All the headlines from our India Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2011 // Insurance in emerging markets has “experienced strong growth over the past decade and the outlook for the next decade remains promising,” a Swiss Re sigma study concludes.However, it also notes that...
Dec 13 2011 // Even though China gets most of the headlines, there’s been slow, but steady, progress for private insurers in Asia’s other billion plus people country – India. Although its rate of growth has slowed recently,...
Dec 12 2011 // Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.A...
Dec 12 2011 // Indian financial services firm Reliance Capital is in talks with potential partners to sell up to 26 percent in its general insurance business though a deal may be at least six months away, its chief executive told...
Dec 5 2011 // State-run Bank of India said late on Saturday it would buy 51 percent of Indian asset manager Bharti AXA Investment Managers Pvt Ltd from the firm’s two joint venture partners.Bharti AXA Investment Managers is a...
Dec 1 2011 // India’s insurance regulator on Thursday notified guidelines for life insurers to raise capital via initial public offering (IPO) or subsequent public fund raising from the equity markets.The Insurance Regulatory and...
Nov 28 2011 // Reliance Industries has mutually agreed to end negotiations with Bharti Enterprises to buy its stakes in two insurance joint ventures with France’s AXA, the two Indian companies said on Friday.Reliance said the...
Oct 7 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp, has released the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during...
Aug 31 2011 // Asia will add 1.66 million dollar-millionaires by 2015, taking the total number of wealthy to 2.82 million as the world’s fastest-growing major economies of China and India continue to mint millionaires, a report...
Jun 28 2011 // Finance chiefs from the United States and India pledged on Tuesday to continue efforts to open up India’s financial, retail, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors to competition but offered no specific measures to...
May 26 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published a report, which concludes that the Indian non-life insurance sector has “substantial growth potential because market penetration remained low–leaving...
May 3 2011 // Upstairs in a public house in the town of Poole on the English south coast, 18 men are preparing to take on the pirates of the Indian Ocean.Around antique polished wooden tables scattered with laminated charts, handouts...
Apr 22 2011 // World Trade Organization members face a somber Easter Sunday because of a fight over manufacturing trade between the United States and major emerging economies like China, India and Brazil that could finally kill...
Mar 4 2011 // Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is entering the Indian insurance market as a corporate agent for Bajaj Allianz, the companies said.Berkshire made no investment in Bajaj, but will sell policies for...
Dec 7 2010 // Suspected Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi ship carrying nickel ore in the Arabian Sea and appear headed to the lawless East African nation, officials said Monday.The Bangladesh-flagged M.V. Jahan Moni appears to have...
Dec 6 2010 // In its latest monthly assessment of the world’s catastrophes for November Aon Benfield highlights the first winter weather event of the season across Europe with “notable affects.”the report, published by...
Nov 14 2010 // AIM, Quincy MutualA.I.M. Mutual Insurance Cos. and Quincy Mutual Group will join forces to create the Commercial Solutions Underwriting Alliance, a business arrangement designed to meet the commercial lines product needs...
Nov 4 2010 // Liberty Mutual Group announced that it has concluded a partnership with “Videocon Industries Ltd., the flagship company of $5 Billion Videocon Group, with diversified interest in Consumer Electronics, Household...
Sep 21 2010 // China, India and Indonesia are likely to face much higher losses from natural disasters in coming decades as their economies grow faster than their capacity for disaster prevention and relief, a new report has...
Sep 9 2010 // Willis Group Holdings announced today that it will appeal a decision by India’s Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) that it is “not inclined to accept” the license renewal application...