Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Life Insurance Corporation of India

The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the largest life insurance company in India fully owned by the Government of India.

LIC has assets estimated of 8 Trillion Rupees (or about $170 Billion dollars) and has a network of around 1.2 million of its agents for soliciting life insurance business from the public.

LIC has more than 2048 branches and offices in various cities and towns of India.

LIC has invited applications for recruitment of 5578 Apprentice Development Officers for its 8 Zonal and various Divisional Offices/branches across India.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Max New York Life Insurance

Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between Max India Limited, which is a one of India's leading multi-business corporate, and New York Life International, which is a Fortune 100 company & global expert in life insurance. Max New York Life Insurance started its commercial operations in India in 2001. It is the first life insurance company in India to be awarded the IS0 9001:2000 certification. The company has around 133 offices all over the country.

Max New York Life offers a variety of flexible products covering both life and health insurance including 8 riders that can be customized to over 800 combinations which enable the customers to choose the policy that suits their needs. Max New York Life also offers 6 products and 7 riders in group insurance business. The company has a plan for every need, designed as to meet your long term financial goals & aspirations. They help you fulfilling your dreams & commitments. The list of few plans provided by Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited is given below:

ING Vysya Life Insurance

Established in India in September 2001, ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between Vysya Bank, which is one of the largest private sector banks in India, and ING Insurance Co., which is the world's second largest life insurance company. This private life insurance company has around 140 branches all over India, with head office in Bangalore. ING Vysya Life Insurance Co. has around 3000 employees with over 21,000 sales insurance agents and brokers. ING Vysya Life presently has around 4.5 lakh customers, and is making a total income of Rs. 400 crore.

ING Vysya Life Insurance gives you an opportunity to fulfill your responsibilities towards your family. The ING Vysya Life protection plans provide financial security to your family in your absence. This company also provides special policies, such as, Children's Plans; Retirement Plans; Investment Plans and Savings Plans, which help you to secure your future financially. It also provides Life Insurance, Medical Insurance, General Insurance, Long-Term Care Insurance, Group Insurance, Company Insurance and Financial Services Insurance Products.

The mutual funds of ING Vysya Insurance are available with all the company branches, insurance agents and brokers. ING Vysya Life Insurance Ltd. Also offers online premium payment facility. For premium cheque payments, drop boxes are also available at all the branches. Given here is a comprehensive list of various insurance policies & saving plans offered by ING Vysya Insurance Company:

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company is a joint venture between ICICI Bank, which is one of India's foremost financial services companies, and Prudential plc, which is a leading international financial services group headquartered in the United Kingdom. ICICI Prudential began the operations in December 2000. Today, this company has over 2100 branches, which include 1,116 micro-offices, over 290,000 advisors and 18 banc assurance partners.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company is the first life insurer in India that received a National Insurer Financial Strength rating of AAA (Ind) from Fitch ratings. ICICI Prudential has been voted as India's Most Trusted Private Life Insurer for three consecutive years. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company has various insurance plans that have been designed for different individuals, as every individual has different insurance needs. Given below is a list of plans provided by ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company:

HDFC Standard Life Insurance

Established on 14th August 2000, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is a joint venture between Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC Limited) - India's leading housing finance institution, and a Group Company of the Standard Life Plc, UK. The Company is one of leading private insurance companies, offering a range of individual and group insurance solutions, in India. Being a joint venture of top financial services groups, HDFC Standard Life has adequate financial expertise to manage long-term investments safely and resourcefully.

HDFC Standard Life Insurance offers a range of individual and group solutions, which can be easily personalized to specific needs. Its group solutions have been planned to offer complete flexibility, together with a low charging structure. As of 31 December, 2008, the Company's new business premium income stood at Rs. 1,839.70 Crores; it has covered over 812,811 lives so far. Given below is a comprehensive list of policies and products on offer by HDFC Standard Life Insurance:

Birla Sun Life Insurance

Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is a joint venture between Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational corporation, and Sun Life Financial Inc, a leading global insurance company. Birla Sun Life Insurance is distinguished as the first company in the sector of financial solutions to begin Business Continuity Plan. This insurance company has pioneered the unique Unit Linked Life Insurance Solutions in India. Within 4 years of its launch, BSLI became one of the leading players in the industry of Private Life Insurance Scheme.

Birla Sun Life Insurance believes in passion, integrity, speed, commitment and seamlessness. The mission of the company is to help people with risk management. It also helps in managing the financial situation of firms as well as individuals. Here is given a comprehensive list of policies and products offered by Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

Insurance Companies in India

In India, Insurance is a national matter, in which life and general insurance is yet a booming sector with huge possibilities for different global companies, as life insurance premiums account to 2.5% and general insurance premiums account to 0.65% of India's GDP. The Indian Insurance sector has gone through several phases and changes, especially after 1999, when the Govt. of India opened up the insurance sector for private companies to solicit insurance, allowing FDI up to 26%. Since then, the Insurance sector in India is considered as a flourishing market amongst global insurance companies. However, the largest life insurance company in India is still owned by the government.

