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While the first half of 2009-10 has seen a substantia mitigation of the
financial effects of the crisis an markets and covering, the crisis has raised
serious concerns compelling Governments and Regulators to consider
various steps necessary to strengthen the financial system in the long term.
This is an evolving exercise under the leadership of the G-20. The principal
elements of the strategy recommended by the G-20 are to make more
robust the Capital Adequacy and Solvency norms specified for various types
of financial enterprises, more comprehensive regulatory oversight, increased
surveillance of large and systemically critical financial entities and greater
sharing of information across countries.
Insurance in India has been viewed as a tax saving instrument and risk
cover in life insurance was purely incidental. The mindset continues to be the
same, although the unit-linked instruments are becoming popular. The
emergence of pure risk products has thus taken a back seat. Lapsation is a
serious issue. Life insurers are striving to design imaginative products so as
to ensure long term commitments from the policyholders. In the process
there is a need for the distributors to play a key role in identifying the needs
of the prospect and then sell insurance so that long-term retention of
customers is established. In India, most of the healthcare spending is by way
of out-of-pocket expenses and in this background the sudden surge of health
insurance with a 60 per cent growth is phenomenal. Besides, health
insurance portfolio is itself new to the Indian domain and thus the growth is
additionally significant. A part of this growth is certainly on account of the
increase in the awareness levels of the people. Nevertheless, it is not that
everything is hunky dory and fine with the class. Customer grievances
continue to haunt the health insurers. Issues relating to providing health
insurance to senior citizens, and at affordable premiums are an area that has
been in the limelight. With better clarity on pre-existing diseases and
premium rates, it is hoped that a lot of controversies associated with this
class could be nullified. It is also important, that policyholders should realize
the importance and the basic principles of insurance, before getting into any
claim-related disputes.
Performance of Life insurance companies in 2009-2010
During the first quarter of the current financial year life insurers
underwrote a premium of Rs.14456.34 crore, marginally higher than
Rs.14320.20 crore in the comparable period of last year. LIC accounted for
Rs.9028.68 crore and the private insurers accounted for Rs.5427.66 crore.
While the premium underwritten by LIC increased by 19.99 per cent,
premium of the private insurers declined by 20.13 per cent over the
corresponding period of the previous year. The number of policies written by
life insurers grew by 12.06 per cent. While the number of policies written
By LIC increased by 22.59 per cent, there has been a decline of 6.57 per cent
in the case of private insurers. Of the total premium underwritten, individual
premium accounted for Rs.10308.40 crore and the remaining Rs.4147.93
crore came from the group business. In respect of LIC, individual business
was Rs.5963.64 crore and group business was Rs.3065.04 crore. The
corresponding figures for private insurers were Rs.4344.75 crore and
Rs.1082.90 crore respectively
In the period ranging from April-December 2009, the total new premium
income soared to Rs 67557.61 crore posting a growth of 29.2%. In the same
period of the previous year, the premium collection stood at Rs 52298.86
crore.
However, the scenario was not same for all the companies. SBI Life, after
reporting profits for 3 years in a row, faced a loss of Rs 26.31 crore in 2008-
09. ICICI Prudential also incurred a record loss of Rs 779.70 crore.
The 17 private insurers increased their market share from about 15% to
about 19% in a year's time. The figures for the first two months of the fiscal
year 2007-08 also speak of the growing share of the private insurers. The
share of LIC for this period has further come down to 75 percent, while the
private players have grabbed over 24 percent.
With the opening up of the insurance industry in India many foreign players
have entered the market. The restriction on these companies is that they are
not allowed to have more than a 26% stake in a company’s ownership.
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Growth of Insurance Companies.
When the insurance sector was opened up for private insurance companies
in 1999 many players opted for JVs with foreign players who were
recognised across the globe. Over the last 8 years, consumer awareness
about insurance improved considerably. Moreover, increased competition
pushed up product innovation and stepped up customer servicing options in
the sector. All these positive developments made a good impact on the
economy and generated income and employment within the sector.
LIC still remains the largest life insurance company accounting for 64%
market share. Its share, however, has dropped from 74% a year before,
mainly owing to entry of private players with innovative products and better
sales force.
LIC witnessed decline in sales by 24% for new business premium for the first
four months for the current financial year.
Total sales stood at Rs 10,797.1 crore during April-July as against new sales
of Rs 14,186.04 crore in the corresponding period last financial year.
This is was mainly due to slowdown in economy and crash of stock market.
Also, private companies are eating the share of LIC by introducing innovative
products.
State Bank of India has a 74% equity stake and the balance 26%
is held by French firm Cardif SA in SBI Life insurance. The
company broke even in March 2006.
It’s the fourth year of operations. SBI Life leveraged the 14,000-
odd bank branches of its parent SBI to push insurance policies.
The company grew 142.5% in the first four months of the current
fiscal year. Total market share of the company increased from
3.14% in 2006-07 to 5.15% in 2007-08, making it the 4th largest
company in India.
The company this year got approval to open 100 more branches
to sell life insurance products.
RLIC has been one of the fast gainers in market share in new
business premium amongst the private players. It has crossed 1.7
Million policies in just two years of operations, after its takeover of
AMP Sanmar business.
Diagrame.
Company Growth
Lic 5%
Icici prudential 58%
Bajaj Allianz 52%
SBI 142.5%
Reliance 196%
Webliography
• www.Google.com
• www.irda.com
• http://business.mapsofindia.com/insurance/performa
nce-Indian-life-insurance.html
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