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May 28 (BusinessDesk) Greenheart NZ Forestry, the Northland forester whose ultimate owner shifted from failed Sino-Forest Corp to a Cayman Islands based company this year, has lifted its annual harvest by 60 percent and sales by 35 percent, its 2012 accounts show.
Greenheart operates the 13,000 hectare Mangakahia Forest, which it acquired from former parent Sino-Forest in 2011 for US$73 million in shares and debt. It was among assets transferred from Sino-Forest to Cayman Islands incorporated Emerald Plantation Holdings as part of a Canadian deal with Sino-Forests creditors in January.
Greenheart NZs accounts show the group harvested about 558,550 cubic metres of wood in calendar 2012, up from 348,620 cu m in 2011. Total revenue climbed 35 percent to US$37.7 million, of which about US$34 million was in export sales.
Operating costs rose to US$34.2 million from US$23.6 million, of which the bulk was harvest and distribution costs. Net profit fell to US$977,000 from US$2.46 million a year earlier, once one-time accounting adjustments and interest costs are included.
Interest-bearing debt of about US$57 million included a US$40 million loan from former immediate parent Mega Harvest International
Sino-Forest filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada in March last year. Under a plan agreed by its creditors, its assets were transferred to Emerald, owned by the creditors. The transfer included 66.6 percent of Hong Kong-listed Greenheart Group, triggering a requirement for Emerald to make an offer for the remaining shares, which it did this year.
The Toronto Stock Exchange listed shares of Sino Forest tumbled in June 2011 after short-seller Carson Block of Muddy Waters Research alleged the company had been inflating its assets and earnings. The shares were subsequently suspended from trading by the Ontario Securities Commission.
Shareholders of Sino-Forest had included Richard Chandler Corp, the investment vehicle of kiwi-born investors Richard Chandler.
New Zealands total exports of logs and wood fell 1.2 percent to $3.16 billion in calendar2012, according to government figures.
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The Faroe Islands could become the first nation to suffer trade sanctions under new European fishery laws.
The tiny nation, a group of 18 islands in the North Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland, has repeatedly defied the European Union over herring and mackerel quotas and now faces economic retaliation. New laws were created by the EU last year to allow it to impose sanctions in the event of disputes over fish quotas and the Faroes have now been officially notified that trade penalties are being considered as part of the so-called herring war.
Ministers for the Faroes have been given a few weeks to respond but if they refuse to back down they face a range of sanctions that could include a ban on all fish products from the islands being imported or landed in the EU.
The UK led calls for economic retaliation this month at the Fisheries Council when European ministers agreed sanctions against the Faroes should be pursued by the European Commission.
Richard Benyon, the UK Fisheries Minister, welcomed the step: I support the commission in taking the first step towards applying trade sanctions, following the request I made to discuss this last week. I hope the Faroe Islands adopt a more reasonable position and I remain prepared to support trade sanctions if they continue to behave irresponsibly.
It is the first time the sanctions process has been invoked and, unless a compromise over quotas can be found, it is likely to hit the Faroe Islands especially hard.
Fishing is the main industry on the North Atlantic archipelago and accounts for more than 95 per cent of its exports about 20 per cent of the gross national product.
In a statement, the European Commission said the sustainability of the [herring] stock is highly compromised and its recovery possibilities largely diminished because of the Faroes. It said: The European Commission has notified the fisheries authorities of the Faroe Islands of its intention to adopt measures in support of the sustainability of herring fisheries shared with the Faroe Islands.
The measures may include restrictions in the imports of herring and associated species fished by Faroese interests and restrictions on the access of Faroese vessels in EU harbours except for safety reasons.
This commission action aims to ensure sustainability to avoid a collapse of the stock which would mean that many fishermen and their families would lose their income.
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WASHINGTON When he talks to Republicans in Congress, Scott DeFife, a restaurant industry lobbyist, speaks their language: President Barack Obamas health care law is a train wreck well down the track. There will be collateral damage if changes are not made. Friends of the industry cannot sit back and let that happen.
Speaking to Democrats, he puts on his empathy hat: The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. Its goal of universal insurance coverage is laudable, but its unintended consequences will hurt the cause.
Almost no law as sprawling and consequential as the Affordable Care Act has passed without changes significant structural changes or routine tweaks known as technical corrections in subsequent months and years. The Childrens Health Insurance Program, for example, was fixed in the first months after its passage in 1997.
