers
Four persistency ratios of the individual agency and bancassurance channels were industry-leading; renewal premium increased by 49.2% over the Last Period
Single premium business of bancassurance has been cancelled and fully transformed to regular premium business, new business structure has been optimised significantly
Long term employee benefit of group business increased by 47.8% over the Last Period, with regular premium increased by 58.8% over the Last Period
Direct premium of the PRC property and casualty insurance increased by 16.8% over the Last Period, 2.6 percentage points higher than market average, achieving continual underwriting profit
5 Note: All data related in this page is stated in RMB, if not specified
Highlights and Consolidated Results of Operations (Cont’d)
Oversea Insurance Businesses Developed Rapidly, Strength of International Operations Continued Enhanced CTPI (HK)’s direct premium growth rate surpassed the market average and achieving continual
underwriting profit
TPL (HK) achieved a premium income of HK$1.027 billion and further enhanced its overall strength
TP Macau’s premium income sustained its market leadership, with a combined ratio of 64.7% and continuous outstanding underwriting result
TP Singapore’s premium income outperformed the market, with rapid premium growth in offshore business, while maintaining underwriting profitability
TP UK’s new business segment has achieved remarkable results, with premium increased by 75.3% over the Last Period
TP Indonesia’s combined ratio at 50.1%, underwriting profitability maintained at an excellent level
TPRe maintained No.1 in the Hong Kong reinsurance market, with premium growth of 30.1%. The property and casualty reinsurance business grew by 41.6% over the Last Period, with combined ratio remained at a relatively good level
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Highlights and Consolidated Results of Operations (Cont’d)
Steady Growth of Investment Asset Scale, Investment Income Significantly Increased over the Last Period The asset scale achieved a steady growth. At the end of June, the total investment assets of the
Group is HK$577.0 billion, increased by 6.9% over the 2017 year-end; asset under management from third-party asset management business amounted to HK$424.5 billion, increased by 2.4% over the 2017 year-end
Investment income increased significantly over the Last Period. During the first half of 2018, the Group recorded an investment income of HK$13.171 billion, representing a growth of 56.9% over the Last Period, and net investment income of HK$12.416 billion, representing an increase of 27.8% over the Last Period, which indicates that the Group has well coped with the market fluctuations and laid the foundation of its income growth base
Traditional and alternative investments were prudent and active. During the first half of 2018, traditional investments outperformed the market, PRC equity investment yield outperformed CSI 300 by 2.96 percentage points; PRC held-for-trading and available-for-sale bond portfolio outperformed the CSI Bond Fund Index by 1.08 percentage points; alternative investments were inline with national strategies, which gained good returns and social effect
Fixed income asset’s credit risk were relatively low. High proportion of PRC bonds investment were with high credit ratings, the Group’s credit risk screening results shows solid credit risk management
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Highlights and Consolidated Results of Operations (Cont’d)
Pioneering and Deepening of the Group Strategic Cooperation and Cross-selling Initiatives
In the first half of 2018, China Taiping signed Group Strategic Cooperation Agreements with China National Aviation Fuel Group. As at the end of June, China Taiping had established strategic cooperation relationships with 85 large clients
Our cross-selling initiatives achieved HK$3.637 billion insurance sales, including HK$2.913 billion of property insurance sales through TPL, HK$627 million of pension sales through TPL, HK$73 million of property insurance sales through TPP and HK$24 million of pension sales through TPI
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HK$ million 1H2018
1H2017
(Restated) Change
Life insurance 5,736.24 1,673.99 +242.7%
Pension and group life insurance 54.14 60.87 -11.1%
PRC property and casualty insurance 205.17 202.11 +1.5%
Overseas property and casualty insurance
246.37 242.92 +1.4%
Reinsurance 401.92 478.00 -15.9%
Asset management business 264.59 249.68 +6.0%
Others* (32.21) 179.34 -118.0%
Net profit from operations 6,876.22 3,086.91 +122.8%
Non-controlling interests (1,667.11) (722.40) +130.8%
Net profit attributable to the owners 5,209.11 2,364.51 +120.3%
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Net Profit by Business Segment
