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Iris Tan
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AIA’s Australian Acquisition Boosts our Long-Term Outlook for the Company

AIA’s purchase of Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s life insurance business is a positive, with the acquisition boosting the largest Pan-Asian life insurer’s long-term outlook, in our view. The deal helped AIA better cope with rising concentration from the greater China region which contributed about 68% of new business value and annualized new premium during first-half 2017. It improves its capital efficiency, which posted average return on equity at 11.3% and return on assets at 2.1% for the pa...
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AIA Group Limited

AIA Group is an investment holding company. Co. is a life insurance based financial services provider operating throughout the Asia Pacific region. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in writing of life insurance business; providing life insurance, pension, accident and health insurance and savings plans throughout Asia; and distributing related investment and other financial services products to its customers. Through a network across Asia-Pacific, Co. serves the holders of over 28 million individual policies and over 16 million participating members of group policies. As of Nov 30 2013, Co. had operations in 17 markets throughout Asia-Pacific region.

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Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Iris Tan

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