But as they prowl Capitol Hill, business lobbyists like DeFife, health care providers and others seeking changes are finding, to their dismay, that in a polarized Congress, accomplishing them has become all but impossible.
Republicans simply want to see the entire law go away and will not take part in adjusting it. Democrats are petrified of reopening a politically charged law that threatens to derail careers as the Republicans once again seize on it before an election year.
As a result, a landmark law that almost everyone agrees has flaws is likely to take effect unchanged.
I dont think it can be fixed, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said in an interview. Everything is interconnected, 2,700 pages of statute, 20,000 pages of regulations so far. The only solution is to repeal it, root and branch.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., one of the laws primary authors, said: Im not sure were going to get to the point where its time to open the bill and make some changes. Once you start, its Pandoras box.
As the clock ticks toward 2014, when the law will be fully in effect, some businesses say that without changes, it may be their undoing.
Are we really going to put the private sector in a situation where theres a real potential mess for posturing points? DeFife asked.
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By Charles P. Wallace
Ma Weihua, CEO of China Merchants Bank, and Cigna CEO David Cordani in China last year.
FORTUNE -- (SHANGHAI) By 8 a.m., Renji Hospital, founded in 1848 by Western missionaries and still one of China's best medical centers, is already in a state of chaos. A veritable sea of patients is crammed into the reception area, waiting impatiently to see a doctor. They first line up under giant neon boards that list physicians' specialties to collect a number on a waiting list, then join another snaking line at a cashier's window, and finally shuffle into even longer queues to wait for a doctor to see them in examination rooms with chipping paint. This scene is played out daily across China, which has a limited primary health care system. Medical services are cheap but rudimentary: If you have any malady, from a bad cold to cancer, you must go to the emergency room to seek medical treatment.
But in a modern building less than 100 yards from the main Renji emergency ward is a glimpse at China's future. It is the guibin texu, known more commonly by its English translation: VIP hospital. In the VIP building, patients don't line up but wait for appointments on leather sofas, entertained by widescreen TVs. Instead of the shouting heard at Renji's main hospital, the noise level in the VIP section remains an understated murmur. Patients are escorted into private examination rooms by nurses in crisp white uniforms. The specialists who are so very hard to see at Renji are now suddenly available by appointment -- for a price. The physicians at the VIP hospital charge $60 or more for a consultation, 50 times what patients pay across the road.
MORE:China - a nation on the move
To help pay for such VIP treatment (and treatments), a growing number of Chinese consumers are turning to supplemental health insurance -- a thoroughly American concept. The irony is that despite soaring demand for various financial services, foreign firms have just 2% of the banking and insurance market, according to McKinsey & Co. State-owned insurance companies dominate the market to such extent that last year New York Life abandoned its China joint venture, selling out to Japanese firm Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance because of slumping earnings.
But one U.S. firm, Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna (CI), is quietly winning over Chinese consumers, largely by defying conventional wisdom about how an American insurer should operate in China. Cigna entered the China market in 2003, partnering not with a local insurer but with a leading retail lender, China Merchants Bank, which is known for its deft handling of consumers. Rather than deploying an army of relatively expensive salesmen, which has burdened many other firms with a huge overhead, the Cigna joint venture has instead deployed innovative marketing, call centers equipped with the latest data-mining techniques, television commercials featuring a movie star pitchman, and online and social media sales to gain a growing foothold in the Chinese market. Last year Cigna's joint venture in China had revenues of $331 million, up 32% from the year before (though still a small fraction of the company's overall $29 billion in sales). After a decade of operation, the firm just sold its 1 millionth policy in China. The business broke even after just three years and is now solidly in the black.
Lines still snake through Shanghai's Huashan Hospital, a guibin texu (translation: VIP hospital).
Cigna's early success in China sets the company up to capitalize on a confluence of forces reshaping the nation, starting with the rise of private hospitals and clinics as a key pillar in Beijing's evolving efforts to provide health care to 1.3 billion people. These VIP institutions target China's rising middle class and wealthy, a group whose affluence will -- and this may seem counterintuitive -- actually create more demand for health care and insurance. They will live longer, requiring special care and treatments for diseases common among the elderly; their diets will change (not necessarily for the better); and they'll insist on drugs and medicines that previously had not been prescribed because of costs.
