MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

10.06.2011

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

ICICI Prulife Tower 1089, Appasaheb Marathe Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 400025, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2010

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

20.07.2000

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

11-127837

 

 

Capital Investment / Paid-up Capital :

Rs.14281.429 Millions

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U66010MH2000PLC127837

 

 

Legal Form :

A Closely Held Public Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Providing Life Insurance and Pension Services 

 

 

No. of Employees :

6000 (Approximately) 

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Aa (72)

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Large

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 190000000

 

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a Joint Venture between ICICI Bank and Prudential of UK.

 

It is a well established and reputed company having fine track. Financial position of the company appears to be sound. Fundamentals are strong and healthy. Trade relations are reported as fair. Business is active. Payments are reported to be regular and as per commitments.

 

The company can be considered normal for business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

NOTES :

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

 

INFORMATION DECLINED BY

 

Management non co-operative.

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

ICICI Prulife Tower 1089, Appasaheb Marathe Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 400025, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-66621600/ 56621788

Fax No.:

91-22-24376956/ 56622029

E-Mail :

cl.baradhwaj@iciciprulife.com / wecoveryou@iciciprulife.com /

ami.badani@iciciprulife.com / sanaulla.khan@iciciprulife.com

Website :

http://www.iciciprulife.com

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

As on 09.09.2010

 

Name :

Mrs. Chanda Deepak Kochhar

Designation :

Director

Address :

CCI Chambers, Flat No.45, 5th Floor, Dinshaw Vacha Road, Mumbai – 400020, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

11.11.1961

Date of Appointment :

28.05.2002

Other Directorship :

ICICI Bank Limited

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ramkumar Krishnaswamy

Designation :

Director

Address :

101, Phoenix House, 91, Sayani Road, Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 400025, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

08.08.1961

Date of Appointment :

13.10.2008

 

                

Name :

Mr. Kannan Shrinivasa Narayanan

Designation :

Whole Time Director

Address :

Flat No.204, Tower B, Kalpataru Horrizon, S K Ahire Marg, Worli, Mumbai – 400018,  Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

30.06.1965

Date of Appointment :

01.05.2009

 

 

Name :

Mr. Barry Lee Stowe

Designation :

Director

Address :

11/F, Eva Court, No.36, Macdonnell Road, Hong Kong

Date of Birth/Age :

27.11.1957

Date of Appointment :

06.11.2006

Other Directorship :

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited

 

 

Name :

Mr. Adrian Thomas O’Connor

Designation :

Director

Address :

12B, 127 Repulse Bay Road, Hong Kong

Date of Birth/Age :

29.12.1958

Date of Appointment :

23.07.2008

 

 

Name :

Mr. Keki Bomi  Dadiseth

Designation :

Director

Address :

8 A, Mane K Building L D Ruparel Marg, Malabar, Mumbai – 400006, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

20.12.1945

Date of Appointment :

26.04.2006

Other Directorship :

  • Siemens Limited Non-Executive
  • The Indian Hotels Company
  • Indian School of Business

 

 

Name :

Prof. Marti G. Subrahmanyam

Designation :

Director

Address :

70, East Tenth Street, #18-S, New York – 10003, USA

Date of Birth/Age :

23.08.1946

Date of Appointment :

26.07.2007

Other Directorship :

ICICI Bank Limited

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rama Ashoke Bijapurkar

Designation :

Additional Director

Address :

8, C-D Mona Apartments 46 F, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai – 400026, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

12.02.1957

Date of Appointment :

17.01.2008

Email :

rama.mail@bijapurkar.com

Other Directorship :

  • CRISIL Limited Independent
  • Entertainment Networks (India) Limited

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kumar Vinod Chand Dewan Dhall

Designation :

Director

Address :

Dewan Manohar House, B-88, Sector 51, Noida – 201301, Uttar Pradesh

Date of Birth/Age :

20.02.1944

Date of Appointment :

05.03.2009

 

 

Name :

Mr. Vaidyanathan Vembu

Designation :

Director

Address :

Flat No.1602, Tower B, Beaumonde, Prabhadevi – 400025, Mumbai, maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

02.01.1968

Date of Appointment :

01.05.2009

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sandeep Suraj Bakshi

Designation :

Director

Address :

B4, Tanna Residency, Opp. Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai – 400025, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

28.05.1960

Date of Appointment :

