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The insurer plans to hire about 2,00,000 agents this financial year.
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Chairman of insurance giant says it has invested Rs 16,000 cr in equity till Oct.
The government sold 63.16 crore shares or 10 per cent stake in Coal India through an offer for sale (OFS) on January 30.
Conceding the long-pending demand from around 11 lakh agents, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has revised the gratuity payable to agents to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh earlier. The revised rates will be applicable retrospectively from April 1, 2007.
The insurance company has formed a four-member committee headed by LIC chairman TS Vijayan to decide the valuation of LIC Mutual Fund.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio is India's strongest telecom brand in India, ahead of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd, according to brand intelligence and data insights company TRA. TRA, formerly Trust Research Advisory, in its 'India's Most Desired Brands 2022' ranked companies according to their brand strength. Reliance Jio topped the telecom category, followed by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Ltd and BSNL.
LIC's product will be a hospital cash product (that is for major listed surgeries and procedures, LIC will pay the insured a predetermined lump sum amount, depending on his premium payment). LIC's product will also be a long-term product of over 10 years. For claim payouts, the public sector behemoth has tied by with Axis Bank, Syndicate Bank and Bank of America.
Amid intense scrutiny from short-sellers and regulators, Adani group stocks have seen a significant shift in their shareholder base: Relatively opaque foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have given way to more recognisable investors and broad-based funds. The list of large public shareholders - those directly holding at least 1 per cent - is now dominated by entities, such as the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), US-based GQG Partners, Abu Dhabi-based International Holding Company, and Qatar Investment Authority's INQ Holding.
A major section of Life Insurance Corporation employees went on strike on Thursday to press for higher pay package even as the country's largest insurer kept its offices open.
The SEBI and the RBI will look into it. Let their reports come in, BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani said.
Endowment Plus is a unit-linked product that offers investment-cum-insurance during the term of the policy.
Union Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday announced enhancement of bonus for policy holders of the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, which is conducting an internal probe into the bribe-for-loan scam that surfaced at LIC Housing Finance (LICHF) in November, has not detected any aberration as yet.
Life insurers in India registered a 22 per cent growth, collecting Rs 9,713 crore (Rs 97.13 billion) in premium income from new business till December, with private players gaining more ground from LIC.
LIC is one of the largest Indian shareholders in the country's largest car maker, with a 6.93% stake.
The IL&FS management is also talking to its second-largest shareholder, Orix Corporation of Japan, to infuse more funds into the company - in case any shareholder backs out during the rights issue.
"We may rope in a consultant for our proposed foray into banking business, if that is required. This will happen after the final guidelines on banking license is out by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)," Director and Chief Executive of LIC Housing Finance, V K Sharma said.
Life Insurance Corporation of India has said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority's requirement that extra 50 per cent solvency margins above regulatory norms be maintained was unfair and unwarranted.
LIC employees plan to observe a two-hour walk-out strike on August 4 to protest against the LIC (Amendment) Bill, 2009, introduced by the finance minister in the Lok Sabha on Friday, a senior office-bearer of an employees association said. The Bill says that the minimum capital of LIC would be increased from the present Rs 5-crore (Rs 50-million) to Rs 100-crore (Rs 1 billion).
After lying low since its foray into the credit card business two years ago, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India on Monday announced a tie-up with Axis Bank to offer co-branded credit cards to its policyholders and employees.
Life Insurance Corporation of India has hiked its stake in Anil Ambani Group company Reliance Communications to 7.02 per cent after buying fresh shares worth Rs 1,274.4 crore through an open market transaction.
The government hopes to use this data to assess the extent of financial support needed to recover from the pandemic.
Life Insurance Corporation of India and DaimlerChrysler, one of the oldest partners of Tata Motors, may refrain from participating in the ongoing Rs 4,145-crore (Rs 41.45 billion) rights issue that is closing on October 20, investment banking sources said. The move comes after Life Insurance Corporation of India expressed its wariness in putting in its bid.
The strategic sale of government and state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India stakes in IDBI Bank might encounter procedural delays, potentially pushing the timeline for expected financial bids to the third quarter of the current financial year (2023-24, or FY24), according to sources familiar with the development. Financial bids constitute the second significant step in the divestment process, following expressions of interest (EoIs) from potential bidders. In this phase, bidders are required to quote transactional fee as a percentage of the divestment proceeds, which are then added to the government's kitty after completion of the transaction.
The total assets of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) have grown to about Rs 500,000 crore (Rs 5 trillion) from Rs 381.90 crore (Rs 3.819 billion) five decades ago at the time of nationalisation, a senior official said in Coimbatore.\n\n
The 2019 list shows a 37 per cent jump in brand value for the Tata group, to $19.55 billion for 2019, the highest in the top 25.
This is a good opportunity for long-term investors to pick quality small and midcap stocks at reasonable valuations.
In a bid to get more returns from its properties, Life Insurance Corporation of India has identified 70 sites, spread across the country, for development of either residential or commercial projects.
CNBC-TV18 News reports that it has been able to confirm that the insurance giant is firmly backing Tata Sons. There is thus no possibility that the insurer will exit the group.
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