The unclaimed funds within the life insurance sector are higher from policies sold by agents as against other channels like bancassurance or a digital platform, said analysts and officials from insurance companies. Unclaimed life insurance funds refer to the proceeds of insurance policies including death or survival benefits not claimed by the beneficiary or the policyholder. Bancassurance means selling an insurance product through banks.
The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Irda) is planning to issue a notice to Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to stop the latter from allowing policy holders to nominate "strangers" (those who are not close relatives) and religious institutions as beneficiaries of life policy claims.
This is a single premium non-linked insurance plan where the risk cover is five times of premium chosen by the customer and offers guaranteed returns at maturity.
T S Vijayan makes a strong comeback man.
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.
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.
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The SEBI and the RBI will look into it. Let their reports come in, BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani said.
'Those betting against PSUs will likely be punished in this upswing.'
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.
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
Mutual funds (MFs) are likely to surpass foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in terms of anchor investments in initial public offerings (IPOs) for the second consecutive year. In calendar year 2023 so far, MFs have invested Rs 5,577 crore as anchor investors, compared to the Rs 5,417 crore invested by FPIs this year. In 2022, MFs put in Rs 9,026 crore as anchor investment, 21 per cent higher than the FPI tally of Rs 7,105 crore. This marked the first time since 2014 that MFs had outpaced FPIs in anchor investments.
Lapped up 157 mn shares worth Rs 4,000 crore between Jan 1 and Feb 8
The Life Insurance Corporation has found a new set of corporate agency partners - shopping mall owners.
