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Iris Tan
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Tighter Regulations on UnionPay Purchase for Mainland Visitors Should Have Manageable Impact on AIA

We maintain our HKD 52 per share fair value estimate for AIA following the introduction of stricter controls for mainland visitors purchasing insurance policies via UnionPay. As we state in our investment thesis, we believe the robust growth of mainland visitor sales in Hong Kong market was partially driven by rush orders since the regulations started to tighten in early 2016. This should not be sustainable in the longer term: The government will pay rising attention to capital account movement ...
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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

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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