...Management 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...
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...impacting peoples’ life and company’s profitability. For many businesses a small deviation from normal weather patterns can adversely affect their financial performance. Recent events around the world highlight the increasing volatility of the weather and how they can impair the economy. Although the majority of businesses are exposed to weather risks, many are still failing to adequately identify...
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...A REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT AT CORPORATIVE INSURANCE COMPANY UNIVERSITY OF ELDORET SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANGEMENT SCIENCE PRESENTED BY KENNEDY OCHIENG` OBIERO REG. NO: BBU/008/2011 September, 2014 CIC Insurance Group Acknowledgement This attachment was possible thanks to the cooperation and support of a number of people, who have enabled me gain much more than what the scholastic or industrial aspects of the program could have given. I am grateful to them all, and would like to express my appreciation to the following people: Mr. Joel Ochieng`, my Industrial Attachment supervisor in CIC, for sharing enthusiastically with me his experiences in insurance. I am sincerely indebted to him for supporting and assisting me thus contributing to the success of this industrial attachment. ................., the school supervisor from the University of Eldoret, who has helped in coordinating with the administration stuffs and provide valuable assistance in my logbook and report writing. I wish to thank the Almighty God for seeing me through all circumstances during the course of my study. Let his holy name be glorified. More thanks go to my group mates for their constructive criticism that enriched my way of thinking. Table of content Summary of the report Life insurance is an important aspect of the social-economic development of the society. It helps to safeguard the future while also ensure some savings that can be used in a later date. Despite...
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...8160 Research Paper Economics Insurance Sector in India: Challenges and Opportunities Dr. NARESH RAMDAS MADHAVI ABSTRACT Associate Professor and Head Department of Economics Mahatma Phule A. S. C. College, Panvel, Dist. - Raigad Insurance sector in India is one of the growing sectors of the economy. India’s growing consumer class, rising insurance awareness, increasing domestic savings and investments are among the most critical factors that have positively driven the market penetration of the insurance product among its consumer segments. Both the life and non-life insurance in India, which were nationalized in the 1950s and 1960s respectively, which were liberalized in 1990s. Since the formation of IRDA and the opening of the insurance sector to private players in 2000, the Indian insurance sector has witnessed rapid growth. The opening up of the insurance sector has led to rapid growth of the sector. The total premium of the insurance industry has increased at a CAGR of 24.6 percent to reach INR 2,523.9 billion in 2009 KEYWORDS : Life Insurance, LIC, IRDA, Private Insurance Companies Introduction: The economic reforms initiated in the early 90s paved the way for the growth and opening up of the financial sector, which led to a sustained period of economic growth. The insurance industry was opened up for private players in 2000, and has seen tremendous growth over the past decade with the entry of global insurance majors. India is fast emerging as one of...
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...FDI In Insurance INTRODUCTION With the deregulation of insurance industry in India since 1999, private players have got an opportunity to enter in an insurance markets. Prior to its deregulation, the life insurance business was dominated by the public sector company is life insurance Corporation of India. While liberalization of insurance sector, as many as twelve new private life insurance companies were entered with the help of foreign equity up to 26 per cent in the life insurance business apart from the HDFC standard life, which has stand foreign equity only 18.6% in the beginning of insurance business, in the present time there are entire 22 private life insurance companies operating business in India, their in we have selected five private life insurance companies, as like ICICI prudential life insurance (2000), HDFC standard life (2000), Aviva life (2002), SBI life insurance (2001), TATA life insurance (2001). They are entire companies is playing a vital role in life insurance business with motive for exist and prospective customers to provide better facilities in lives saving scheme, future security, investment plan, funds investment etc. Consequently, the public-sector company has been face towards countering the challenges posed by the entered new players in the same business. The private players have been striving to build confidence in customers and get a foothold in the markets. In competitive markets, life insurance companies come out...
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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 role of Financial Market and Institution in the Economic Development of Bangladesh Financial market Financial market is created to satisfy particular preferences of market participants.Financial markets transfer funds from those who have excess funs to those who needfunds. That is they facilitate the transfer of funds from surplus unit to deficit unit .Because funding needs vary among deficit units, various financial markets have beenestablished. The primary market allows for the issuance of new securities, while thesecondary market allows for the sale of short term securities, while capital marketsfacilitate the sale of long term securities.The main participants of financial market can be classified as households, businesses andgovernment agencies. Those participants who provide funds to the financial markets arecalled surplus unit . Households are the main type of surplus unit. Participants who usefinancial markets to obtain the funds are called the deficit unit . Money market: Money market an integral part of the financial market of a country. It provides a mediumfor the redistribution of short term loan able funds among financial institutions, which perform this function by selling deposits of various types, certificate of deposits anddiscounting of bills, treasury bills etc. The participants in the money market are: thecentral bank, commercial banks, the government, finance companies, contractual savinginstitutions like the pension funds, insurance companies...
