by Kwan Chi Tak. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.viii / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY --- p.1 / Objectives --- p.1 / Methodology --- p.1 / Data Source --- p.1 / Analysis on the Efficiency of Secondary Bond Market --- p.1 / Data Collected --- p.2 / Period of Investigation --- p.2 / Bonds Selected --- p.3 / Interviews --- p.3 / Chapter II. --- DEVELOPMENT OF BOND MARKET IN CHINA --- p.4 / Amount of Issue --- p.4 / Types of Bonds Available in China --- p.5 / Government Bonds --- p.6 / Policy Financial Bonds --- p.7 / Enterprise Bonds --- p.7 / Conclusion --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT BOND MARKET --- p.9 / Background --- p.9 / Issuance Methods --- p.9 / Types --- p.11 / Cost of Issuance and Redemption --- p.12 / The Establishment of Secondary Market --- p.13 / Conclusion --- p.14 / Chapter IV. --- GOVERNMENT DEFICIT FINANCING --- p.16 / The Economy of China --- p.17 / Government revenues and Expenditures --- p.17 / Deficits --- p.19 / Government Bond Issuance --- p.21 / repayment Ability --- p.22 / Conclusion --- p.23 / Chapter V. --- BENCHMARK RATES --- p.23 / Primary Market --- p.23 / Interest Rates --- p.23 / Government Bond Coupons --- p.24 / Anomaly --- p.24 / Pricing of other securities --- p.25 / secondary market --- p.25 / Efficiency of Secondary Bond Market --- p.27 / Conclusion --- p.29 / Chapter VI. --- OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS --- p.30 / Background --- p.30 / Open Market Operations --- p.30 / The Effectiveness --- p.31 / Conclusion --- p.33 / Chapter VII. --- OTHER FACTORS --- p.34 / Education --- p.34 / Institutional Investors --- p.34 / Transaction Costs --- p.35 / Distribution --- p.35 / Transaction Fees --- p.35 / Conclusion --- p.36 / Chapter VIII. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.37 / Conclusions --- p.37 / Positive Factors --- p.37 / Negative Factors --- p.38 / Recommendations --- p.39 / Chapter IX. --- APPENDIX I --- p.41 / Chapter X. --- APPENDIX --- p.43 / Chapter XI. --- BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.44

The key objective of insurance company on money management is asset liability management, as policy asset is solely for paying policy liability. It is true whether it is in case of life insurance, general insurance, or reinsurance. The difficulty of achieving such objective is that the exact cash flow and the exact duration of policy liability are unknown ex ante that requires the asset manager's a good quantitative, financial skill. What is worse is that the variations of cash flow and duration can be huge that is demanding on the asset manager's quantitative, financial skill. Quantitative problem is difficult but qualitative problem can be even more difficult. The specialist problem in insurance industry, which is also known as agency problem in information economics, is notorious. It is because a specialist may no longer work for the insurance company when the long term liability is due and the existing liability portfolio is always composed of myriad policies liability. / The purpose of this thesis is to try to provide solutions to three critical problems in insurance industry. (1) China is the most booming country for insurance at the moment. So, it is selected for discussing about the most difficult problem in modern finance---specialist problem. A structural approach is devised in this thesis to solve such problem. The solution can be generalized to all countries. (2) As many people argue about that modern finance is inapplicable to emerging market, such as China, especially when there are capital account and currency controls, the bond market of China is selected to provide evidence that modern finance is applicable to emerging market even both the capital account and the currency of the country are controlled by the government. (3) The last part of this thesis provides a breakthrough solution to price insurer default option, an embedded option, in insurance company using observable credit default swap price, as the traditional approach needs statistical assumption that is subjective. / Li, Wing Ping Desmond. / Adviser: Frank Youhua Chen. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2169. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.