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HDFC Life  has entered into a  bancassurance  (the selling of life assurance and other insurance products and services by banking institutions) tie-up with Catholic Syrian Bank to distribute its individual life insurance products to the private lender’s customers. HDFC Life will offer its leading range of individual life insurance, health and pension products to the Catholic Syrian Bank’s  1.5 million  customer base across all its branches over a period of time. Sandip Ginodia , Director   A LTIUS INVESTECH PVT LTD | ABHISHEK SECURITIES We deal in over 60 unlisted companies with 15 years of experience . For latest prices visit :  www.abhisheksecurities.com/unlisted.htm  / call : 09830271248 . Email :  ginodiasandip1@gmail.com

While several private equity-backed companies have sold shares to the public this year, several others that were expected to have deferred or abandoned their plans, denying exits to their private equity, or PE, investors. Warburg Pincus-backed ACB (India) Ltd; TPG and Actis-backed AGS Transact Technologies Ltd; Tano Capital-backed logistics firm Shree Shubham Logistics Ltd; Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd; Blackstone-backed Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd; and CX Partners-backed Matrix Cellular (International) Services Ltd have failed to access the primary market for share sale even after obtaining clearances from stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) as far back as six months in some cases. This contrasts with the decent run some PE firms have had this year in terms of partial or complete exits through initial public offerings (IPOs) of portfolio companies. There have been about 10 IPOs this calendar year, which collectively raised  Rs. 6,743 crore, according to ...

  The primary market is slowly becoming more discerning about who it lets in, with investors not hesitating to turn their backs on companies they think don’t make the cut. Since 2011-12, of the 132 IPO applications approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), 67 lapsed. In the three months from April to June this year, of the 13 companies that SEBI cleared to launch their IPOs, seven didn’t come to the market. This is much higher than in the whole of FY15, when four out of 16 IPOs failed to make it. A merchant banker, who did not wish to be quoted, said there is more “investor pushback now because they disagree about a company’s valuations or business fundamentals”. In some cases, the company fails to enthuse institutional investors during the roadshows and publicity programmes to attract investors. If institutions don’t show adequate interest, the IPO is mothballed before retail investors even hear about it. In other cases, the timing has gone w...

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...

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 ...