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.
This year's investment in equities would be one the highest
D K Mehrotra, chairman, LIC, tells Business Standard the proposed new product guidelines need to be tailored with some caution.
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.
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.
T S Vijayan makes a strong comeback man.
If you think that revenue officials are going berserk, acting on their own, while the government chants the mantra of 'ease of doing business', you would be wrong. These moves appear to have full official backing, points out Debashis Basu.
The ongoing weakness in the broader equity market is likely to weigh on primary market investor participation ahead, which has already begun showing signs of fatigue, analysts said. The spillover effect, they say, will continue as long as the midcap and smallcap segments remain volatile. "The effect will be felt in the IPO market. The subscription levels have come down in the last few days and recent 4-5 IPOs have not done well.
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.
'One day I want to bowl the fastest ball in the world.'
Thomas Mathew T, managing director, tells Manojit Saha and M Saraswathy about the LIC's strategy and growth plans.
This is a good opportunity for long-term investors to pick quality small and midcap stocks at reasonable valuations.
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.
There are certain plans that you can opt for that also cover dental treatments, says rediffGURU Sanjib Jha.
In his poll rallies, Modi framed Pitroda's comments in his wider onslaught against the Congress, asserting that they have exposed its hidden agenda and that the party has become so removed from the country's social and family values that it wants to legally rob people of their assets and lifelong savings they want to bequeath to their children.
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.
