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Budget 2025: Insurers and experts hail game changing moves
The FDI limit being raised from 74% to 100% will prove to be a...
Union Budget 2025-26: Reshaping Indian insurance landscape
Tapan Singhel, MD&CEO, Bajaj General Insurance& Chairman,...
LIC owns 4% of all listed stocks in India, more govt bonds than the RBI
With Rs 6 lakh cr market cap on a PAT of Rs 3,000 crore makes a PE ratio of 200x. In our view PE ratio is not comparable with private players as LIC's distribution policy is now changed and higher allocation towards shareholders account in upcoming future to rise and...
Delhi HC again adjourns `Singh-BBB’ case to May 19
Inderjeet Singh, general manger, New India Assurance(NIA), has gone to Delhi HC on the issue of appointment of Satyajit Tripathy (who is currently CMD, United India Insurance (UII)) by the government on the basis of recommendation of the Banks Board Bureau(BBB)...
LIC’s Rs 21k IPO sees strong demand from anchor investors
Norwegian wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC have subscribed to the anchor book, the source said Alongside other global funds, domestic mutual fund houses such as HDFC mutual fund, SBI, ICICI and Kotak have also come...
India’s Covid positivity rate past 1% again after 2 months
The number of active cases rose by 408 in a 24-hour span to reach 19,500, the data updated at 8 am showed New Delhi: India's Covid case positivity rate went past one per cent again after over two months as the country witnessed a single-day rise of 3,157 infections...
LIC IPO gets larger bids from anchor investors
Singapore’s GIC Pte and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund are among the anchor investors Mumbai: Life Insurance of Corporation of India’s initial public offering gets bids from large investors for twice the size of the anchor book, according to people with the knowledge...
LIC keen to retain some stake in IDBI Bank for bancassurance gains: Chairman
MR Kumar , chairman,, LIC “Strictly speaking, we are below the threshold limit of management control but then, what government really means is that management control is to be given in such a way that a private entity picks up and runs the bank, and government in the...
Generali CEO Donnet survives but faces rebel pressure
Philippe Donnet, CEO,Generali, “The unambiguous choice of a majority of shareholders is proof of the confidence they have in our management team and strategic plan,” said Donnet, who enjoyed the backing of leading investor Mediobanca and Generali’s institutional...
FinMin, Sebi to take call on relaxation in LIC meeting minimum public holding norm: DIPAM Secy
Under the Sebi's minimum public shareholding norms, listed entities with a valuation of over one lakh crore need to have at least 25 per cent public shareholding within 5 years of listing. The government had last year exempted public sector entities from this norm New...
LIC IPO price attractive; lot of growth potential: Chairman Kumar
More than the embedded value one should look at the value for new business (VNB) going forward, and it should reach 12-13 in the future, LIC Chairman MR Kumar said VNB margin is what investors would be looking at and it is 9 for LIC at present, he said. New Delhi: LIC...
Record global InsurTech funding of $15.8 billion in 2021:Report
By the end of 2021, an enormous $41.65 billion had been invested globally into InsurTechs across 2,249 deals in 63 countries. It included 99 mega-round deals, which accounted for $21.88 billion of the total. Therefore, more than half of all the investment (52%)...