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...Investment in Life Insurance Companies * Kishor Kumar Meena * Management, Jaipur National University, Jaipur A B S T R A C T The Insurance sector reforms have open in the door for private play-ers, private insurance companies in the beginning of life insurance bus-iness with public sector company (LIC). Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has allowed in private life insurance companies in India, under an act of IRDA with a limit of foreign equity of 26%.The life insurance sector is playing a pivo-tal role in both Indian and Global markets.Those factor we have taken for the analysis of private life insurance companies performance are premium growth, market share of the companies, portfolio Invest-ment, equity share capital etc. It is use for a measure of positive or negative impact of FDI investment in Indian private life insurance co-mpanies. It has investigated for a sample of five selected private life insurance companies and one pub-lic company for the purpose to co-mparison with selected companies it is using a panel data for analysis in between the period of 2002-10. Different key variable is use to an-alysis yearly premium income, infr-astructure development, employee facilities, business expansion etc. it was examined to identify cause for any significant impact on the life insurance sector. The study has made use of secondary data from different authenticated source to draw a meaningful conclusion. August , 2011 INTRODUCTION With the deregulation of insurance industry...
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...rRole of an insurance agent / broker Insurance agents and brokers play an important role in marketing life insurance policies. They are the face of the insurance company.Most of the insurance policies world over are sold by insurance agents and brokers. From the insurance company point of they are the marketing and selling agents for their insurance plans. The following are the basic function they should perform. -Provide all the necessary application forms. -Submit application forms to the company. -Arrange for all the medical tests and related formalities. -Provide reminders premiums payments and return receipts. -Should help you make necesary changes in address ,nomination etc. -Help in the process of assignment -Assist you for any loan applications and related formalities -Should help you revive lapsed policies -Assist in claiming death benefits, if required ____----- ROLE OF AN INSURANCE AGENT The role of an insurance agent is to supply a comprehensive policy which will provide adequate protection in the event of a loss on your new home. It should offer coverage for your dwelling, personal property, loss of use, and liability. The amount of insurance should be equal to the replacement value of the dwelling. A bank or mortgage company cannot require insurance in excess of the dwelling replacement cost. The insurance agent can help you to calculate the replacement value of your new home. Although provisions of the basic homeowner contract are...
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...Measured Contribution of Insurance to Growth Given the multiple potential benefits ofa vibrant insurance sector, how much ofa contribution does insurance make inpractice? While still sparse, the researchpoints to several relatively robust inferences: 1: Insurance Contributes Positively toEconomic Growth. The deepening of insurance markets makesa positive contribution to economic growth.While life insurance is causally linked togrowth only in higher income economies,nonlife insurance makes a positivecontribution in both developing and higherincome economies. Some research suggeststhat the positive contribution of lifeinsurance to growth is primarily through thechannel of financial intermediation and longterm investments. However, it is importantto note that these studies do not addressthe important contributions to individualand social welfare from risk management. 2: Strong Complementarity betweenInsurance and Banking. Insurance and banking system deepeningappear to play complementary roles in thegrowth process. Although insurance andbanking separately each make positivecontributions to growth, their individualcontributions are greater when both arepresent. There is also some evidencethat the development of insurancemarkets contributes to the health ofsecurities markets. As suggested above, there are manyreasons why this complementaryrelationship might hold, including thelikelihood that the presence of property casualty insurance avoids inefficiently highlevels of bankruptcy...
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...Role of Service Insurance Agents In: Business and Management Role of Service Insurance Agents rRole of an insurance agent / broker Insurance agents and brokers play an important role in marketing life insurance policies. They are the face of the insurance company.Most of the insurance policies world over are sold by insurance agents and brokers. From the insurance company point of they are the marketing and selling agents for their insurance plans. The following are the basic function they should perform. -Provide all the necessary application forms. -Submit application forms to the company. -Arrange for all the medical tests and related formalities. -Provide reminders premiums payments and return receipts. -Should help you make necesary changes in address ,nomination etc. -Help in the process of assignment -Assist you for any loan applications and related formalities -Should help you revive lapsed policies -Assist in claiming death benefits, if required ____----- ROLE OF AN INSURANCE AGENT The role of an insurance agent is to supply a comprehensive policy which will provide adequate protection in the event of a loss on your new home. It should offer coverage for your dwelling, personal property, loss of use, and liability. The amount of insurance should be equal to the replacement value of the dwelling. A bank or mortgage company cannot require insurance in excess of the dwelling replacement cost. The insurance agent can help you to calculate...
