'Somebody was using somebody to make statements that will stir the stock market and lead to a surge.' 'A sudden surge and a sudden crash is always an ideal situation for people to make illicit gains and then siphoning off the money.'
Stock markets will be driven by quarterly earnings by index majors, global trends and the RBI's interest rate decision this week after digesting news on budget proposals and US Federal policy outcome, say analysts. The trading activity of foreign investors and the movement of global oil benchmark Brent crude would also dictate trends in equities. "On the domestic front, the MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) meeting is scheduled from February 6-8.
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 SEBI and the RBI will look into it. Let their reports come in, BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani said.
The government hopes to use this data to assess the extent of financial support needed to recover from the pandemic.
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.
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.
Unit Trust of India and Industrial Finance Corporation of India, which together hold around 23 per cent stake in LIC Housing Finance, are likely to exit from the company even as LICHFL is exploring possibility of a public offer.
LIC has proposed a consolidation of its real estate portfolio and is inviting bids from consultancy organisations.
According to a presentation by LIC to Parliament standing committee on finance, total investment at the end of March 31, 2012 was Rs 13.49 lakh crore or Rs 13.49 trillion.
The country's biggest insurance company Life Insurance Corporation of India is planning to come out with an initial public offer by December 2005 to meet the stipulated IRDA norm of having a minimum paid-up capital of Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion
During the first quarter ended June, 2014-15 fiscal, LIC earned a total premium of Rs 14,016 crore.
LIC sold a total of 58,29,103 shares of the company aggregating 2.018 per cent stake between August 24, 2009 and November 11, 2012 through the open market, Maruti Suzuki India said in a filing to Bombay Stock Exchange.
This is the highest cover offered by any insurance company, under any single employer-employee group life insurance policy in India, Thomas Mathew T, managing director, LIC, told media. The policy between Infosys and LIC was initated in 2002 with a uniform cover of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) per employee covering 12,000 employes for a total sum of Rs 1791 crore (Rs 17.91 billion).
The uncertainty over LIC's top job arose when former chairman TS Vijayan was denied an extension after his term came to an end on May 2.
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.
The Bombay high court has ruled that LIC has to honour claims made by lenders, that is banks, non-banking finance companies and financial institutions, if an LIC policyholder defaults in repaying the loan to the lender.
Life Insurance Corporation of India lost more than 8 per cent market share after posting a marginal 1.93 per cent growth in business last fiscal, while private players grew by more than 153 per cent during 2003-04.
The contract, which involves upgrade of LIC's front-end IT application programmes to make these accessible through the web, is said to be worth about Rs 200 crore, and will be done over five years. It is understood that most large Indian IT outsourcing companies, including TCS, Infosys and L&T Infotech, had competed for the contract. It was considered prestigious, not because of its size but because it involved a prestigious public sector organisation like LIC.
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.
Life Insurance Corporation of India intends to pump in around Rs 1,05,000 crore into non-convertible debentures and equity in the current financial year, nearly 20 per cent more than the Rs 88,000 crore it invested in these instruments in 2008-09.
LIC's Rs 3,000 crore bid helped HAL reach the minimum 10 per cent dilution threshold required for listing, sources said
The Life Insurance Corporation of India, who was supposed to launch the much-awaited Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana from Tuesday, has postponed the scheme indefinitely.\n\n
The state-owned life insurer Life Insurance Corporation of India has decided to introduce strict norms for agents in a move to arrest fraudulent and early claims (arising after first year of the policy). The corporation found that early claims arose due to poor underwriting and moral hazards.
The country's top life insurer, which has over four per cent stake in Satyam, however, ruled out joining the race for acquiring the troubled IT firm, either alone or with L&T.
Moitra brought two birthday caps in the House to press her argument that the businessman being most talked about had "topi-pehnau-ed" the government.
D K Mehrotra, chairman, LIC, tells Business Standard the proposed new product guidelines need to be tailored with some caution.
This is a good opportunity for long-term investors to pick quality small and midcap stocks at reasonable valuations.
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