In the Budget, Arun Jaitley had proposed that LIC will set up a dedicated fund to provide credit enhancement to infrastructure projects
Overall, persistency ratio of insurance policies from the fourth year onwards is becoming a concern area for life insurance companies.
Private insurers snap at the heels of the public sector behemoth, closing the gap with the lead insurer according to a survey by IMRB
Banking law caps voting rights at 10% and insurer's holding is over this limit in 18 banks
Healthy growth of net interest income, net interest margin, loan book in quarter
Life insurance giant LIC has made a profit of Rs 11,000 crore through its equity investments in the recently concluded 2015-16, a senior official said today. "We saw some profit booking opportunities during the fiscal and have made a profit of Rs 11,000 crore through our equity investments in the recently concluded FY16," its executive director for investment operations, Pravin Kutumbe told reporters on the sidelines of an event here. He said the largest domestic investor pumped-in Rs 2.70 lakh crore across equity and debt markets in the fiscal, of which Rs 65,000 crore was in the equity segment. The depressed markets towards the latter part of the year led to the corporation exceeding on its equity investments target of Rs 60,000 crore announced earlier, he said. He said the banking sector, where a thorough clean-up is underway, presents value buying opportunities at present. The executive director, however, declined to give a sense of how the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of
Insurer to infuse Rs 200 cr into the bank
The state-owned insurer's stake has increased by 3.9 percentage points to 12.98% in NTPC
LIC raised stake in Bajaj Auto, Axis Bank, Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India and HeroMoto Corp among others, during the quarter