01.08.2010

 

 

Name :

Mr. Puneet, Kulbhushan Nanda

Designation :

Whole Time Director

Address :

Flat No.11, Victoria Sarojini Road, Santacruz (West), Mumbai – 400054, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

05.02.1969

Date of Appointment :

01.08.2010

 

 

Name :

Mr. Madhivanan Balakrishnan

Designation :

Director

Address :

1305, 13th Floor, Ashok Tower, Dr. S S Rao Road, Parel, Mumbai – 400022, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

07.06.1969

Date of Appointment :

01.08.2010

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sanaulla Khan Mohammed

Designation :

Director

Address :

201, Rehna Heights, Chapel Lane, Santacruz (West), , Mumbai – 400054, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

13.07.1970

Date of Appointment :

15.12.2008

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Sandeep Batra

Designation :

Company Secretary

Address :

B/105 Silver Beach Apartments Juhu, Mumbai – 400049, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

14.01.1966

Date of Appointment :

23.11.2000

 

 

Name :

Mr. C. L. Baradhwaj

Designation :

Company Secretary

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anita Pai

Designation :

Executive Vice President – Customer Service and Technology

 

 

Name :

Mr. Dr. Avijit Chatterjee

Designation :

Appointed Actuary

 

 

Name :

Mr. Puneet Nanda

Designation :

Executive Vice President – Chief Investment Officer 

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

As on 09.09.2010

 

 

Srinivasan G Iyengar

377

 

Ajay Chowdhary

4500

 

Toshit Kumar

8625

 

H Vinod

3750

 

Hora Rahul

26250

 

Pisupati Chaya

26625

 

Rao Ashish Ravindra

10000

 

Sahay Shuchika

4300

 

Saneja Amit

    10500

 

Sivaram Maganty

7687

 

Varshney Jatin Ramjilal

14250

 

Gopalakrishnan Jayan

1800

 

Gupta Purnajit

4800

 

Iyer Venkatachalam

15000

 

Jain Akash

6000

 

Radhakrishnan Meera

7800

 

Saxena Amey

30625

 

Mohammed Ibrahim

50

 

Vineet Bhatia

1250

 

Yogesh Gupta

2250

 

Ravi Shanker T

1250

 

Hemant Gala

6600

 

Arun Nair

5600

 

Anup Velamuri Rau

6875

 

Chhaya Pisupati

12000

 

Jayan Gopalakrishnan

3600

 

Meera Radhakrishnan

1800

 

Chhaya Pisupati

8000

 

Meera Radhakrishnan

1000

 

Sameer Anil Joshi

7500

 

Anil Agrawal

1800

 

Leena Sachin Shenoy

1000

 

