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China plans insurer capital injections could lift stock-market investing

Analysts say Beijing’s capital injection plan for big state-owned insurers is expected to ease capital constraints and solvency pressures, potentially enabling more long-term stock-market investment.

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Beijing’s plan to inject capital into major state-owned insurers is expected to ease capital constraints and solvency pressures that have limited insurers’ ability to invest more long-term funds in the stock market, analysts said. Five state-owned insurers and three banks said on Sunday they would rai…