diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index be64337b5..90287bb39 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -4712,7 +4712,7 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyCompoundAssignment()
     // "a+=b" => "a = a + b"
     for (Token *tok = _tokens; tok; tok = tok->next())
     {
-        if (Token::Match(tok, "[;{}:] *| (| %var%"))
+        if (Token::Match(tok, "[;{}] (") || Token::Match(tok, "[;{}:] *| (| %var%"))
         {
             if (tok->str() == ":")
             {
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 76b3b7a40..978ec46d7 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -5196,6 +5196,7 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS("{ x = x >> y ; }", tokenizeAndStringify("{ x >>= y;}"));
 
         ASSERT_EQUALS("; * p = * p + y ;", tokenizeAndStringify("; *p += y;"));
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("; ( * p ) = ( * p ) + y ;", tokenizeAndStringify("; (*p) += y;"));
         ASSERT_EQUALS("; * ( p [ 0 ] ) = * ( p [ 0 ] ) + y ;", tokenizeAndStringify("; *(p[0]) += y;"));
 
         ASSERT_EQUALS("case 0 : x = x + y ; break ;", tokenizeAndStringify("case 0: x += y; break;"));