Life insurance profit from lower medical claims. Believe it or not, medical claims is actually largest claims component for almost all life insurance companies in Malaysia. There is actually limited first year profit from life insurance, due to the high acquisition cost. In fact, first year profit for new business is usually negative instead.
Sales might slow down this year, but it will actually look good on IFRS profit. Life insurance in Malaysia (and especially Allianz) is heavily focus on investment linked products with recurring premium. i.e. business sold last year, or even 10-20 years ago, will still generate profit this year. However, investment linked products (with high profit margin) only started to gain the traction in past 10 years, while long before that, insurance companies were selling products with significantly lesser profit margin.
Allianz General Insurance is no 1 in the industry and it is cash cow business for Allianz Malaysia. With its increased profit YTD, it can pass up more dividend to Allianz Msia Berhad. Its life business has been growing very fast since 10 years ago, topline outgrows its general insurance business now and profit is catching up. It is time for its life business to pass up dividend so that Allianz Msia Berhad can achieve better dividend payout ratio.
Agreed to what @myinvesting. Expected higher dividend payout to be announced in Early Jan 2021. with less claims payout higher higher PAT. Should be higher than RM 0.51 dividend this round.
Insurers invested a lot of blue chips. These blue chips are moving by year end, the gain will be reflected as fair value gain. Can expect superb performance the 4th qr.
Parent company in Germany will need more dividend from msia operation since Europe has been in tough time. Allianz SE hold 85% in Allianz PA and 65% in Allianz ordinary shares. Can expect higher dividend for PA over ord. shares. T
Eh I though Preference Shares work just like bond i.e. the dividend rate is fixed? How could the parent ask them to declare more? If declare more also should be for ordinary shares. Correct me if I'm wrong thanks
Insurers dont usually invest their own assets in equity. Most of the fair value gain impact quoted in the finance statement is the fair value gain of the policyholders' investment linked fund, net net minimal impact to the company. e.g. your asset increase but your liability also increase
Allianz PA dividend is 120% of ordinary share. Allianz Life has been retaining lots of earning for future growth, as capital is needed to underwrite more business.
Look at the investment assets of fin statement in AR, you will find about RM 2 billion equities.No capital base requirement for investment policies. Dividend Payout ratio more than 100% for Nestle, Carsberg, Bat, Heim. Allianz made pfofit after tax RM492 million 2019. 2020 expected to cross RM590 million. Total number of ord shares plus preference shares about 346 million. Hence, capable of raising dividend per share more than RM1.
Reasons picking these companies because they are majority owned by angmo. They are here to milk us. Injecting small capital and take away huge dividend every year.
exactly, TP with growth > TP without growth > 2x of current price = RM30.
There are also many other potential upsides, e.g. Allianz is conducting medical repricing in 2021. There are also upcoming IFRS17 standard in 2023, which will accelerate the profit release for ILP business.
P/B, dividend yield, EPS and actually even EEV all are not a good measurement to value Allianz Malaysia, due to the uniqueness of Allianz Life business.
AMB said any dividend for the new ICPS holders would be a non-cumulative preferential dividend, in priority over all AMB shares, where the dividend rate was equivalent to 1.2 times of the dividend rate of the AMB shares declared.
GI is boring due to its short term nature, and also limited penetration. Life got more upside, due to relative low penetration and large protection gap (e.g. many people only have low insurance coverage).
However, currently life insurance in Malaysia is expensive (vs Singapore), and high commission and expenses incurred due to heavily rely on agency and banca distribution. LGE changed the tax relief from EPF + insurance 6000 to EPF 4000 + insurance 3000, but there seems like no spike in insurance penetration. The only good thing about life insurance market in Malaysia is that, our life products are now moving towards protection based (higher margin), instead of investment/saving based.
EPS should be around 1.4 on fully diluted basis as preference shares get 1.2x dividend of ordinary shares..... but yes even that, price should be in excess of RM22
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