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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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>Indonesia is on the cusp of structural transformation as the industry policy is starting to produce results.</li>
<li>Inflows of foreign investment are bouncing up. Nickel-rich Sulawesi is now on par with West Java in terms of their respective regional shares of FDI.</li>
<li>The tailwind from commodity prices add to the current account buffers. The sizeable trade surplus in 2Q22 should also translate into a sizeable CA surplus (CAA estimate: 3.7%)</li>
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Indonesia is on the cusp of structural transformation as the industry policy is starting to produce results.
Inflows of foreign investment are bouncing up. Nickel-rich Sulawesi is now on par with West Java in terms of their respective regional shares of FDI.
The tailwind from commodity prices add to the current account buffers. The sizeable trade surplus in 2Q22 should also translate into a sizeable CA surplus (CAA estimate: 3.7%)


Indonesia: Bumper Trade Surplus and FDI Inflows Undergird IDR