...Karachi Stock Market is approximately US$ 72 billion. Out of this financial sector constitutes 41% of the total market capitalization of Karachi Stock Exchange. However, the Insurance Sector is a small one and needs immediate attention for its growth, development and rapid expansion to meet the challenge of 21st Century for accelerating socio-economic growth of Pakistan with an emphasis on wider prosperity. Insurance Sector has registered a very slow growth in the history of Pakistan. Based on our research, the following conclusions emerge: 1. Listed insurance sector on Karachi Stock Exchange in terms of companies is only 4.4%. 2. Share of listed insurance sector on total listed companies on Karachi Stock Exchange is only 1.41%. 3. Out of 637 listed companies, only 29 relate to insurance sector. 4. From the birth of Pakistan till now we have added only 29 listed companies- giving us a ratio of less than 0.5 per company per year. 5. Turnover for 10 months (January – October 2007) on the Karachi Stock market was only 1.55% of the total turnover. 6. Share of insurance sector on listed companies on Karachi Stock Exchange is only 3.83% in respect of Market Capitalization. 7. Share of insurance in GDP of Pakistan is only 1.80%. Ten percentage companies’ shares are listed below par. Therefore, these are sick. They need revival. 8. In the case of life insurance there is a vast scope. State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan should be immediately privatized. Their Mission...
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...in the Indian insurance sector which in turn results in restructuring and revitalizing of public sector companies. Privatisation of the Insurance Sector Worker's Opposition Gaining Momentum Lakhs of insurance employees have been waging struggle over the past two months against the introduction of the Insurance privatisation bill in parliament. On December 1, a country-wide strike was observed. Earlier on November 29, massive rallies and dharnas were staged in Delhi as well as all the state capitals. On October 30th, 2 lakh insurance sector employees staged a nation-wide strike to oppose opening up of the insurance sector to the plunder of private and foreign capital. Earlier a petition on behalf of the 1.5 crore insurance employees had been placed in Parliament. The ruling class is particularly desperate to get this Bill passed because, firstly it would open up a whole new lucrative sector to the Indian and foreign big finance capital. The present size of the Indian insurance and pension funds market is Rs. 40,000 crores, but research studies have predicted that it has a potential of Rs. 70,000 crores. Secondly, the Bill is supposed to signal to capitalists around the world that the Indian bourgeoisie has now installed a "stable" government at the centre and that it will be speeding up the reforms - a demand that was placed as a precondition for any party to be elected to power in the recent elections. The Bill, if passed, will open up the insurance sector to private capital...
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...MIS IN Insurance Sector The most important aspect for any financial services institution dealing with today’s regulatory framework is the need to build an integration, risk, compliance and regulatory environment. The globalization of business, the proliferation of, and dependency on, technology, and the preservation of a trusted and secure environment to facilitate financial institutions, all require financial services organizations to have in place the mechanisms to ensure sound and reliable security and privacy. The industry's landscape is continuously changing and increasing in complexity across financial services, causing firms to face a diverse array of challenges and concerns. Role of Private sector has grown rapidly in the service industry, especially with reference to Insurance management. insurance in India covers both the public and private sector organisations Recently we are witnessing an enhanced competition in the insurance industry probably due to the opening up of this sector to private participants. There is a close inter-action between insurance and economic growth. As economy grows, the living standards of people increase. As a consequence, demand for insurance increases. As the assets of people and of business enterprises increase in the growth process, the demand for general insurance also increases. With the widening of the economy, the demand for new types of insurance products emerges. Insurance now extends not only to product market but also to service...
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...com/blogs Insurance Digest for LIC AAO 2016 Exam Dear readers, This Insurance Digest is complete Information of important terms and plan & Policies and history. The Insurance Digest is important and relevant for all Insurance exams like - LIC AAO 2016 Exam, NICL, NIACL, Insurance and other Insurance Exams. What is Insurance? - Insurance is defined as a contract between two parties whereby one party called insurer undertakes in exchange for a fixed sum called premium to pay the other party called insured a fixed amount of money after happening of a certain event. According to the Indian Contract Act 1872, “A Contract may be defined as an agreement between two or more parties to do or to abstain from doing an act, with an intention to create a legally binding relationship.” Benefits of Insurance – It safeguards your money. It ensures growth of money. Life insurance policies are broadly categorized into 2 types – Traditional Plans and Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs). History-of-Life-Insurance-Corporation (LIC) - Life Insurance Corporation (India) (LIC) is an Indian state-owned insurance group and investment company headquartered in Mumbai. The Life Insurance Corporation of India was founded in 1956 when the Parliament of India passed the Life Insurance of India Act that nationalized the private insurance industry in India. Over 245 insurance companies and provident societies were merged to create the state owned Life Insurance Corporation. The Life Insurance Companies...
