Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

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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Risks Arising from Ouster of Parliamentary Speaker Can Be Contained

Indonesia: More Needs to Be Done to Raise Tax Take

Indonesia: Baby Steps on the Long Road of Reforms

Indonesia: Three Implications of Underperformance

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

<ul><li>3Q17 GDP growth figures were disappointing as the pick-up in private and public investment failed to make up for anemic and flatlining growth in domestic consumption.</li><li>Moreover, successive rate cuts by BI in Aug and Sep 17 are unlikely to lower the high cost of borrowing which raises banks’ net interest margins at the expense of credit growth.</li><li>That said, FDI flows and tourist arrivals, both of which reached record-high in recent months, are grounds for optimism over the economy’s prospects.</li></ul>

3Q17 GDP growth figures were disappointing as the pick-up in private and public investment failed to make up for anemic and flatlining growth in domestic consumption.Moreover, successive rate cuts by BI in Aug and Sep 17 are unlikely to lower the high cost of borrowing which raises banks’ net interest margins at the expense of credit growth.That said, FDI flows and tourist arrivals, both of which reached record-high in recent months, are grounds for optimism over the economy’s prospects.

Economy Underperforms but There Are Positive Takeaways