Indian Insurance

Enthused And Encouraged By The Exemplary Success Of Life Insurance Corporation Of India The Government Of India In The Early 1970S Decided To Bring In The General Insurance Industry Also Into The Vortex Of A Nationalised Setup To Provide Comprehensive Insurance Security To The People Of India.How Effectively And Substantially Life Insurance Corporation Of India And The Four Nationalised General Insurance Companies, The Holding Companies Of General Insurance Corporation Of India, Contributed To Redesigning The Socio-Economic Fabric Of Modern India Is A Part Of The Post Independent Economic History Of India.Though These Two Organisations Have Interlaced And Intertwined Their Destiny With That Of India, The Preference Shift In The Indian Markets, New Realities Of The Global Economic Order, And Demands Arising Out Of Multilateral Trade Agreements Have All Left India With No Option Other Than Throwing Open Its Economic And Commercial Policies To Global Competition And Challenges.

Novi Dewan establishes a status quo of the Indian health and life insurance industry and discusses the best practices for various elements of the marketing mix. She complements secondary research with recent empirical data accentuating the emerging opportunities and challenges in the Indian Insurance Industry by using standardized interviews with opinion leaders and CEOs of several insurers.

This book presents the first comprehensive review of all major government-supported health insurance schemes in India and their potential for contributing to the achievement of universal coverage in India are discussed.

This book bridges the gap between the accounting and the actuarial sides of Indian life insurance companies, by exploring the relationships between the embedded value calculated by actuaries and the revenue account and balance sheet prepared by the accountants. The author provides publicly available sources of information to place a value on the shares of Indian life insurance companies from an outsider’s point of view. Life insurance company accounts are complex and require knowledge of specific concepts in order to analyze and appreciate them. This book will help a layperson with reasonable numerical abilities understand the calculation of the share price of a life insurance company. In particular, it will help analysts and accountants with no actuarial background understand the concepts of embedded and appraisal value. Cash flow statements of these companies are often ignored and delegated to the background or usually to a single page in their annual reports. This book examines the cash flows in detail and rearranges them to get a better picture of the financial health of the underlying companies. It also explains the relationship between the different measures of profit such as cash reserves, surplus, profit after tax, and embedded value. Often this information is only available internally or to consultants. The author uses alternative approaches based purely on public disclosures by these companies, thereby enabling professionals without access to internal information to come to informed judgments about the actual performance of the companies.