* Others mainly include the operating results of the holding company, TPFS, TPIH (HK), TPFH and consolidation adjustments
• TPL
• TPL (HK)
Life Insurance Business Review
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Note: The Group holds 75.1% of the equity interest in TPL, and 100% in TPL (HK)
The following figures are the results of TPL and TPL(HK) from its operations, before intra-group eliminations
TPL: Premium Growth Outperformed the Market; Solvency
Remained Healthy
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Direct Premiums Written
( HK$ million)
Comprehensive Solvency Ratio
C-Ross
* Increasing by 3.0% calculated in RMB
99,894
89,267
1H2018 1H2017
+11.9%* 235%
246%
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017
Further Increase in Proportion of Individual Business
TPL: Structure of Gross Premiums – By Distribution Channels
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1H2017 1H2018
1,358 2,243
32,371 19,259
55,538 78,392
(HK$ million,%)
Individual
Group and other channels*
Bancassurance
* Other channels is mainly telemarketing
1H2017 1H2018
62%
36%
2%
79%
19%
2%
94%
96% 96%
89%
92% 94%
At 31 Dec 2016 At 31 Dec 2017 At 30 Jun 2018
Persistency ratio – 13th month
Persistency ratio – 25th month
95% 96%
97%
89%
92%
94%
At 31 Dec 2016 At 31 Dec 2017 At 30 Jun 2018
Persistency ratio – 13th month
Persistency ratio – 25th month
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TPL: Persistency Ratios Kept Leading the Industry
Individual Bancassurance
Note: According to communications with peers, TPL was No.1 in both Individual and Bancassurance Channels in terms of 13th month persistency ratio
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Embedded Value
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017
(HK$ million)
偿二代
TPL: Growth of In-Force Business Promoted Growth of
Embedded Value
Adjusted Net Worth
In-force Business
Value
129,418
117,368
+10.3%
69,611
47,757
77,880
51,538
+11.9%
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TPL: New Business Value Slightly Decreased Due to the Scale of
New Policies; NBV Margin Kept Improving
NBV Margin
1H2017 1H2018
(HK$ million)
C-Ross C-Ross C-Ross
Note: the major economic assumptions and methodology used in the calculation of new business value in the first half of 2017 were consistent with current assumptions and methodology, hereinafter inclusive unless otherwise specified
New Business Value
8,115 -6.8%
1H2017* 1H2018
7,563
27.7%
29.9% +2.2pp
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First Year Premium
TPL Individual Channel: First Year Premium Declined Slightly;
Proportion of Protection Business Further
Increased
First Year Regular Premium Structure
(%)
55.7%
0.1%
55.3%
(HK$ Million)
Short term savings
Others
Long term savings
Long term protection
22,111 22,414
1H2018 1H2017
-1.4%
1H2017 1H2018
4.1%
29.4%
0.1%
8.2%
35.9%
55.9% 66.4%
+6.5pp
55.9%
TPL Individual Channel: First Year Premium for Health Insurance
Grew Substantially and its Proportion Increased Significantly
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Individual Health Insurance First Year Premium
(HK$ Million)
Others
Health Insurance
Individual First Year Premium Structure
(%)
1H2017 1H2018
81.4%
18.6%
58.7%
41.3% +22.7pp
1H2017 1H2018
4,186
9,280
+121.7%
Year Distribution of Critical Illness In-force Business
Insurers’ Age Distribution of Critical Illness In-force Business
TPL Individual Channel: Critical Illness Insurance New Business Grew Rapidly;
Actual Experience and Pricing Assumption for Insurers’ Age Closely Matched
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Note: 1. based on all in-force critical illness insurance policies as of 30 Jun 2018 2. Figures may not match totals due to rounding
36.2% 46.0%
26.4%
24.1%
25.7%
21.9%
14.9%
10.3%
14.2%
7.5% 6.1%
7.3%
17.3% 12.0%
30.2%
Coverage Premium Policy
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 and above
35.8%
18.9% 29.5%
10.1%
7.2%
8.7%
16.0%
14.9%
16.3%
23.4%
29.0%
24.6%
12.1%
22.6% 16.5%
2.6% 7.4% 4.4%
Coverage Premium Policy
Age 0-9 Age 10-19 Age 20-29
Age 30-39 Age 40-49 Age 50 and above
TPL Individual Channel: Agency Force Continually Increased; High
Productivity Agents Decreased Slightly
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Number of Agents Number of High
Productivity Agents*
(person) (person)
* High productivity agent refers to agent with RMB300,000 FYP and above
409,486
384,169
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017
+6.6%
9,483
10,985
At 30 Jun 2017 At 30 Jun 2018
-13.7%
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After manpower integration in the first quarter, total agents of individual insurance had achieved breakthrough growth since April 2018, reaching 409,486 as of the end of June
