Insurance - general
RBI prescribes tighter norms for core investment companies’ entry into insurance business
02 Apr 2013
Health insurance: when mediclaim may not be enough
21 Mar 2013
Standard mediclaim policies may look good enough to many people; but they won’t go far in emergencies where long or expensive treatment is needed. Buying a top-up plan is a good way to meet such exigencies, suggests Arun Balakrishnan, CEO, BerkshireInsurance.com
T S Vijayan is new IRDA chief
21 Feb 2013
Exide set to take full control of ING Vysya
24 Jan 2013
Vehicle battery maker Exide Industries, the largest stakeholder in ING Vysya Life Insurance with 50 per cent is taking full control of the insurer for about Rs550 crore
ING exits ING Vysya Life Insurance
23 Jan 2013
Narayana Hrudayalaya proposes health cover at Rs20 per month
19 Jan 2013
Dr Devi Shetty has proposed a unique health insurance cover to over 900 million mobile phone subscribers in the country at a paltry Rs20 per month
Canada's Sun Life and Malaysia’s Khazanah to buy Aviva’s Malaysian insurance JV for $594 mn
17 Jan 2013
No service tax on Bima Yojana insurance schemes
26 Dec 2012
British insurer Aviva sells US unit for £1.1 bn
21 Dec 2012
Canada’s Sun Life Financial to sell some US businesses to Delaware Life Holdings for $1.35 bn
18 Dec 2012
AIG to raise around $6.5-bn via stake sale in AIA Group Ltd
17 Dec 2012
American International Group Inc may raise as much as $6.5 billion from the sale of its remaining stake in AIA Group Ltd in Asia's second-largest block sale ever, exiting a nearly century old business.
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