Ana Gupte, an analyst at Bernstein Research, says spending on health care in China is expected to more than triple, to $648 billion in 2015 from $182 billion in 2008. She reckons that the market for health insurance in China will reach $15 billion in 2015, and that Cigna's revenues there could approach $1 billion a year, nearly a third of what the company now earns from its international business. "China is the fastest growing asset in our international portfolio," says David Cordani, Cigna's CEO, during a visit to Shanghai. "Over a five- to 10-year horizon, China will become the critical part of our business portfolio because we will bring multiple products and services to the market, both for the individual and the emerging employer landscape here. It's an exciting part of our future."
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By Charles P. Wallace
Ma Weihua, CEO of China Merchants Bank, and Cigna CEO David Cordani in China last year.
FORTUNE -- (SHANGHAI) By 8 a.m., Renji Hospital, founded in 1848 by Western missionaries and still one of China's best medical centers, is already in a state of chaos. A veritable sea of patients is crammed into the reception area, waiting impatiently to see a doctor. They first line up under giant neon boards that list physicians' specialties to collect a number on a waiting list, then join another snaking line at a cashier's window, and finally shuffle into even longer queues to wait for a doctor to see them in examination rooms with chipping paint. This scene is played out daily across China, which has a limited primary health care system. Medical services are cheap but rudimentary: If you have any malady, from a bad cold to cancer, you must go to the emergency room to seek medical treatment.
But in a modern building less than 100 yards from the main Renji emergency ward is a glimpse at China's future. It is the guibin texu, known more commonly by its English translation: VIP hospital. In the VIP building, patients don't line up but wait for appointments on leather sofas, entertained by widescreen TVs. Instead of the shouting heard at Renji's main hospital, the noise level in the VIP section remains an understated murmur. Patients are escorted into private examination rooms by nurses in crisp white uniforms. The specialists who are so very hard to see at Renji are now suddenly available by appointment -- for a price. The physicians at the VIP hospital charge $60 or more for a consultation, 50 times what patients pay across the road.
MORE:China - a nation on the move
To help pay for such VIP treatment (and treatments), a growing number of Chinese consumers are turning to supplemental health insurance -- a thoroughly American concept. The irony is that despite soaring demand for various financial services, foreign firms have just 2% of the banking and insurance market, according to McKinsey & Co. State-owned insurance companies dominate the market to such extent that last year New York Life abandoned its China joint venture, selling out to Japanese firm Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance because of slumping earnings.
But one U.S. firm, Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna (CI), is quietly winning over Chinese consumers, largely by defying conventional wisdom about how an American insurer should operate in China. Cigna entered the China market in 2003, partnering not with a local insurer but with a leading retail lender, China Merchants Bank, which is known for its deft handling of consumers. Rather than deploying an army of relatively expensive salesmen, which has burdened many other firms with a huge overhead, the Cigna joint venture has instead deployed innovative marketing, call centers equipped with the latest data-mining techniques, television commercials featuring a movie star pitchman, and online and social media sales to gain a growing foothold in the Chinese market. Last year Cigna's joint venture in China had revenues of $331 million, up 32% from the year before (though still a small fraction of the company's overall $29 billion in sales). After a decade of operation, the firm just sold its 1 millionth policy in China. The business broke even after just three years and is now solidly in the black.
Lines still snake through Shanghai's Huashan Hospital, a guibin texu (translation: VIP hospital).
Cigna's early success in China sets the company up to capitalize on a confluence of forces reshaping the nation, starting with the rise of private hospitals and clinics as a key pillar in Beijing's evolving efforts to provide health care to 1.3 billion people. These VIP institutions target China's rising middle class and wealthy, a group whose affluence will -- and this may seem counterintuitive -- actually create more demand for health care and insurance. They will live longer, requiring special care and treatments for diseases common among the elderly; their diets will change (not necessarily for the better); and they'll insist on drugs and medicines that previously had not been prescribed because of costs.
Ana Gupte, an analyst at Bernstein Research, says spending on health care in China is expected to more than triple, to $648 billion in 2015 from $182 billion in 2008. She reckons that the market for health insurance in China will reach $15 billion in 2015, and that Cigna's revenues there could approach $1 billion a year, nearly a third of what the company now earns from its international business. "China is the fastest growing asset in our international portfolio," says David Cordani, Cigna's CEO, during a visit to Shanghai. "Over a five- to 10-year horizon, China will become the critical part of our business portfolio because we will bring multiple products and services to the market, both for the individual and the emerging employer landscape here. It's an exciting part of our future."
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By Charles P. Wallace
Ma Weihua, CEO of China Merchants Bank, and Cigna CEO David Cordani in China last year.
