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Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical ...
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian multinational public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest insurance company as well as the largest institutional investor with total assets under management worth ₹52.52 trillion (US$630 billion) as of March 2024. [4]
The first unit-linked insurance plan was launched by Unit Trust of India. [1] With the Government of India opening up the insurance sector to foreign investors in 2001 [2] and the subsequent issue of major guidelines for unit-linked insurance plans by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, now the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, in 2005, [3] several ...
The Government of India decided to nationalise the insurance industry. An ordinance was issued on 19 January 1956, nationalising the life-insurance sector, and the Life Insurance Corporation was established that year. The LIC absorbed 154 Indian and 16 non-Indian insurers and 75 provident societies. The LIC had a monopoly until the late 1990s ...
Life insurance is one of the growing sectors in India since 2000 as Government allowed Private players and FDI up to 26% and recently Cabinet approved a proposal to increase it to 49%. In 1955, mean risk per policy of Indian and foreign life insurers amounted respectively to ₹2,950 & ₹7,859 [1] (worth ₹15 lakh & ₹41 lakh in 2017 prices).
General Insurance Corporation of India Limited, (abbreviated as GIC Re), is an Indian public sector reinsurance company, headquarters in Mumbai, India. It was incorporated on 22 November 1972 under Companies Act, 1956. It was the sole nationalised reinsurance company in the Indian insurance market until the insurance market was open to foreign ...
The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (NIA) is an Indian public sector insurance company owned by the Government of India and administered by the Ministry of Finance. Headquartered in Mumbai , [ 5 ] it is the largest nationalised general insurance company of India based on gross premium collection inclusive of foreign operations. [ 6 ]
Reliance Capital. Nippon Life. Website. www.reliancenipponlife.com. Reliance Nippon Life Insurance Company (RNLI) is a life insurance company in India. The firm offers life insurance products targeted at individuals and groups, catering to four distinct segments: protection, children, retirement and investment plans.