Meera Radhakrishnan

1350

Sameer Anil Joshi

5625

ICICI Bank Limited, Mumbai

1055310900

Runa Saha

4105

Richard Arnold Desouza

9000

Sanjeev Suman

5752

Sunit  Madan

20146

Amish Manikant Banker

33103

Sujeet Pralhad Kothare

14

Ajay Narang

350

Jabeen  Zafar Vasi

27087

Anita Pai

127500

Mukesh Dhawan

65000

Vedika Shrikant Thorat

4500

Nitin  Puri

4,000

Jomy John

11900

Parvathi Viswanath

3000

Sumeet Sahni

15625

Sitesh Prasad

7500

Anshu Morarka

159

Bhat Sudhan Rajaram

10875

V N Srivatsan

21200

Manoj Nambiar

2500

Narendra Vinayak Ganpule

3600

Dipasree Ganguly

7500

Sanjay Radhakrishnan

17250

Shuba Rao Mayya

75000

Jayant  Doegar

17000

Satishwar   Balakrishnan

6550

Richeek  Maitra

6000

Ramandeep Singh Sahni

6000

Sandeep  Batra

77500

Sangramjit Sarangi

30000

Anuj Varma

5400

Srikant Venkata Satya Vatturi

790

Tarun  Chugh

3000

Rishi  Srivastava

15625

Vikash  Khanna

11400

Sachin Padmakar Joglekar

19500

Bhawani Singh Pathania

8625

Vikas Gupta

1800

Pankaj Jain

125187

Sarang Govind Gokhale

21350

Kalpana Bharat Sampat

115000

M  Srinivas

31200

Mohit Shailendra Sharma

14375

Prince Sethi

14500

Ashwini Kiran Pai

11400

Krishna Ved

20250

Siddharth  Kapoor

8625

Nand Kishore Anand

10000

Poonam  Bhardwaj

65000

Rahul Chawla

28700

Niraj Shah

3750

Vinu Jacob Vilayil

50

Shehzad Mahendi Hooda

7550

Jeelani Basha Shiekhakbar

50

Ajaykumar  Patel

19525

Rohit Malik

23750

Sumit  Mohindra

18750

Vivek Lakhotia

6750

Anish Anand Singh

14375

Biplab Ghosh

50

Mohit  Rochlani

4637

V Rajagopalan

1000

Rahul Belwalkar

10000

Santosh S Ranade

11375

Vinod Sharma

2800

Pradeep  Malhotra

4309

Samir Vora

7600

Manish V Shah

12250

Danish Shafakat Bhagat

16700

Pulak Sharma

16562

Dushyant Mishra

20500

Gurmeet Singh Bhatia

8625

Kamlesh Leelaram Manuja

923

Anita Ravindra Rao

49

Sourav Sarkar

25688

Jagdeep Reddy Malla

45000

Shruti Dhupia

130

Indranil Chanda

100

Vaibhav Vasudeo Vaidya

2000

Nikhit  Fernandes

3250

Gayatri Ramaswamy

25155

Samir Malik

3125

Monney Krishan Bhatia

2600

Prashant Sudhakar Hampihallikar

1000

Rajesh Kumar Singhi

2500

Neeraj Chandramohan Vetkar

900

Mukta Anand Karandikar

1100

Roshan Justhin Rodrigues

750

Ajay Kumar Kukreja

1875

Shekhar   Datta

844

Pramod Hari Lele

15000

Gautam Vijh

3125

Ramandeep Singh Sawhney

1500

Varma Meharji D S C

1000

Abhimanyu  Mishra

1500

Mohit Bahuguna

7250

Amit  Banerjee

3000

Rajiv Malhan

2250

Ravindra Kumar B H

900

Sameer Ramesh Gautam

1000

Lourdes Victor Fernandes

3000

Rajat Rana

6100

Rakesh Sikka

2000

Praveen Paladugu

4500

Pankaj Sharma

101875

Sridhar Dayakaran

12500

Charanjit Singh

53625

Ajay Maheshwari

2000

R  Manikandan

2000

Abhishek  Rathi

4206

Aparna Dilip Gangal

2700

Prabhakar Shetty Karkala

1000

Sushant Rajput

6750

Ritesh Vermani

1500

Vikram Kumar

1000

Harpreet Singh

2000

Ananth M Kulkarni

2685

Joyoti   Banerji

3100

Preeti Bhagwandas Sancheti

2000

Vijay Kumar C M

500

Poonam  Matani

2000

Srinivas Chakravarti R

4500

Hemant Manilal Gala

1800

Shailesh Vilas Kelkar

2700

Cabrini  Bagwalla

2000

Aparna Verma

3000

Anupam  Kaul

11625

Dev Veerachamy

3000

Vivek N Iyer

7500

Ambrish  Sinha

2250

Edith Jeberson

2000

Thomas Priyamvada

3000

Arpita Nanoti

1000

Sheetal Shitanshu Vora

7000

Manish  Ghiya

928

Anuradha Hoovina Kamath

6000

Bhavi Dilip Ajmera

500

Ataali Shaikh

1277

Kailash Mittal

1800

Amit Mimani

5

Jasjit Singh Makol

5

Prudential Corporation Holdings Limited, London

370784884

Anita Ravindra Rao

1800

Pradeep  Malhotra

6

Pulak Sharma

1

ICICI Bank Limited, Mumbai

7

 

 

Total

1428142883

 

As on 09.09.2010                            

 

 

Category

 

Percentage

 

 

 

Foreign holdings [Foreign institutional investors, Foreign Companies, Foreign Financial Institutions, Non-resident Indian or Overseas corporate bodies or others]

 

25.96

Other top Fifty Shareholder (Other than Listed above)

 

0.10

Others

 

0.04

Total

 

100.00

 

List of Allottees as on 22.09.2010

 

Names of Allottees

 

No. of Shares

Allotted

Maruti Naik

 

13125

Sanjay Nandwani

 