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...INTRODUCTION INSURANCE SECTOR IN INDIA The Insurance sector in India governed by Insurance Act, 1938, the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 and General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) Act, 1999 and other related Acts. With such a large population and the untapped market area of this population Insurance happens to be a very big opportunity in India. Today it stands as a business growing at the rate of 15-20 per cent annually. Together with banking services, it adds about 7 per cent to the country's GDP .In spite of all this growth the statistics of the penetration of the insurance in the country is very poor. Nearly 80% of Indian populations are without Life insurance cover and the Health insurance. This is an indicator that growth potential for the insurance sector is immense in India. It was due to this immense growth that the regulations were introduced in the insurance sector and in continuation "Malhotra Committee" was constituted by the government in 1993 to examine the various aspects of the industry. The key element of the reform process was Participation of overseas insurance companies with 26% capital. Creating a more efficient and competitive financial system suitable for the requirements of the economy was the main idea behind this reform. Since then the insurance industry has gone through many sea changes .The competition LIC started facing from these companies were threatening to the...
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...Research Vol.2 Issue 7, July 2012, ISSN 2249 8826 Online available at http://zenithresearch.org.in/ ROLE OF INSURANCE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA MONALISA GHOSAL* ABSTRACT The economic development of India was dominated by socialist –influenced policies, stateowner sector, and red tape and extensive regulations, collectively known as ‘License Raj’. The Indian economic development got a boost through its Economic reforms in 1991 and again through its renewal in the 2000. Insurance serves a number of valuable economic functions that are largely distinct from other types of financial intermediaries. Insurance contribution materially to economic growth by improving the investment climate and promoting a more efficient mix of activities then would be undertaken, in the absence of risk management instrument. Insurance sector in India is one of the most booming sectors of the economy and is growing at the rate of 15-20 percent per annum. In India, insurance is a flourishing industry, with several national and international players competing with each others and growing at rapid rates. Indian insurance companies offer a comprehensive range of insurance plans, a range that is growing as the economy matures and the wealth of the middle classes increases. Due to the growing demand for insurance, more and more companies are now emerging in the Indian insurance sector. The economy of India is the eleventh largest in the world by nominal GDP and the forth largest by Purchasing Power...
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...individuals or groups that intend to utilize it for private benefits and run the entity with the aim of profit maximization. In other words, it is a route from public or state ownership to private players or a group. From the other point of view, it is a strategy that provides advantages to a few at the price of many. However, this is always subjected to the circumstances involved. In this paper, the aim is to understand the major advantages and disadvantages of privatization in this country. Index Terms: Privatisation, advantages, Public administration. I. INTRODUCTION Privatization is a managerial approach that has attracted the interest of many categories of peopleacademicians, politicians, government employees, players of the private sector, and public on the whole. As per the opinion by the subject experts, privatization can be advantageous in terms of the higher flexibility and scope of innovation it offers along with cost savings, many a times. However, other specialists defiantly debate that privatization has an adverse impact on the employee morale and generate fear of dislocation or termination. More likely it also adds on to the apprehensions pertaining to accountability and quality. Experts both advocate and criticize privatization making it more or less a provocative...
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...Literature Review The purpose of this study is to get an in depth understanding of the insurance industry to understand what could be the impact of FDI on Indian insurance industry. To strengthen this study and get in-depth understanding of the variables that could impacted due to FDI a review of the past research has been done in this section. An empirical study by (Li, Donghui; Moshirian, Fariborz; Sim, Ah-Boon, 2003) done on the U.S. insurance sector concludes that FDI contributes significantly to the volume of trade. This prompted studies to identify what are the important and significant variables that attract FDI in insurance. There have been many papers published that study the factors that lead to participation of in international insurers in a country’s insurance sector. A study by (Li & Moshirian, 2004) of the US insurance services for the period 1984-1998 tries to identify factors that increases the desirability for FDI in insurance. The major factors that this study identifies are national income, relative cost of capital, relative wage rate, total trade in insurance services, exchange rate volatility, FDI in banking, source country’s insurance market size and the financial development of the host country. Other studies that intend to find determinants that attract foreign participation in insurance market include study by (Ma & Pope, 2003) .The study reveals that major foreign market characteristics that determine international insurers participation...
