Insurance companies should share Covid 19 costs, but hospitals must not take the opportunity to screw insurance companies like always..lol
I understand pandemic is not covered by most of the medical insurance plans, but Allianz made RM500m last year. As a shareholder, I would support if they set aside RM4m-RM10m (<3% of their profit) for this purpose until the fund is fully exhausted. There are more than 30 life/general insurance companies in Malaysia, the combined fund can be quite meaningful.
This is once in a life time event, everyone should help.
The only way to stir up the price is to issue bonus issue. The liquidity here is low. Thus better to increase outstanding share. Just like public bank did.
~20% life/general (including takaful) are loss making. Government has always been ignorant about healthcare cost, and lead to exorbitant increase in medical cost, cause insurers losses. Before 2020, majority of the health business in Malaysia operate at a loss.
I will say it is understandable that they refuse to foot the bill. Especially for pandemic, where there might be no ending to it. Who knows if it will last more than another year?
LPI 4th QR is out with improved EPS and DPS. Think Allianz will have better performance in 4th QR also. Hopefully, declare special dividend to the needy shareholders in Malaysia and Germany.
ALLIANZ reported better GI growth in 3rd QR. GI business in final QR should be favourable also. Life business in final quarter usually very good in view of compliance requirements in contract maintenance, promotions and tour incentives.
The attractive part of life ins is in investment linked policies where accumulated funds are subject to mgt fees regardless of funds performance. The longer the business, the larger the accumulated funds, with increasing fees but no risk based capital requirement.
This particular company is undervalued rn. Good earning performance in the past 5 years, low PE & PB, High NTA, debt Free. A truly good bargain at this price. Buying into it for the long term!
@Pinky Nothing wrong comparing EPS. Its an important factor especially if ur a value investor. Imagine paying RM137 for the same amount of earnings, clownery man.
supersinginvestor may I know how you arrive at the expected price rm20 to rm30? just curious but did u benchmark performance against any similar counter?
Aaron Fryer, Regional CFO, Allianz Asia Pacific, shares further details on the business’s financial performance: “Despite the uncertainty of last year, our Life & Health (L/H) business delivered excellent results, with operating profits increasing 11.4 percent to EUR 431 million, driven mostly by strong performance in Malaysia and Indonesia.
“Total revenues in our Property & Casualty (P/C) business rose by 12.5 percent to EUR 1.3 billion. Nearly all markets contributed positively in the region, with particularly strong growth in China and Malaysia. P/C operating profit in the region increased 32.6 percent to EUR 120 million, driven by good performance in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand, and notwithstanding our investment in a new Singapore entity.
Not as good as expected, thought easily 100-200mil saving from medical claims this year and will reflect in profit (life side), but they set up an additional claims provision, maybe to smooth out this additional profit.
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