FORTUNE -- (SHANGHAI) By 8 a.m., Renji Hospital, founded in 1848 by Western missionaries and still one of China's best medical centers, is already in a state of chaos. A veritable sea of patients is crammed into the reception area, waiting impatiently to see a doctor. They first line up under giant neon boards that list physicians' specialties to collect a number on a waiting list, then join another snaking line at a cashier's window, and finally shuffle into even longer queues to wait for a doctor to see them in examination rooms with chipping paint. This scene is played out daily across China, which has a limited primary health care system. Medical services are cheap but rudimentary: If you have any malady, from a bad cold to cancer, you must go to the emergency room to seek medical treatment.
But in a modern building less than 100 yards from the main Renji emergency ward is a glimpse at China's future. It is the guibin texu, known more commonly by its English translation: VIP hospital. In the VIP building, patients don't line up but wait for appointments on leather sofas, entertained by widescreen TVs. Instead of the shouting heard at Renji's main hospital, the noise level in the VIP section remains an understated murmur. Patients are escorted into private examination rooms by nurses in crisp white uniforms. The specialists who are so very hard to see at Renji are now suddenly available by appointment -- for a price. The physicians at the VIP hospital charge $60 or more for a consultation, 50 times what patients pay across the road.
MORE:China - a nation on the move
To help pay for such VIP treatment (and treatments), a growing number of Chinese consumers are turning to supplemental health insurance -- a thoroughly American concept. The irony is that despite soaring demand for various financial services, foreign firms have just 2% of the banking and insurance market, according to McKinsey & Co. State-owned insurance companies dominate the market to such extent that last year New York Life abandoned its China joint venture, selling out to Japanese firm Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance because of slumping earnings.
But one U.S. firm, Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna (CI), is quietly winning over Chinese consumers, largely by defying conventional wisdom about how an American insurer should operate in China. Cigna entered the China market in 2003, partnering not with a local insurer but with a leading retail lender, China Merchants Bank, which is known for its deft handling of consumers. Rather than deploying an army of relatively expensive salesmen, which has burdened many other firms with a huge overhead, the Cigna joint venture has instead deployed innovative marketing, call centers equipped with the latest data-mining techniques, television commercials featuring a movie star pitchman, and online and social media sales to gain a growing foothold in the Chinese market. Last year Cigna's joint venture in China had revenues of $331 million, up 32% from the year before (though still a small fraction of the company's overall $29 billion in sales). After a decade of operation, the firm just sold its 1 millionth policy in China. The business broke even after just three years and is now solidly in the black.
Lines still snake through Shanghai's Huashan Hospital, a guibin texu (translation: VIP hospital).
Cigna's early success in China sets the company up to capitalize on a confluence of forces reshaping the nation, starting with the rise of private hospitals and clinics as a key pillar in Beijing's evolving efforts to provide health care to 1.3 billion people. These VIP institutions target China's rising middle class and wealthy, a group whose affluence will -- and this may seem counterintuitive -- actually create more demand for health care and insurance. They will live longer, requiring special care and treatments for diseases common among the elderly; their diets will change (not necessarily for the better); and they'll insist on drugs and medicines that previously had not been prescribed because of costs.
Ana Gupte, an analyst at Bernstein Research, says spending on health care in China is expected to more than triple, to $648 billion in 2015 from $182 billion in 2008. She reckons that the market for health insurance in China will reach $15 billion in 2015, and that Cigna's revenues there could approach $1 billion a year, nearly a third of what the company now earns from its international business. "China is the fastest growing asset in our international portfolio," says David Cordani, Cigna's CEO, during a visit to Shanghai. "Over a five- to 10-year horizon, China will become the critical part of our business portfolio because we will bring multiple products and services to the market, both for the individual and the emerging employer landscape here. It's an exciting part of our future."
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The real health care battle in this country isn't the one being fought over the bill everyone now calls "Obamacare." In fact, it's not a battle between Republicans and Democrats at all. Therealbattle is the one millions of Americans face every day as they struggle to pay medical bills that now average nearly $10,000 per year -- if they're "lucky."
The United States is now the only developed nation on Earth where the average family with insurance pays more for health care than it does for groceries. That includes both the family share of premiums and out-of-pocket costs for medical treatment. In fact, those out-of-pockets costs alone exceed a family's average yearly cost for gasoline, according to a new study.
That study found that the average household medical bill for a family of four with "good" PPO coverage is nearly now $9,144 per year. That's a crippling and unsustainable expense for most family budgets, a burden which is crippling the economy and ruining lives.
