Foreign and domestic investor interest in Mongolia’s capital markets is rising thanks to fresh progress towards the approval of a planned new securities law and plans to modernise the country’s stock exchange.
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Despite declining profits in 2011, Brunei Darussalam’s banks are looking forward to a period of financial stability and new products, as tighter lending rules put in place by the government have created a clean slate for new, better-regulated credit activity.
Articles & Analysis | Room to grow: Greater distribution and new products spur expansion from The Report: Peru 2012
Despite the global financial crisis in 2008, Peru’s insurance sector has been steadily expanding over the past five years, averaging 15% annual growth in premiums. While life insurance sales fell by 4.3% globally in 2009, as of December that year life insurance premiums in Peru were up 9.73% year-on-year (y-o-y), placing the country fourth on Swiss...
Articles & Analysis | Promoting benefits: Efforts are currently under way to increase penetration from The Report: Peru 2012
In February 2012, Alfredo Jochamowitz, the president of the Peruvian Association of Insurance Companies (APESEG), estimated that the insurance penetration rate in the country was about 1.6%, measured as the percentage of premiums to GDP. This figure lags behind regional leaders like Chile (4.5%) and the total average for Latin America (2.5%)....
Articles & Analysis | Creating competition: Pension funds are set to undergo several changes to improve quality and efficiency from The Report: Peru 2012
Pension fund reform has become a hot topic among leading fund administrators and lawmakers. As of May 2012, two government commissions, consisting of a technical team appointed by the executive branch and an economic commission that was formed by the Congress, were hard at work to develop a proposal for the restructuring of the pension fund system....
Articles & Analysis | Volcan Compañía Minera: Mining from The Report: Peru 2012
Crédito del Perú THE COMPANY: Volcan is a diversified and significant global producer of silver, zinc, copper and lead. It is the world’s fourth-largest producer of zinc and silver and is currently the number one producer of silver, zinc and lead concentrates in Peru.