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...Comparative study of LIC of India & private Life Insurance companies in India. Introduction: The Indian life insurance industry has its own origin and history, since its inception. It has passed through many obstacles, hindrances to attain the present status. Insurance owes its existence to 17th century England. In fact, it took shape in 1688 at a rather interesting place called Lloyd's Coffee House in London, where merchants, ship-owners and underwriters met to discuss and transact business. The first stock companies to get into the business of insurance were chartered in England in 1720. The year 1735 saw the birth of the first insurance company in the American colonies in Charleston. In 1759, the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia sponsored the first life insurance corporation in America for the benefit of ministers and their dependents. Life insurance in its modern form came to India from England in 1818 with the formation of Oriental Life Insurance Company (OLIC) in Kolkata mainly by Europeans to help widows of their kin. Later, due to persuasion by one of its directors (Shri Babu Muttyal Seal), Indians were also covered by the company. However, it was after 1840 that life insurance really took off in a big way. By1868, 285 companies were doing business of insurance in India. Earlier these companies were governed by Indian company Act 1866. By 1870, 174 companies ceased to exist, when British Parliament enacted Insurance Act 1870. These companies however, insured European...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Centre for Risk & Insurance Studies Privatization of the Insurance Market in India: From the British Raj to Monopoly Raj to Swaraj Tapen Sinha CRIS Discussion Paper Series – 2002.X Privatization of the Insurance Market in India: From the British Raj to Monopoly Raj to Swaraj by Tapen Sinha, Ph.D. ING Comercial America Chair Professor Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, Mexico and Professor, School of Business University of Nottingham, UK tapen@itam.mx, tapen@nottingham.ac.uk Abstract We examine the institution of insurance in India. Over the past century, Indian insurance industry has gone through big changes. It started as a fully private system with no restriction on foreign participation. After the independence, the industry went to the other extreme. It became a state-owned monopoly. In 1991, when rapid changes took place in many parts of the Indian economy, nothing happened to the institutional structure of insurance: it remained a monopoly. Only in 1999, a new legislation came into effect signaling a change in the insurance industry structure. We examine what might happen in the future when the domestic private insurance companies are allowed to compete with some foreign participation. Because of the time dependence of insurance contracts, it is highly unlikely that these erstwhile monopolies are going to disappear. Acknowledgement: I would like to thank Rebecca Benedict and Samik Dasgupta for their input in...
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...iosrjournals.org Contribution of Insurance Sector to Growth and Development of the Indian Economy 1 1 2 Dr. M.Subba Rao, 2R. Srinivasulu M.Com, M.Phil, Ph.D Principal Sri Balaji P.G College (MBA) Anantapur – 515002 Andhra Pradesh - India M.Com, M.B.A Research Scholar Department of Commerce S.K University – Anantapur Andhra Pradesh India Abstract: For economic development, investment are necessary, investments are made out of savings. Insurance Company is a major instrument for the mobilization of savings of people particularly from the middle and lower income groups. These savings are channelized into investment for economic growth. Insurance serves a number of valuable economic functions that are largely distinct from other types of financial intermediaries. According to the official estimates, Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.6% (+/- 0.25%) in the fiscal year 2012–2013. However, leading financial organizations and economic think-tanks expect Indian economy to grow slower than official projections. The economy of India is the tenth-largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS. On a per capita income basis, India ranked 140th by nominal GDP and 129th by GDP (PPP) in 2011, according to the IMF. Fortunately, in the past few years, several interesting lines of research have begun to map the specific contributions of insurance to the economic growth process...