Paying highly attention to foundational management, advocating effective recruitment and improving new agent retention to continually promote the effectiveness of the Basic Law and build a multi-channel sales force
Creating a 12-month production line for new staff and promoting standard training to improve the self-management ability of supervisors and establish an "effective" workforce
10 Thousand Agents
TPL Individual Channel: Agency Force Trend and Development
27.1
31.4 33.0
34.0
37.3
39.1 39.2 40.6
39.8 39.0
37.9 38.4
35.7 34.5 34.8 35.1
37.0
40.9
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
45.0
201701 201702 201703 201704 201705 201706 201707 201708 201709 201710 201711 201712 201801 201802 201803 201804 201805 201806
Key Indicators
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1H2017 1H2018
6th Month Retention Rate 82.0% 78.2%
13th Month Retention Rate 48.7% 48.0%
24th Month Retention Rate 24.0% 27.8%
Monthly Overall Activation Ratio 56.4% 52.9%
Agents With Monthly RMB 10K Sales (Regular Premium) 73,321 80,476
Agents With Annual RMB 1MM Sales (Regular Premium) 2,446 2,283
Note: 1. Productivity data in this page is stated in RMB 2. Data from this page to page 22 is from traditional individual channel and does not include the Sinopec gas station project
3. Regular premium in this page is company’s assessment indicator, which is calculated as “FYP+Single Premium*0.1”
TPL Individual Channel: Key Indicators
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Individual NBV Margin
TPL Individual Channel: NBV Margin Remained Relatively Stable
1H2017 1H2018
34.6% 34.0% -0.6pp
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(%)
First Year Regular Premium
(HK$ million)
Premium Structure
First year regular premium
Renewal regular premium
Single premium
TPL Bancassurance Channel: Fully Transformed to Regular
Premium Business; Business Structure Improved Significantly
3,506
4,377
1H2018 1H2017
-19.9%
1H2017 1H2018
52.1%
13.5%
0.1%
81.7%
18.2%
34.4%
(HK$ million) 1H2017 1H2018 YoY Growth Percentage
Single Premium 16,864 25 -99.9% 0.1%
Regular Premium 15,507 19,234 24.0% 99.9%
With full transformation to regular premium for bancassurance in the first half of 2018,
regular premium increased by 24.0% as compared with the last period and accounted for
99.9% of the total premium
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TPL Bancassurance Channel: Stick to Value Growth
TPL Products : Promoted Product Structure Transformation towards Value
Growth; Promoted Normal Operation of Individual Long-term Protection
Business by Focusing on Customers’ Health Protection Needs
Note: Long-term protection products refer to the products of illness insurance, accident insurance, term life insurance and whole life insurance with an insurance period of more than one year
In 1H2018, our insurance continued to focus on the needs of our customers for health protection. We promoted normal operation of long-term insurance products, and achieved a steady growth in sales
Among the top five selling products during the 1H2018, we have three long-term protection products for critical illnesses
Long-term Protection Products FYP
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6,565
7,908 +20.5%
1H2017 1H2018
(HK$ million)
TPL Products : Promoted Product Structure Transformation towards Value
Growth; Business Mix Outperformed the Market
Bancassurance Regular Products Structure
Bancassurance was
concentrating on developing regular premium in 2018
For regular premium business, long-term products dominate, with 10 years and above products accounted for 43.5%, outperformed the market
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46.8%
43.5%
9.7%
5-9 years 10 years above Others
TPL Products: Focus on Support Growth of Core Value Business and
Improvement of Quality
Bancassurance Product
Individual Product
Make great efforts to develop regular premium business, especially core value regular premium products
By meeting the needs of customers in wealth inheritance, retirement savings and health protection, enrich and improve product types
Focusing on customer demand for health protection to continuously optimise product structure and support synergetic development between scale and value
Strengthen the innovation of protection products, increase the supply of products, continue brand building and business development
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28 * Does not include universal life premiums
TPL (HK): The Ranking and Influence Improved
Total Assets
In 1H2018, TPL (HK) achieved a premium income of HK$1.027 billion and further enhanced its overall strength
The direct premiums written including universal life premiums achieved HK$3,839 million, representing an increase of 237.1% compared with the Last Period
