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Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian public 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$660 billion) as of March 2024. [3]
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).
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 ...
The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. ( OICL) is an Indian public sector insurance company owned by the Government of India and administered by the Ministry of Finance. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company has 29 regional offices and more than 2,000 active branches nationwide. It also has branches in Nepal, Kuwait, and Dubai that together ...
10,356 [2] (2022-23) Website. uiic .co .in. United India Insurance Company ( UIIC) is an Indian public sector insurance company owned by the Government of India and administered by the Ministry of Finance. Headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the company has 30 regional offices and more than 1,400 operating offices nationwide, including 511 ...
By 2020 Indian Insurance is a US$280 billion industry. However, only 500 million people (36.23% of the total population of 1 billion) are covered under Mediclaim. [5] With more and more private companies in the sector, this situation is expected to grow more. ECGC, ESIC and AIC provide insurance services for niche markets.
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]
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance started its operations in 2001. The life insurance arm was established as a joint venture between ICICI Bank Limited and Prudential Corporation Holdings Limited with assets under management (AUM) of approx. ₹ 1 billion (US$13 million). In 2005, the company crossed the mark of 1 million policies.