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...The Insurance Market in Bangladesh now consists of two state-owned corporations, forty three and seventeen private sector general & life insurance companies respectively, a total of 62 insurance companies. Thus the insurance sector in Bangladesh has grown up substantially and deepened remarkably with number of companies in both life and general segments. With the expansion of size of the insurance market, the volume of assets of the industry has also increased substantially. PROFILE OF SADHARAN BIMA CORPORATION Sadharan Bima Corporation is only state-owned General Insurance Corporation operating under the direct control and supervision of the Ministry of Finance, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Following characteristics of SBC proves its financial soundness :- Government owned enterprise - Financial Soundness due to huge assets owned by SBC - Only re-insurer in Bangladesh - Wide net-work of offices - Public trust - Huge trained & skilled manpower - Large investable fund - Huge Real Estate Assets in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Bogra & Sylhet. SBC TOWER – the only multistoried car parking building in the heart of the capital city of Bangladesh SBC is the sponsor shareholder of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, Industrial Development and Leasing Company, National Tea Company Limited, National Housing Finance and Investment Ltd, Aramit Ltd, Central Depository BD Ltd.etc. The main pillar of the SBC is insurance as well as reinsurance...
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...------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 2 FORMATION AND GROWTH OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN INDIA * INTRODUCTION * NATURE AND CHARACTER OF INSURANCE * NEED FOR INSURANCE * FUNCTIONS OF INSURANCE * HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF INSURANCE * TYPES OF INSURANCE * HISTORY OF INSURANCE IN INDIA * Formation of Insurance Industry in India * Nationalization of Insurance Business in India * Privatization of Insurance Industry * LEGISLATIONS REGULATING THE INSURANCE SECTOR IN INDIA ------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 2 FORMATION AND GROWTH OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN INDIA INTRODUCTION Insurance is a practice by which a company provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment. Insurance is a social device, to reduce or eliminate risk of life and property. Under the plan of insurance, a large number of people associate themselves by sharing risk, attached to individual. The risks, which can be insured against include fire, the peril of sea, death, incident, & burglary. The aim of insurance is to protect the owner from a variety of risks which he anticipates. Insurance is actually a contract between two parties. A contract of insurance is a contract where one person undertakes to pay another person, a sum of money or its equivalent on the happening of a specified event. And there is an agreed consideration for such undertaking. The person who seeks this protection...
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...Appendices Questionnaire Q1 A STUDY ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ENDOWMENT POLICY OF LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA AT PERAMBALUR DISTRICT QUESTIONNAIRE I. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE 1. Name (Option) 2. Age : : Below 20 51 – 60 3. Sex 4. Level of Education : : Male 21 to 30 31 to 40 41 to 50 61 and above Female Graduate Professional Below School level Post Graduate 5. Marital status 6. Monthly Income : : Married Unmarried Rs.5001-10000 Rs.15001-20000 Below Rs.5000 Rs.10001-15000 Rs.20001 & above 7. Type of Family 8. Occupational status : : Joint Government Student Nuclear Private Housewife Business Farmers II. FACTORS INFLUENCING POLICY HOLDERS 1. Reasons for preference of LIC? Reliability Financially sound Customer oriented Well managed Other facilities New schemes cum attractive bonus Savings 2. Level of awareness of the various types of Endowment plans in LIC? Very High High Moderate Low Very Low Q2 3. The source of buying Endowment Policy? Agent Development officer Direct 4. Number of Endowment Polices taken so far? One Two Three More than Three 5. Periodicity for payment of Premium? Monthly Quarterly Half Yearly Yearly 6. S. No. Which type of Endowment policy you have chosen? Specify the year/period? Sum Annual Assured/Period Premium Mode of pay Monthly/Quarterly/ Half-yearly/Annually Endowment plans New Janaraksha Jeevan Anand Endowment with profits Marriage Endowment / Education Annuity with...
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...arrangement through which surplus units transfer their fund to deficit units. At present the financial system in Bangladesh is mainly composed of two types of institutions like banks and non-bank financial institution (NBFIs). The formal financial sector in Bangladesh includes: (a) Bangladesh Bank as the central bank, (b) 48 commercial banks, including 4 Government owned commercial banks, 30 domestic private banks (PCBs) (of which 6 banks are operating under Islamic Shariah), 9 foreign banks (FCBs) (of which 1 bank is operating as Islamic bank); and 5 government-owned specialized banks (DFIs); (c) 28 non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) – licensed by the Bangladesh Bank); (d) 2 large government- owned insurance companies (life and general) and 60 private owned (17 life and 43 general) insurance companies; (e) 2 stock exchanges and, (f) some co-operative banks. Besides, a good number of semi-formal micro finance institutions (MFIs) also are operating in Bangladesh. Structure of Financial System: The main constituents of financial system are : i) Financial Institutions ii) Financial Instruments, and iii) Financial Markets. Financial Institutions The modern name of Financial Institution is Financial Intermediary (FI), because it mediates or stand between ultimate borrowers and ultimate lenders and helps transfer funds from one to another. The Financial system helps production, capital-accumulation and growth by i) encouraging savings and ii) allocating them among the alternative...
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