The ranking and influence continued to improve with asset scale exceeding HK$20 billion
Direct Premiums Written*
(HK$ million) (HK$ million)
20,349
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017
+75.8%
11,578
1,027
1H2018 1H2017
-0.6%
1,033
• TPI
Mainland P&C Insurance Business Review
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Note:The Group holds the 100% equity interest of TPI
The following figures are the results of TPI from its operations, before intra-group eliminations
Direct Premiums Written
(HK$ million)
Comprehensive Solvency Ratio
TPI: Premium Growth Outperformed the Market; Solvency
Remained Sufficient
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203%
At 30 Jun 2018
216%
At 31 Dec 2017
15,323
12,082
1H2018 1H2017
+26.8%
Combined Ratio
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TPI: Combined Ratio Kept Stable; Continued Making Underwriting
Profits
Expense Ratio Loss Ratio
48.9% 53.0%
49.9% 46.5%
At 30 Jun 2017 At 30 Jun 2018
98.8% 99.5% 99.8% 99.8% 99.8% 99.5% 99.5%
At 30 Jun 2018
2017 2016 2015 2014
Trend of Combined Ratio
Overseas P&C Insurance and Reinsurance Businesses Review
HK & Macau
• CTPI (HK)
• TP Macau
Overseas
• TP Singapore
• TP UK
• TP Indonesia
Reinsurance
• TPRe
• TPRe (China)
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Note:The Group holds 55% of the equity interest in TP Indonesia, and 100% in the other companies listed above
The following figures are the results of each company from its operations, before intra-group eliminations
1,736
1,212
524
2,019
1,324
695
Overseas P&C HK & Macau Other Overseas
1H2017 1H2018
+16.3%
+32.6%
+9.2%
Overseas P&C Insurance and Reinsurance: P&C Premiums Steady
Increasing; Reinsurance Developed Rapidly
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Overseas P&C Direct Premiums Written
(HK$ million)
Reinsurance Premiums Written*
(HK$ million)
* Including business of TPRe (China) and excluding universal insurance
1H2017 1H2018
2,555 2,861
6,565
8,538
+30.1%
4,010
5,677
Non-life
Life
Combined Ratio
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Overseas P&C Insurance and Reinsurance: Combined Ratios
Increased; Continued to Maintain Overall Underwriting Profitability
94.2% 96.4%
94.9% 92.9% 94.0%
95.1%
97.9% 96.8%
Other Overseas
+2.2pp +0.2pp +5.0pp +2.8pp
* Non-life reinsurance business
Overseas P&C and Re HK & Macau Reinsurance*
1H2017 1H2018
• TPP
Pension and Group Insurance Businesses Review
Note: The Group holds 100% of the equity interest in TPP
35 The following figures are the results of TPP from its operations, before intra-group eliminations
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TPP: Premium Income and Assets Under Management for Annuity
Kept Steady Growth
(HK$ million)
Annuity Entrusted Assets Annuity Invested Assets
(HK$ million) (HK$ million)
Premiums Written
75,373
72,357
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017
+4.2%
92,828
92,054
+0.8%
At 30 Jun 2018 At 31 Dec 2017 1H2018 1H2017
3,145
+11.0% 3,491
Investment
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% of Total At 31 Dec 2017
At 30 Jun 2018
Fixed income 79.0% 81.0%
Debt securities 45.4% 47.4%
Term deposits 9.9% 10.7%
Debt products 16.6% 14.8%
Other fixed income investments 7.1% 8.1%
Equity investments 14.0% 16.1%
Equity securities 4.8% 5.6%
Investment funds 2.2% 3.0%
Other equity investments 7.0% 7.5%
Investment properties 3.7% 3.5%
Cash, cash equivalents and others 3.3% -0.6%
Cash, cash equivalents 5.3% 3.5% Securities purchased under resale agreements/ securities sold under
repurchase agreements -2.0% -4.1%
Total 100.0% 100.0%
(HK$ million)
Insurance Funds Allocation
Note: Excluding funds used in operations, which includes cash, demand deposits and term deposits, of HK$9.78 billion (2017 year-end: HK$7.26 billion), and the effect of consolidation adjustment
Allocation of Group’s
Insurance Funds
577,035 +6.9%
539,930
At 31 Dec 2017 At 30 Jun 2018
Annualised total investment yield 4
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Note: 1. Including the income from the spread of investment securities, gain or loss on changes in fair value and impairment loss
2. Including the interest income from deposit, interest income from bonds, dividends from equity investments, rental income from investment properties and deducting interest expense on securities sold under resale agreements
3. Including interest generated from funds for daily operations, but excluding income from insurance asset management products, funds, equity schemes that has been classified as share of results from associates and joint ventures
