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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Singapore Budget 2022: Expect Medium-Term Adjustments to Raise Inflation

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>Supply disruptions abroad, a weaker outlook for financial services, and slower growth in real estate following macroprudential tightening prompt a 2022 GDP growth forecast downgrade to 4.4% from 5.4% previously.</li>
<li>We see these headwinds partially offset by an earlier-than-expected reopening of the economy, though the reopening impulse is also blunted by a recovery in outbound tourism.</li>
<li>The balance of risks to growth is tilted to the downside. growth will disappoint if the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalates further and/or the US capex engine loses momentum.</li>
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Supply disruptions abroad, a weaker outlook for financial services, and slower growth in real estate following macroprudential tightening prompt a 2022 GDP growth forecast downgrade to 4.4% from 5.4% previously.
We see these headwinds partially offset by an earlier-than-expected reopening of the economy, though the reopening impulse is also blunted by a recovery in outbound tourism.
The balance of risks to growth is tilted to the downside. growth will disappoint if the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalates further and/or the US capex engine loses momentum.


Singapore: Recalibrating Our Growth Forecasts Amid Cross-Currents