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.

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<li>President Marcos’ first State of the Nation Address (SONA) represents a missed opportunity of-sorts, given his sizeable mandate &amp; political capital. The address lacked fresh reforms on taxation or economic liberalisation.</li>
<li>Without a renewed push to open up the economy, foreign investment approvals, which have slowed, will only continue to languish.</li>
<li>Conversely, a large part of his speech addressed the agriculture sector which he personally oversees, reflecting attempts by Marcos to broaden his family’s political base beyond the Solid North.</li>
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President Marcos’ first State of the Nation Address (SONA) represents a missed opportunity of-sorts, given his sizeable mandate &amp; political capital. The address lacked fresh reforms on taxation or economic liberalisation.
Without a renewed push to open up the economy, foreign investment approvals, which have slowed, will only continue to languish.
Conversely, a large part of his speech addressed the agriculture sector which he personally oversees, reflecting attempts by Marcos to broaden his family’s political base beyond the Solid North.


The Philippines: First SONA By Marcos Falls Short Of Expectations