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Life insurance industry’s total premium grows by 2% to Rs 3,77 trillion in FY 24
LIC has seen its total premium falling by 4 per cent to around Rs...
HDFC Life Q4 profit rises 15 pc to Rs 412 crore
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Munich Re launches automated underwriting solution in APAC life insurance market
“The life insurance industry is evolving and insurers who embrace the latest technologies can reach customers in new and innovative ways, gaining a competitive advantage. This is especially crucial in challenging market environments such as these. With the ability to get up and running quickly, ALLFINANZ SPARK enables firms to ignite the digital underwriting experience faster than ever before, providing the services they need to reach new customers and new markets.” says Declan O’Neill, Executive Vice-President for Product & Data at Munich Re Automation Solutions.
ICICI Bank divests 1.5% stake in ICICI Pru Life for Rs 840 crores
The Government of Singapore today has acquired 1.14 percent equity stake in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company through open market transactions on June 22.It bought 1,64,30,820 equity shares (representing 1.14 percent of the total paid up equity capital) of ICICI Prudential at Rs 391.6 per share, as per bulk deals data on the National Stock Exchange.
The ICICI Bank’s shareholding in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited stands at approximately 51.4%
AIA receives nod for China’s first wholly foreign owned life insurance company
China removed foreign shareholding restrictions on life insurers in January to further open up the financial market
AIA Company Limited has received approval from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission to convert its Shanghai Branch into a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIA Co. This new subsidiary will be incorporated in Shanghai and is the first wholly foreign owned life insurance company approved for incorporation in Mainland China,said AIA .
AIA will now begin the application process for separate regulatory approvals to establish branches of the newly incorporated subsidiary in additional territories in Mainland China.
Insurers need to be flexible with customers following unemployment spikes,says GlobalData
“Insurers need to be flexible with their customers in order to reduce the impact of rising unemployment. Payment holidays can help for a limited time period. Insurers should also be flexible and allow their customers to adjust their level of cover to one that is more affordable for them. The development of usage-based policies and short-term, on-demand policies with lower premiums will also help insurers retain some of their customers during difficult times, said Yasha Kuruvilla, Insurance Analyst at GlobalData
Finance Ministry invites bids from transaction advisors for LIC’s mega IPO, may hit the market in second half of fiscal
The government currently owns 100 per cent in LIC.The IPO which was announced by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Budget 2020, is likely to hit the market in the second half of the current fiscal.
Sitharaman said government wants to raise around Rs 90,000 crore from its disinvestment plans in IDBI, where it holds 46 per cent and LIC, where it has 100 per cent stake and may offload 10-12 per cent of its holding.
S&P affirms SCOR’s ‘AA-’ rating with ‘stable outlook’, recognises group’s ability to absorb COVID-19 pandemic shock
Denis Kessler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of SCOR, commented “We welcome Standard & Poor’s decision to affirm SCOR’s Financial Ratings. This decision demonstrates the Group’s ability to offer its clients an optimum level of security and the resilience of its business model, particularly in the current pandemic crisis. It also clearly reinforces the relevance of our strategy as a global Tier one reinsurer”.
Nigeria’s Swiss Re backed life insurer sees sales surge as Pandemic take hold
“Health workers are demanding it, other state governments and municipalities that didn’t have it before are now looking at it differently,” Leadway Assurance Co. Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Tunde Hassan-Odukale said in an interview in Lagos. “People who were not doing group life insurance before, are now looking at it on a corporate basis.”
Sales of group life policies have jumped 10% this year and the trend is expected to continue with COVID-19 cases in Nigeria still on the rise, he said. This may help to counteract pressure on the firm’s retail business, where individual life policies could be hit by a slowdown in economic activity because of lockdown measures to curb the spread of the disease.
80% of working Indians have experienced income loss: Generali study
95 per cent of Indians surveyed expect some form of relief in the case of income loss. 53 per cent of those who have experienced losses expect help from the government. 60 per cent are planning to dig into their savings and investments, while 39% expect help from family members. Significantly, 40 per cent of Indians expect their employers to step in with some form of relief.
Covid -19 Pandemic:U.S. life/annuity industry posts a $23.1 billion net income loss in Q1 2020
According to the report, the L/A industry saw a $23.7 billion increase in total income to $230.4 billion for the period.
However, a $94.1 billion increase in total expenses, mainly due to a combined $57.3 billion year-over-year increase in aggregate reserves for life and accident and health contracts at Prudential, Brighthouse, Jackson National, AXA Equitable and Transamerica, negated the rise in total income.
Covid-19 Pandemic:Life insurers’ new premium income falls 26 % to Rs 13,739 crores in May
In terms of policies, the industry has seen its numbers plunging by almost 60 per cent y-o-y to 11, 12,2411 in the first two months of the fiscal.For the month of May, at 5,071,992, the industry has almost lost 65 per cent in the same category.