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>The economy is past the worst of the Omicron wave. In May: real industrial production returned to growth, contractions in retail sales, services output narrowed, and infra investment edged up.</li>
<li>But underlying demand in the economy remains parlous. Consumer demand is fragile and aggregate fixed asset investment continues to decline, reflecting damaged consumer and business confidence.</li>
<li>The steady drumbeat of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies is unlikely to significantly boost growth when it fails to resolve key constraints on the behaviour of economic agents.</li>
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The economy is past the worst of the Omicron wave. In May: real industrial production returned to growth, contractions in retail sales, services output narrowed, and infra investment edged up.
But underlying demand in the economy remains parlous. Consumer demand is fragile and aggregate fixed asset investment continues to decline, reflecting damaged consumer and business confidence.
The steady drumbeat of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies is unlikely to significantly boost growth when it fails to resolve key constraints on the behaviour of economic agents.


China: The Worst Is over … Maybe, but Downside Pressures Remain