Anand Tandon, Independent Analyst, says insurance is a long-term business which continues to accumulate capital and therefore the ability to generate money out of it. Tandon considers it to be one of the core areas for growth and investments on a very long-term basis. Power generation companies with new facilities are poised for growth, unlike … Read more
Shares of two PSU insurance companies – General Insurance Corporation of India and New India Assurance – rallied 14% each on Thursday to fresh peaks amid reports that the government may infuse capital into three state-owned insurers. Shares of General Insurance Corporation of India jumped 13.9% to a fresh 52-week high of Rs 466 while … Read more
SBI Life’s June quarter results cheered investors and sent the stock soaring 10 per cent in Friday’s trade. Analysts said the numbers were stellar on all counts be it growth or margins. bucked the trend of slowdown seen at peers in terms of growth in annual premium equivalent (APE) and retail protection APE. Among key … Read more
Mumbai: As the government and bankers gear up for the mega initial public offering of state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India, a niggling worry for them could be the lower appetite for insurance companies among investors of late. Shares of the seven listed insurance companies have underperformed the market in the past three to six … Read more