Friday, July 4, 2014

AmWatch - CIMB Group : A surprising announcement on leadership transition HOLD, 4 Jul 2014

STOCK FOCUS OF THE DAY
CIMB Group : A surprising announcement on leadership transition           HOLD

We maintain our HOLD on CIMB Group Holdings Bhd (CIMB) with an unchanged fair value of RM7.30/share. This is based on an FY14F ROE of 12.7% and an unchanged fair P/BV of 1.7x. CIMB has announced that Tan Sri Md Nor Yusof, chairman of CIMB Group, will retire from the board of directors and join the group's International Advisory Panel (IAP). Dato’ Sri Nazir Razak will take over as chairman of CIMB Group and relinquish his position as group CEO. Nazir will also chair an executive committee of the board (to be established), that will focus on key strategic matters and enhance the board’s oversight functions. The company said that the changes to the leadership structure will institutionalise and strengthen the management of the group. We expect the changes at the top to have taken the market by surprise.  That said, we believe that it is positive that there is some continuity at the top management level, given that the outgoing CEO will be staying as chairman of the group, CIMB Niaga, and CIMB Investment Bank.              Maintain HOLD.

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