Unfazed by competition from private players, state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India on Tuesday said it has attained yet another landmark by bringing in 2.05 crore (20.5 million) lives under insurance cover till March 15.
P V Subramanyam clears some misconceptions about debt funds.
Leading home loans provider LIC Housing Finance on Friday cut interest rates for new loans by 0.5 per cent effective from August 1.Another home loan lender HDFC has also cut interest rates on loans between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 50 lakh by 0.50 per cent from August 12.
Thomas Mathew T, managing director, tells Manojit Saha and M Saraswathy about the LIC's strategy and growth plans.
T S Vijayan, whose five-term as the chairman of government-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) ended on Tuesday, is likely to shift to UTI Mutual Fund as the new head.
Country's largest insurer LIC and four leading banks, including the IDBI Bank, may invest around Rs 161 crore (Rs 1.6 billion) in Videocon Industries to fuel its expansion programme.
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), one of the largest institutional investors in the Indian stock market, has become active on the bourses again. This is after a brief lull last month following the bribe-for-loan scam and questions around its stock market dealings.
In an interview with Shilpy Sinha and Sidhartha, LIC Managing Director DK MEHROTRA discusses the public sector player's strategy.
Fifty-one-year-old Sharma, who was earlier serving as the head of parent Life Insurance Corporation for the South Zone, asked investors not to "worry or panic".
IFCI, say sources, owes nearly Rs 500 crore in debt to LIC, which has the option to convert it into equity and take its total stake from 8.4 per cent now to 49%. IFCI's proposed strategic sale has attracted expressions of interest from 10 entities.
Paperless scheme for policy documents, called dematerialisation, will enable easy storage of policies by the policy holders, the President said.
Shedding its image of a brick-and-mortar organisation, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is all set venture into the digital era.
LIC Housing Finance on Thursday announced it will launch reverse mortgage schemes for senior citizens in a couple of months.
Even though the Life Insurance Corporation of India increased its market share to 74 per cent in terms of total new business premium policies in March 2007, compared with 72 per cent in March 2006, it has lost market share.
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.
rediffGURU Jinal Mehta answers readers' financial planning and health insurance queries
Life Insurance Corporation earned Rs 5,800 crore (Rs 58 billion) net profit during 2005-06 while its first premium income during the period grew by a record 48 per cent to Rs 18,085 crore (Rs 180.85 billion).\n
Lapped up 157 mn shares worth Rs 4,000 crore between Jan 1 and Feb 8
Mop-up misses target as big FIIs skip issue.
The Life Insurance Corporation has found a new set of corporate agency partners - shopping mall owners.
Three leading domestic voting advisory firms are not on the same page over the proposed demerger and separate listing of ITC's hotel business, ITC Hotels. Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS) has recommended a vote "against" the resolution, while InGovern and Stakeholders Empowerment Services (SES) have advised their clients to vote in favour. Voting on the resolution is currently underway.
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.
LIC is currently allowing customers to revive policies that have lapsed for more than two years.
LIC Housing Finance on Thursday slashed interest rates for new housing loan customers, intensifying the war for cornering a major pie of the now reviving home loan market.
The country's largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation, has decided to operationalise a system within two years that will allow policy holders to claim benefits and pay premium at any of its over 2,100 branches.
Some called it 'sheer bad luck' for Nair, others talked of a conspiracy.
Ahead of Reserve Bank of India's 's slack season Credit and Monetary Policy, Life Insurance Corporation, one of the biggest players in the financial sector
Life Insurance Corporation has sanctioned Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) loan to Jet Airways for fleet acquisition, Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the defamation complaint against Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav over his alleged 'only Gujaratis can be thugs' remark after he agreed to withdraw the statement.