This struggle seems to have been forgotten in all the back-and-forth over Obamacare. Who's fighting for these American households as they wage their losing battle against health care costs?
The wrong argument.
Certainly not the Republicans. They've offered no alternative vision except that of unrestrained greed, a 'free-market' health care jungle red in tooth and claw.
For their part, too many Democrats and liberals have concentrated on defending the Affordable Care Act. Sure, that bill has some good features: It's a good thing that young people can now access their parents' health care coverage until they're twenty-six, and that people with pre-existing conditions are no longer excluded from coverage, and we should say so. And the ACA may help to slow the rate of health care cost increases.
But those costs are already unacceptably - and unsustainably - high. Medical costs are a heavy burden for many people. More attention must be paid to outlining the vision of a better health system which improves life for all Americans.
Premature exhilaration.
Many of the ACA bill's defenders took a victory lap over last week's rate announcement from California's health exchanges. "Obamacare Will Be A Debacle -- For Republicans," wrote Paul Krugman. California's rates were "very good news" for the law, wroteEzra Klein and Evan Soltas.Matt Yglesiassaid California's results were "evidence" that "fundamentally (the bill's) implementation is going to work out great, and people are going to love it."
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>>> with months to go before open enrollment begins for obamacare, there's good news for the white house coming out of california. the state has revealed the prices for the health care plan under the affordable care act and the rates are lower than previously expected. however, the president's signature piece of legislation still faces an uphill battle when it comes to winning over voters. a new cnn poll finds 54% of americans are opposed to the law. that number is relatively unchanged since the bill was signed into law three years ago. 35% oppose the law because it is too liberal while 16% say it's not liberal enough. meanwhile, if you already have insurance through your employer, you may still feel the effects of obamacare. the "new york times" reports many companies are looking to avoid the so-called cadillac tax which penalizes companies that offer high-end health care plans to the employees. some employers looking to cut back on costs, meaning some of the more generous health care perks you enjoyed may be a thing of the past. the burden of making sure the affordable care act has a smooth rollout falls on the shoulders of secretary health and human services kathleen sebelius . the hill says several democrats are already concerned over sebelius' handling of the bill since it became a law three years ago. acknowledging any missteps could tip the scales of the 2013 midterm elections in favor of the gop.
>> john heilemann, i'm sure you're hearing it all the time. i heard it, max baucus came in, talked to us before he retired. said there was the number one concern next year, implementation of obama care. they don't think they're up to it. they think the law of unintended consequences is going to blow up in the democrats' face. what do you think?
>> well, i think it's absolutely obviously a political concern for democrats. because this law has not -- almost, most of the provisions have not gone into effect. so most people don't understand what it is and we still don't know what the economic consequences are going to be. there's the level of uncertainty still hangs over it and the politics of it were miserable for the administration throughout its passage. until people start to feel in a significant way the benefits of the law, whatever benefits those are, the political support for it is going to remain tenuous. and so in this period of transition into the law, it remains politically vulnerable.
>> it is interesting that 16%, willie , actually wanted to be more liberal. you look at those numbers. there are a lot of times during the vietnam war where a majority of people in america disapproved of the handling of vietnam and it was america 's most unpopular war. well, a big chunk of those people wanted us to be more aggressive, more engaged in vietnam. you've got the opposite case here.
>> it's interesting if you look at that number 54% oppose the affordable care act according to the cnn poll. i wonder how much people understand to begin with about obama care. if you ask anybody in this room what are the particulars of obama care, i'd be shocked if anyone could tell you exactly what it means next year.
>> no, absolutely. the difference between this and, say, the prescription drug benefit under medicare that was passed under bush is everybody basically understood, all seniors did that you can sign up with an insurance company and get drug coverage. and when you look back on that, there was a lot more money appropriated by congress to implement a much more simple proposal than obama care. and i think the way they organized obama care, the president and this plan are at the mercy of the states. and where you have governors who really want to implement it, california's a good case, colorado, oregon, washington , my hunch is the implementation is going to go well. but in states where republican governors are very hostile to it, it may not go very well. and yet the president's going to be on the hook for that. so it's going to be complicated.
>> it is going to be complicated. it's also going to get really complicated. stories coming out in the "new york times" that i don't really -- i'm having a hard time getting my arms around as far as intel, political intel. we're going to talk about that in one minute.
>> political intelligence firms. that was in the washington post yesterday.
>> where the white house preps hedge funds on certain items. we're going to talk about that in one minute. first, some news over the weekend that --
>> yes.
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