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

<p>Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole has two main implications for Asian economies.</p><ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>First, by clarifying how the Fed will act on tapering and rate hikes, he reduced the risk of an abrupt liquidity shock in emerging markets.</li>
<li>econd, while tapering may constrain Asian central banks’ leeway for monetary actions, the signal that rate hikes in the US are some distance away has bought Asian policy makers more time to address vulnerabilities and more space to conduct monetary policy.</li>
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Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole has two main implications for Asian economies.
First, by clarifying how the Fed will act on tapering and rate hikes, he reduced the risk of an abrupt liquidity shock in emerging markets.
econd, while tapering may constrain Asian central banks’ leeway for monetary actions, the signal that rate hikes in the US are some distance away has bought Asian policy makers more time to address vulnerabilities and more space to conduct monetary policy.


Jackson Hole Symposium: Fed Is Clearer on Tapering, and EM Asia Is in Better Shape