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Iris Tan
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Large Insurers Saw Modest Benefits From Tighter Liquidity in Money and Bond Market

In advance of the Fed rate hike, liquidity in China has been tightening since early November. To curb excess financial leverage in the capital market, the People's Bank of China, or PBOC, modestly lifted the seven-day repo rates recently. The rise in interbank market rates and accompanying regulations in wealth management products and insurers' unit-linked products also resulted in a recovery in bond yields from their decade low in August. Looking into 2017, we expect the PBOC will keep a tighte...
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China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Class A

China Life Insurance is engaged in the writing of life insurance business and provision of life, annuities, accident and health insurance products to individuals and groups in the People's Republic of China. Co. also provides individual and group accident and short-term health insurance policies as well as services. Co.'s businesses are organized into four main segments: Individual life insurance, Group life insurance, Short-term insurance and Corporate and other business. As of Dec 31 2010, Co. had approximately 129 million individual and group life insurance policies and annuities and long-term health insurance policies in force.

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