HONG KONG, Mar 9, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - MDRT, The Premier Association of Financial Professionals, has added to the portfolio of honors available for exceptional members - and their companies. MDRT has redefined and added new categories within its annual Company Rankings to recognize companies including those from Hong Kong that successfully invest in membership growth, retention, and longevity. With this new initiative, MDRT recognizes and elevates the exceptional performance of companies and financial services professionals.

MDRT involves the world's leading life insurance and financial services professionals from all over the world, and Hong Kong is also one of them. The number of MDRT members in Hong Kong jumped from 10,858 in 2020 to 15,719 in 2021 while insurance companies in the Hong Kong market also occupied 11 seats in the "2021 Top 100 Companies" list, two of which were ranked top one and two.

Randy Scritchfield, CFP, LUTCF, MDRT President commented "Hong Kong is a market full of potential and with an abundant supply of talents. We expect and have confidence that the Hong Kong market will do well in the newly added awards and rise steadily in various rankings, achieving even better results in the coming future."

MDRT Expanded Company Rankings
Using a more holistic approach to measuring achievement, MDRT will restructure and add new categories to its Company Rankings beginning in 2022. These new categories will recognize companies that achieve excellence in the areas of MDRT membership growth, retention, and longevity - areas that demonstrate a commitment to investing in their advisors' personal and professional development. The eight new rankings include:

-- Top 25 Companies - Total Membership Growth
-- Top 25 Companies - Percentage of Membership Growth
-- Top 25 Companies - Total Members who Rejoined
-- Top 25 Companies - Percentage of Members who Rejoined
-- Top 25 Companies - Total Number of 5-9 Year Members
-- Top 25 Companies - Percentage of 5-9 Year Members
-- Top 25 Companies - Total Number of Qualifying and Life Members
-- Top 25 Companies - Percentage of Qualifying and Life Members

"MDRT membership growth, retention, and longevity are critical to companies that want to generate success within their ranks and demonstrate a commitment to excellence," said Randy Scritchfield, CFP, LUTCF, MDRT President. "These new categories provide an opportunity to celebrate the financial service professionals who achieve and maintain career-long success with their MDRT membership and acknowledge the important role their companies play in supporting that success."

The 2022 Company Rankings will be announced in early July.

About MDRT
MDRT, The Premier Association of Financial Professionals, is a global, independent association of the world's leading life insurance and financial services professionals from more than 500 companies in 70 markets. MDRT members demonstrate exceptional professional knowledge, strict ethical conduct and outstanding client service. MDRT membership is recognized internationally as the standard of excellence in the life insurance and financial services business. For more information, please visit https://www.mdrt.org/ and follow them on Twitter @MDRtweet.

HONG KONG, Mar 9, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - EC Healthcare (the Company, which together with its subsidiaries is referred to as the Group, HKG: 2138), the largest non-hospital medical group in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce that the Group’s Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Tang Chi Fai (Mr. Tang) acquired a total 1,000,000 shares of the Company on the market for an aggregate consideration of approximately HK$ 7.246 million at an average price of HK$7.2465 per Share. Prior to this transaction, Mr. Tang had already increased shareholdings 3 times this year with a total of 1.15 million increased shares and the average price was $9.194, $8.49 & $8.18 per share. After the transaction, Mr. Tang is interested in an aggregate of 721,927,610 Shares and his equity stake in the Group increased from 61.18% to 61.26%

In the past year, EC Healthcare has actively integrated the healthcare market through organic growth and acquisitions to further consolidate its leading market position. As the epidemic has raged on in Hong Kong now, the Group also actively provides anti-epidemic medical services to the public through its general outpatient clinics, specialist clinics, health check centers, vaccine centers and laboratory centers. Looking forward, the Group remains confident for the long-term strong business growth momentum and will keep investing in IT, brand and service to provide better services to the public.

About EC Healthcare
EC Healthcare is Hong Kong’s largest non-hospital medical service provider, leveraging its core businesses of preventive and precision medicine, and committed to developing medical artificial intelligence by integrating its multi-disciplinary medical services. The move, which is supported by the Group’s high-end branding and quality customer services, is aimed at offering customers safe and effective healthcare and medical services with professionalism. The Group is a constituent stock of Hang Seng Composite Index and the MSCI Hong Kong Small Cap Index.

The Group principally engages in the provision of one-stop medical and health care services in Greater China. The Group provides a full range of services and products under its well-known brands, including those of its one-stop aesthetic medical solutions provider DR REBORN which has ranked first in Hong Kong by sales for years, primary care clinics jointly established with Tencent Doctorwork, chiropractic services centre New York Spine and Physiotherapy Center NYMG, health management centre re:HEALTH, a vaccine centre Hong Kong Professional Vaccine HKPV, a comprehensive dental centre UMH DENTAL CARE, a diagnostic and imaging centre HKAI, an oncology treatment centre reVIVE, a day procedure centre HKMED, a specialty clinic SPECIALISTS CENTRAL, NEW MEDICAL CENTER and Prime Medical Centres, obstetrics and gynaecology specialist ZENITH MEDICAL CENTER AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS CENTRE, specialists central, a paediatric center PRIME CARE, cardiology center HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL CARDIOLOGY CENTER, PathLab Medical Laboratories, a professional haircare center HAIR FOREST, Ophthalmology Center VIVID EYE and EC Veterinary Hospital and Imaging Center.

*According to independent research conducted by Frost and Sullivan in terms of revenue in 2019 and 2020

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JAKARTA, Mar 9, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - A number of strategic measures for the transformation and efficiency of State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) have been taken by Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir, leading to various results including increases in revenue.

"There is a limit to this ministerial position, hence there will be a 10-year roadmap where we ask the next SOE ministers to complete the program," says Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir.

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