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Michael Wu
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Bank of East Asia Seeks Growth as the Worst of its Impaired Loans in China Are Behind it

Bank of East Asia reported a positive first-half result with stronger performance in Hong Kong offsetting a continued challenging operating environment in China. We revise our fair value to HKD 28.60 from HKD 24 as we lower our long-term capital structure assumption as the decline in risk weights resulted in an improvement in the bank's capital ratio. Our new capital structure assumption translates into common equity Tier 1 ratio closer to the high end of management's comfort level range of 14% ...
Underlying
Bank of East Asia Ltd.

Bank of East Asia is engaged in the provision of banking and related financial services, and business, corporate and investor services. Co. organizes its businesses into nine business segments: Personal banking, Corporate banking, Treasury markets, Wealth management, Financial institutions, Other Hong Kong banking operations, China operations, Overseas operations, and Corporate services. Co.'s other businesses include property-related business, supporting units of Hong Kong operations, investment properties, bank premises. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of HK$795,891,000,000.

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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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Michael Wu

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