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“For 2021, we expect the pricing to maintain. In the non-proportional segment, pricing is soft and challenging” GLN Sarma,CEO, Hannover Re, India Branch

“For 2021, we expect the pricing to maintain. In the non-proportional segment, pricing is soft and challenging” GLN Sarma,CEO, Hannover Re, India Branch

Germany based Hannover Re, is the third-largest global reinsurance group, with a gross premium of around €24 billion. It has set up its India branch office in Mumbai three years back and has ambitious plans for India as part of its long term Asian growth strategies....

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Tatas and Max Life Insurance foray into pension sector, apply for licenses to become pension fund mangers

Axis bank also wants to set up a company as Pension Fund Manager and is waiting for approvals from Reserve Bank of india (RBI) which may be completed  in next 15 days.
So far, NPS has seen a 60% jump in NPS onboarding in the first six months of this financial year and our returns (in CAGR) is more than 10%  over a period of 12 years. The total corpus has grown to Rs. 6.67 trillion and the total number of subscribers is 4.60 crores as on 25th September, 2021.

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‘Flipping’ by startups poses security threat, says SJM

Ashwani Mahajan, National Co-Convener of SJM – a wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, says unicorns with over USD 1 billion valuation ‘flipping’ means avoiding Indian regulatory oversight and loss of revenue to the country.

”India has been proud of its startups creating immense value and adding to the GDP of the country. But our happiness remains short-lived when we find that they have not remained Indian any more. Most of these high ticket startups have flipped away and are no longer Indian companies in essence,” he told PTI.

Flipping means a transaction where an Indian company incorporates a firm in a foreign jurisdiction, which is then made the holding company of the subsidiary in India. The most favourable foreign jurisdictions for Indian companies are Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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WPP settles with US SEC charges of bribery in India, other FCPA violations; to pay $19 mn to watchdog

Issuing an order after accepting WPP’s offer to settle the matter, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the bribery scheme took place at a WPP’s majority-owned subsidiary in India, which through intermediaries paid as much as a million dollars in bribes to Indian officials to obtain and retain government business.

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