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Atul Sahai, CMD, New India Assurance
``Growth and profitability are equally important''
What are your board agenda for NIA now? The year to date permormance has not been great as we were hit by multiple catastrophe claims in India and abroad coupled with non-operational issues like write down of the investments and impact of change in accounting...
- ``We do write a lot of agriculture business and it contributes to about 40% of our business in India''
- ``We are more focused on improving the pricing and the other terms and conditions''
- ``Rapid technology growth compelling pragmatic shift in India's risk mitigation landscape''
- ``18 out of 24 companies are profitable in the Indian life insurance space in 2017-18’’
- ``The idea of sandbox regulation is good as it allows to introduce new products’’
Africa's working-age population likely to top Asian labour force by 2100
Africa’s potential workforce will likely be larger than that of Asia by the end of the 21st century as both continents wrestle with different demographic and economic challenges. The number of 15-to-64-year-old Africans today is a quarter of the size of Asia’s working-age population. By...
