The gross direct premium income (GDPI) rose 10.4 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 6,721 crore from Rs 6,086 crore
ICICI Lombard General Insurance on Friday reported a 20 per cent increase in net profit to Rs 694 crore for the second quarter ended September 2024. The insurer had earned a net profit of Rs 577 crore in the year-ago period. Its total income in the quarter rose to Rs 5,850 crore from Rs 5,049 crore in the year-ago period, ICICI Lombard said in a regulatory filing. The company's written gross premium also rose to Rs 6,948 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal compared to Rs 6,272 crore a year ago. Its net premium earned rose to Rs 4,835 crore against Rs 4,240 crore in the same quarter a year ago, it said. The total expenditure of the company during the period under review increased to Rs 5,186 crore from Rs 4,452 crore in the corresponding period a year ago. The board also declared an interim dividend of Rs 5.5 per equity share or 55 per cent of the value of Rs 10 each for the first half of the current fiscal. ICICI Lombard's solvency ratio was 265 per cent at the end of Sep
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ICICI Lombard General Insurance on Thursday said it is focusing on product innovation to increase its retail share in the health insurance segment. The private insurer reported a retail health insurance market share of 2.9 per cent, while its group insurance share stood at 11.4 per cent. "We are working on increasing our retail share, and in this endeavour, we are constantly innovating our products. Our new offering, the Elevate Health policy, which includes several industry-first features and uses AI for product advice, is expected to drive our retail sales," ICICI Lombard VP (Health Agency) Amrish Sawe said. He also noted that the current retail share of the health insurance industry is 39 per cent, but by 2030-31, this mix is expected to rise to 46 per cent. However, Sawe did not disclose the retail share of premiums within the company's health portfolio. In FY'24, the gross written premium for the health industry was Rs 1,07,800 crore, and this is projected to nearly triple to
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Sunil Bharti Mittal-promoted Bharti Enterprises on Thursday offloaded shares of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company for Rs 663 crore through open market transactions. Axis Mutual Fund (MF), Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, Invesco MF, Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore, Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs Singapore and Blackstone Aqua Master Sub-Fund acquired shares of Mumbai-based general insurer. Bharti Enterprises Ltd sold 38.50 lakh shares, amounting to a 0.8 per cent stake in ICICI Lombard through nine separate block deals on the BSE. The shares were sold at an average price of Rs 1,722.5 apiece, taking the deal size to Rs 663.16 crore. After the stake sale, the shareholding of Bharti Enterprises declined to 1.63 per cent from 2.43 per cent. ICICI Bank purchased 21 lakh shares, representing a 0.4 per cent stake in its subsidiary ICICI Lombard, for 361.72 crore. After the stake purchase, ICICI Bank's stakeholding in the ICICI Lombard increased to 51.7 per cent from 51.27 per cent. Share
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Scale benefits, a favorable product mix, and improvements in efficiencies across channels, analysts said, should help ICICI Lombard General Insurance improve its financials going ahead
Largest private sector general insurer ICICI Lombard on Wednesday reported an 18.9 per cent increase in its March quarter net profit at Rs 520 crore. The city-based company had reported a post-tax net profit of Rs 437 crore in the year-ago period. For the fiscal year 2023-24, the company reported an 11 per cent increase in the profit after tax at Rs 1,919 crore, up from Rs 1,729 crore in the year-ago period. The Gross Direct Premium Income grew 22 per cent to Rs 6,073 crore for the reporting quarter, up from Rs 4,977 crore in the year-ago period, it said, adding that it was higher than the 9.5 per cent. The solvency ratio was 2.62 times on March 31, 2024, as against 2.57 times on December 31, 2023, and 2.51 times a year ago.
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Till 11:54 AM; a combined 8.77 million equity shares representing 1.8 per cent of total equity of ICICI Lombard changed hands on the NSE and BSE, data shows.
Non-life insurers' premium is expected to report decent growth
Ritesh Kumar of HDFC Ergo said, "At the core, health insurance needs to be affordable. It's a complex problem as we are a regulated industry but the provider (health service) is not regulated."
The underwriting loss narrowed to Rs 146 crore, down from Rs 152.3 crore in Q2FY23
General insurer says it will file a response to the notice based on advice from its tax advisors
He will take over from Bhargav Dasgupta, who will be officiating his duties until the close of business hours on 30 November 2023