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...“The effects of FDI on the Indian Insurance Industry” Abstract Chapter-1 1.1 Introduction In the world of increased competition and rapid technological changes, globalization has played a complimentary role over the past years. Globalization has encouraged more and more multinationals to adopt FDI. According to Charles W.L. Hill (1998) “FDI occurs when a firm invests directly in facilities to produce and market a product in a foreign country”. The growth of FDI is more than the growth of world trade and world output so role played by FDI in world economics is very vital. Patterson, N. and Montanjees, M. (2004) say that FDI is the most favoured form of external finance for the reason that it is non-debt creating, non- volatile and the outcome depends upon the projects performance initiated by investors. FDI is advantageous because it facilitates international trade and transfer of technology, knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that attract FDI. De Mello (1999) asserts that scope for business in a country, opportunities for expansion, market size etc are some of the factors that attract FDI. Growth rate of a company or an industry leads to magnetism of more and more investment as investors know that their investment is safe enough. According to Dunning, J. (1981) Availability of valuable and unique resources in an industry such as cheap production capacity, cheap skilled labour and advanced technology which are necessary for running...
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...Retail Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Planning systems or the ERP systems refer to the software packages that integrate all the data and the related processes of an organization into a unified Information System (IS). An ERP system uses a central database that holds all the data relating to the various system modules. In order to achieve a seamless integration, an ERP system uses multiple hardware and software components. ERP packages are heavily used by larger retail chains. Designed to facilitate the administration and optimization of internal business processes across an enterprise, ERP packages have become the competitive tool for most large retail organizations. An ERP software uses a single database that allows the different departments to communicate with each other through information sharing. ERP systems comprise function-specific components that are designed to interact with the other modules such as the Order Entry, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Distribution etc. ERP systems comprise of different modules such as order entry, purchase, sales, finances, inventory management, DRP (Distribution Resource Planning) and human resources. The components are designed to work effortlessly with the rest of the system and provide a consistent user interface throughout the system. ERP software packages have an enterprise wide reach that offers cross-functional capabilities to the organization. The different functional departments involved...
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...Insurance Sector Privatization The entry of private players helps in spreading and deepening the operations in the Indian insurance sector which in turn results in restructuring and revitalizing of public sector companies. Privatisation of the Insurance Sector Worker's Opposition Gaining Momentum Lakhs of insurance employees have been waging struggle over the past two months against the introduction of the Insurance privatisation bill in parliament. On December 1, a country-wide strike was observed. Earlier on November 29, massive rallies and dharnas were staged in Delhi as well as all the state capitals. On October 30th, 2 lakh insurance sector employees staged a nation-wide strike to oppose opening up of the insurance sector to the plunder of private and foreign capital. Earlier a petition on behalf of the 1.5 crore insurance employees had been placed in Parliament. The ruling class is particularly desperate to get this Bill passed because, firstly it would open up a whole new lucrative sector to the Indian and foreign big finance capital. The present size of the Indian insurance and pension funds market is Rs. 40,000 crores, but research studies have predicted that it has a potential of Rs. 70,000 crores. Secondly, the Bill is supposed to signal to capitalists around the world that the Indian bourgeoisie has now installed a "stable" government at the centre and that it will be speeding up the reforms - a demand that was placed as a precondition for any party to...
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...Privatisation of the Insurance Sector Printer-friendly version Worker's Opposition Gaining Momentum Lakhs of insurance employees have been waging struggle over the past two months against the introduction of the Insurance privatisation bill in parliament. On December 1, a country-wide strike was observed. Earlier on November 29, massive rallies and dharnas were staged in Delhi as well as all the state capitals. On October 30th, 2 lakh insurance sector employees staged a nation-wide strike to oppose opening up of the insurance sector to the plunder of private and foreign capital. Earlier a petition on behalf of the 1.5 crore insurance employees had been placed in Parliament. The ruling class is particularly desperate to get this Bill passed because, firstly it would open up a whole new lucrative sector to the Indian and foreign big finance capital. The present size of the Indian insurance and pension funds market is Rs. 40,000 crores, but research studies have predicted that it has a potential of Rs. 70,000 crores. Secondly, the Bill is supposed to signal to capitalists around the world that the Indian bourgeoisie has now installed a "stable" government at the centre and that it will be speeding up the reforms - a demand that was placed as a precondition for any party to be elected to power in the recent elections. The Bill, if passed, will open up the insurance sector to private capital investment with up to 26 percent ownership by foreign multinationals. It would further...
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