4. In the calculation of investment yield, as the denominator, the average investment assets takes into account the effect of securities purchased under resale agreements and securities sold under repurchase agreements. When annualising the investment yield, the interest income from deposit, interest income from bonds and rental income from investment properties and deduction of interest expense on securities sold under resale agreements were multiplied by two, while the dividend from equity investments remained unchanged.
(HK$ million)
Net Realised and unrealised investment gains 1
Net investment income 2
Investment Income
9,718
12,416
(1,325)
755
3
8,393
13,171
56.9%
4.01% 4.40%
1H2017 1H2018
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(Restated)
PRC bonds investment represented 83.7% of the total debt investment. Within the PRC bonds, 99.7% were high rating bonds, such as government bonds, financial policy bonds, interbank deposits, bonds with AAA ratings and A-1 short-term financing bonds. Investment grade bonds with BBB ratings or higher reached 100%
Foreign bonds investment constitutes 16.3% of the total debt investment, of which 71% were investment grade with international ratings, while the remaining were issued by government and large corporations, with adequate credit enhancements
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Debt Investments: High Credit Ratings of Debt Asset
Credit Ratings of PRC Bonds
30.0%
24.0%
1.8%
43.7%
0.3% 0.2%
Financial Policy Bonds
Interbank Deposits
AAA AA+ A-1 Government Bonds
Allocation of alternative investments
Regarding asset types, infrastructure creditor’s scheme and real estate creditor’s scheme accounted for 42.1%, trust plans accounted for 33.1%, asset management products and asset support scheme took a share of 11.8%, and the rest of 13.0% are overseas bond fund and convertible bonds
In terms of credit enhancement, quasi central government debts/bank guarantee and credit enhancement free products cover 25.4%, large-scale enterprise guarantee covers 13.1%, local state-owned enterprise and other guarantee products 43.0%, mortgage/pledge products 14.8%, the others 2.8%, and non-credit enhancement only 0.9%
Real Estate Financial Investment Debt Products
Real estate financial investment debt products of approximately HK$18.8 billion, represented only 2.6% of the total assets
The credit ratings of the real estate financial investment debt products were relative high, with major projects located in tier 1 or developed tier 2 cities
Purchased External Financial Products
Purchased external financial products of about HK$34.2 billion represented 4.7% of the total assets, the ratio decreased by 0.1 percentage point over the 2017 year-end
Within the purchased external projects, 97.8% of them were with AAA ratings, mainly were from real estate, transportation, non-bank financial industry etc
Note: Including exposures to each other, which is not directly in the total
Alternative investments proportion decreased slightly, with structure improved Alternative investments held by the Group amounted to HK$148.7 billion, representing approximately 20.5% of the
total assets. From which the ratio of trust products and special asset support plan financial products increased The credit ratings of the PRC financial investment debt products remained relatively high, products rated AAA
accounted for 93.6%, products rated AA+ accounted for 6.4%
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Alternative Investments
Alternative investments risk remained at a low level
Outlook
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Outlook
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In-depth Implementation of the “Top-Quality Strategy” and Strive to Build the “Four Taiping”
Currently, China insurance industry is at a period with important development opportunities. Taking TPG being one of the Fortune Global 500 as a new start, China Taiping will continue promoting the “Top-quality Strategy”, seek progress along with stability, adhere to quality development and the customer-oriented strategy to take great efforts to develop the core business, promote reform and innovation as well as continue strengthening the risk prevention and control in key areas, striving to create “State-owned Enterprise Taiping”, “Technology Taiping”, “Healthy Taiping” and “International Taiping” and make the steady progress in building the first-class finance and insurance group with global competitiveness
TPL
With a focus on protection products, TPL will continue promoting the optimisation of business structure and improving the new business value to ensure the healthy and rapid development of the main business
Further reinforce manpower and strengthen talents building to drive business development to enter into a new era
Further break the tradition in respect of service support, archive the innovative development and continue creating a “customer-oriented” service system
Outlook (Cont’d)