The history of Insurance in India dates back to 1818, when Oriental Life Insurance Company was established by Europeans in Kolkata to cater to their requirements. Nevertheless, there was discrimination among the life of foreigners and Indians, as higher premiums were charged from the latter. In 1870, Indians took a sigh of relief when Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society, the first Indian insurance company covered Indian lives at normal rates. Onset of the 20th century brought a drastic change in the Insurance sector.

In 1912, the Govt. of India passed two acts - the Life Insurance Companies Act, and the Provident Fund Act - to regulate the insurance business. National Insurance Company Ltd, founded in 1906, is the oldest existing insurance company in India. Earlier, the Insurance sector had only two state insurers - Life Insurers i.e. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), and General Insurers i.e. General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC). In December 2000, these subsidiaries were de-linked from parent company and were declared independent insurance companies: Oriental Insurance Company Limited, New India Assurance Company Limited, National Insurance Company Limited and United India Insurance Company Limited.

LIC

The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the largest life insurance company in India and also the country's largest investor.; it is fully owned by the Government of India. It also funds close to 24.6% of the Indian Government's expenses. It was founded in 1956.

Headquartered in Mumbai, which is considered the financial capital of India, the Life Insurance Corporation of India currently has 8 zonal Offices and 101 divisional offices located in different parts of India, at least 2048 branches located in different cities and towns of India along with satellite Offices attached to about some 50 Branches, and has a network of around one million and 200 thousand agents for soliciting life insurance business from the public

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Shaadi

Shaadi one of India's best known brands and the world's largest matrimonial service was founded with a simple objective - to help people find happiness. The company pioneered online matrimonials in 1996 and continues to lead the exciting matrimony category after more than a decade. By redefining the way people meet for marriage, Shaadi has created a world-renowned service that has touched over 20 million people.

American Beauty

"American Beauty" is tour de force cinema. Sam Mendes' brilliant debut feature depicts a web of characters who yearn for their own 'American Dream' - yet, in the end, only one character truly attains it.

Having seen "Happiness" only recently, I could not help but draw comparisons: both films centre around a microcosm of society in which the people, in their own unique way, all strive to be successful or simply 'happy'. But here the similarities end: the characters in "Happiness" undergo a self-realisation process through which they become increasingly aware of their meaningless existence, and go on to wallow in their own depravity. "Happiness" shows no signs of redemption; whereas in "American Beauty" the audience is offered a sense of hope, of salvation, though the characters must endure a similar fate, or more accurately, they must endure the way of life in which they are trapped.

The pivotal character upon which this theme centres, is the father Lester, played impeccably by Kevin Spacey. He is presented to us as a bit of a loser who plays the subjugated figure in the home and at work. He appears resigned to an unhappy life in which he is treated badly by his wife and daughter and his boss at work. Seemingly beyond redemption, Lester transforms from being a loser.

Mendes portrays this transformation admirably well: he shows Lester on his 'path to enlightenment' pushed up against a grim background of suburbanite existence. These early scenes are well balanced, forming a steady rhythm of TV commercial-like vignettes which prove very comical, if at times unsettling. As Lester reflects in the film: "My life is like a commercial". And how this rings true: like in "Happiness", all the characters hide underneath this veneer of normality and respectability, yet they are all revealed to be nothing but the opposite: depressed, depraved and desperate.

Lester's wife, played by Annette Benning, is the most success-driven character in the story which renders her the most hopeless in the film's tone of moral conviction. "In order to be successful in life one must project the appearance of success" is the maxim she adopts from the 'king' of real estate, Buddy King. It is a phrase which resonates throughout the film: for Benning's pawn, life is all about keeping-up appearances. This is where Lester differs from her: his emancipation is enabled by him discarding the constraints of 'normal life' and following what his heart desires.

Lester is the catalyst in this narrative in which the ancillary characters either follow suit (as does his daughter and Ricky) or pay the price (as does his wife and the Colonel). The irony inherent in this film, and it grows with resonance as the film draws to a conclusion, is that the only character who truly becomes free must sacrifice everything in order to achieve it. Yet it is through his sacrifice that he is able to afford the surviving characters a glimpse of hope in life.

This film left me gasping for air: its hyper-realism conveys, at the same time, a portrait of the suburban comedy, a jolting-shock of realisation, and a cathartic sense of hope. Mendes depicts a certain people who, to varying degrees, all strive for a certain 'American Dream', yet so few actually attain it. Though whilst one may have difficulty with tagging this film with the 'feel good' label, the beauty of "American Beauty" is that it sits half-way between a desperate cry for help and a reassuring sense of happiness and fulfilment and that is cinema at its best.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

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