China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited provided earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2014. The company informed that as the product mix of the Group's insurance businesses continue to improve, the insurance agency force productivity continues to steadily increase, and the strategic cooperation with large clients is now bearing results and outstanding investment return, the life insurance operations of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2014 produced substantial growth in profit over the same period in 2013, the Group's Mainland property and casualty insurance operations also achieved a large increase in profit, and other major business lines remain solid profit contributors. In addition, late 2013, the Group increased its ownership interest in Taiping Life Insurance Company Limited from 50.05% to 75.1% and Taiping General Insurance Company Limited from 61.21% to 100%.

These increases in ownership interest have provided the Group with a greater share of the above-described strong performances of these two companies. Apart from this, mainly due to the completion of the acquisition of equity interests in certain overseas property and casualty insurance companies during year 2014, the net profits attributable to the shareholders of the Company in the same period in 2013 has been restated to HKD 1,653 million (unaudited) (before restatement: HKD 1,530 million). Taking into account all of these above factors, the Group expects the 2014 estimated profits attributable to shareholders to be increased by more than 130% from the same period in 2013 (restated).