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TPI Proactively response to the new round of motor insurance rates reform, enhance the
innovation and professionalism of channels, improve the quotation management capability as well as actively develop the high quality segment of non-motor insurances business to archive a steady growth
Continue to promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement, strengthen the cost management and technology empowerment, improve the operating efficiency and the quality of customer service, with an aim to consolidate the profit base and to promote the high quality development
TPP Expand, optimise and strengthen the scale of pension assets under management, actively
promote the diversified development of pension business, actively deploy the occupational annuity business and strive to achieve the strategy of “Competing at an advanced level”
Continue to optimise the core business structure of group insurance, the business model and operation service, put more efforts in the expansion of worksite marketing channels and intensify the endogenous driving force for the development of the company
Outlook (Cont’d)
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Overseas Business TPL (HK) further improve the comprehensive management capability, strengthen the channel
construction and channel productivity, and actively develop the business in Macao so as to continuously increase the market influence
Leveraging national policy benefits, overseas non-life insurance companies expanded local business with greater efforts while intensively developing Chinese interests business to further expand the international influence of Taiping brand
CTPI (HK) and TP Macau secure the opportunities under the policies of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area, actively explore new growth potential to ensure market leadership. TP Singapore, TP UK and TP Indonesia firmly seize the opportunity of “The Belt and Road” and serve the national strategy of “Going Global” to proactively provide risk protection and service for Chinese business and strive for greater market competitiveness
Reinsurance Business TPRe will continue to promote the global business layout, transform from a market follower to a
market leader, pursue comprehensive development in both property & casualty and life insurance with striving for simultaneous growth both in scale and profits
TPRe (China) will increase the innovation in reinsurance products and technology, fulfill responsibilities as a state-owned enterprise to play an active role in protecting people’s livelihood and continue boosting market influence
Outlook (Cont’d)
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Investment In the second half of the year, while the global economy continued recovering, and China’s economy
maintained steady growth, uncertainties increased as trade conflicts strengthened the continued impact on the capital market. Under this background, the Group will pay more attention to the value and prudent of equity investment, give full play to long-term investment advantage of insurance funds and deploy leading enterprises with obvious competitiveness at an appropriate time; continue to increase the allocation efforts of bond investment, pay attention to the long-term returns, optimise the allocation structure and spare no efforts in the duration and variety selection
In respect of alternative investment, the main investment strategy is to provide service for the real economy according to national strategies, with priorities to important investment opportunities such as supply-side structural reform, the Belt and Road, Hainan free port and national strategic industrial fund, and at the same time make use of the advantages of comprehensive financial layout and seek for retirement community and medical health high-quality bids which can create synergistic effects to the main business of insurance
As for the real estate investment, on the one hand, we will continue to focus on the first-tier cities and high quality office buildings in core areas of some second-tier cities; on the second hand, we will seize policy opportunities to carry out research and deployment in the long-term rental housing investment
Following the spirits of the Central Economic Working Conference and National Finance Working Conference, we will proactively prevent and dissolve major risks, especially the credit default risk, carry out checking and ruling out of stock assets repeatedly, make sustained efforts to promote the infrastructure construction of risk control information, adhere to the principle of “through to the end”, figure out the risk limit and prevent the systematic risks and material risks
Questions and Answers
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