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HDFC  Life has signed a corporate agency agreement with Indiabulls Housing Finance, leading private housing finance company, to distribute individual insurance products. Under this new tie up, Indiabulls Housing will distribute HDFC Life's individual life, health and pension products to its customers across India, the private insurer said today in a release issued here.

Tech czar   Azim Premji   is in talks to buy under 5% stake in   HDFC Life   for a little over $100 million, or Rs 600 crore. Premji Invest, the investment arm of the Wipro boss, is discussing acquisition of shares from HDFC in a secondary transaction, people directly familiar with the matter said.   India's second largest private life insurance company is a joint venture with UK's Standard Life Plc, which holds the maximum permissible 26% stake. HDFC plans to divest a small part of its 72.37% stake in the life insurer as part of its regular fund raising plans, sources cited earlier added.   Premji is buying into the potential high growth story of life insurers in a market with abysmally low penetration. India's life insurance penetration is estimated at 3.1% and that of insurance products in general at 3.9%. Notwithstanding short-term blips over regulatory revamp, the industry asset under management is expected rise at over 20% annually.   An emaile...

B harti Infratel, the telecommunications tower arm of top Indian mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel  , is likely to launch on December 10 its up to USD900 million initial public offering, three sources with direct knowledge said. The share sale could raise USD800 million to USD900 million, the sources said. Bharti Infratel and four private equity investors are selling shares in the offer. A Bharti spokesman declined to comment. Bharti Infratel expects to get a go ahead from the capital markets regulator as early as Friday, the sources said. All three sources declined to be named as the information is not public yet. Bharti Infratel expects a go-ahead from the capital markets regulator as early as Friday, the sources said, adding the IPO would open for cornerstone investors on December 10 and for the public a day later. Bharti Infratel will sell new shares in the IPO, which will be a key test for overseas investors' appetite in a market that has risen nearly...

DIVIDEND PROJECTION : Private life insurance company HDFC Standard Life Insurance may declare a dividend soon, according to an investor presentation by Standard Life, the UK-based joint venture partner of the company. "Company can now declare dividend," said the UK arm in the presentation recently made to its investors. The presentation mentioned that HDFC Life has established market out-performance consistently over the past 2 years. It added that the Indian life insurance industry in poised for long term growth and HDFC Life is best positioned to take advantage of the market opportunity. According to the presentation, the number of policies grew by 26% in first half of financial year 2013 versus first half of financial year 2012. "Policy term enhanced to 13.2 years in H113 vs. 11.5 years in H112," it further noted. IPO Unlikely for HDFC Life  : With the cabinet clearing the proposal of 49% foreign direct investment, the next logical step should ...