Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nigel Chiang

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

Economist

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Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

Economic Policy and Strategic Advisors

Macroeconomics

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<li>Geopolitical vulnerabilities argue for Chinese leaders to undertake reforms that they have long avoided but the practical and political obstacles to these reforms are significant:  </li>
<li>Once the current slowdown is contained, a policy of faster appreciation of the Yuan is possible, to rebalance the economy. We also see more liberalisation of the capital account.</li>
<li>Other necessary moves, e.g., strengthening social safety nets to reduce savings, will take longer. Ideological obstacles will probably delay reforms that alleviate institutional constraints on the more productive private sector.</li>
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Geopolitical vulnerabilities argue for Chinese leaders to undertake reforms that they have long avoided but the practical and political obstacles to these reforms are significant:  
Once the current slowdown is contained, a policy of faster appreciation of the Yuan is possible, to rebalance the economy. We also see more liberalisation of the capital account.
Other necessary moves, e.g., strengthening social safety nets to reduce savings, will take longer. Ideological obstacles will probably delay reforms that alleviate institutional constraints on the more productive private sector.


China: Looking Beyond the Immediate Challenges...