2000

Anupam Kaul

 

5312

Richeek Maitra

 

4000

Dayakaran Sridhar

 

2500

Srinivas Revanur

 

2250

Jatin Varshney

 

17750

Sameer Kwatra

 

20000

Jayan Gopalakrishnan

 

2700

Srikant V V S

 

9200

Pankaj Sharma

 

10000

Amar Joshi

 

32250

Jai B

 

4050

Leena Shenoy

 

1000

Eapen J C

 

3500

Manu Monga

 

13437

Jitendra Arora

 

10000

Total

 

153074

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Providing Life Insurance and Pension Services 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

No. of Employees :

6000 (Approximately) 

 

 

Bankers :

ICICI Bank Limited

 

 

Facilities:

 

Particulars

Rs. In Millions

31.03.2010

Rs. in Millions

31.03.2009

Security – Wise Classifications 

 

 

Secured

 

 

On mortgage of property

 

 

(aa) In India

28.400

143.763

Loans against policy

87.648

52.283

Total

116.048

196.046

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

-

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Walker Chandiok and Company

Chartered Accountant

Address :

Engineering Centre, 6th Floor, 9 Mathew Road, Opera House, Mumbai – 400004, Maharashtra, India

 

 

Name :

BRS and Company

Chartered Accountant

Address :

KPMG House, Kamala Mills Compound, 448, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower parel, Mumbai – 40013, Maharashtra, India

 

 

Holding Company :

  • Prudential Corporation Holding Limited (U66000MH2009PLC191935)
  • ICICI Bank Limited (L65190GJ1994PLC021012)

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

  • ICICI Securities Limited
  • ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited
  • ICICI Home Finance Company Limited
  • ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited
  • ICICI Trusteeship Services Limited
  • ICICI Securities Primary Dealership Limited
  • ICICI Securities Inc.
  • ICICI Securities Holding Inc.
  • ICICI Investment Management Company Limited
  • ICICI International Limited
  • ICICI Bank UK PLC
  • ICICI Bank Canada
  • ICICI Wealth Management Company Limited
  • ICICI Bank Eurasia Limited Liability Company
  • ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited
  • ICICI Prudential Trust Limited
  • ICICI Property Trust
  • ICICI Eco-net Internet and Technology Fund
  • ICICI Equity Fund
  • ICICI Emerging Sectors Fund
  • ICICI Strategic Investments Fund
  • TCW / ICICI Investment Partners Limited Liability Company
  • TSI Ventures (India) Private Limited
  • ICICI Kinfra Limited
  • ICICI West Bengal Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited
  • Financial Information Network and Operations Limited

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

As on 31.03.2010

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

1500000000

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.15000.000 Millions

 

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

1428142900

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.14281.429 Millions

  

(Of the total share capital, 1,055,162,900 shares (Previous Year: 1,055,162,900) of Rs.10 each are held by the holding company, ICICI Bank Limited and its nominees.)

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

 PARTICULARS

31.03.2010 

31.03.2009 

31.03.2008

 

 

 

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS FUND:

 

 

 

Share Capital

14281.429

14272.573

14011.137

Share Application Money

1.067

2.282

1.104

Employees stock option outstanding

0.897

8.495

19.161

Reserves & Surplus

33588.365

33529.185

23722.895

Fair value change Account – Net

(9.604)

(1.461)

9.819

 

 

 

 

Sub – Total

47862.154

 47811.074

37754.297

 

 

 

 

Borrowings

0.000

0.000 

0.000

 

 

 

 

POLICYHOLDERS FUND

 

 

 

Fair value change Account – Net

2493.446

213.161 

1775.187

Revaluation Reserve – Investment Property

668.879

316.319 

316.319

Policy Liabilities

35893.280

29987.086

23545.894

Provision for linked liability

503761.001

280548.906

244568.182

Sub – Total

542816.605

 311065.472

270205.582

Funds for future appropriations

 

 

 

Linked

10931.566

5590.611

4093.352

Non Linked

1392.600

1582.726

1285.155

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

603002.925

366049.883

313338.386

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment

 

 

 

Shareholders

12850.338

6620.077

2110.191

Policy Holders

44565.701

34164.141

 34493.049

Asset held to cover linked liabilities

514692.566

286139.517

248661.534

Loans

116.048

196.046

37.935

Fixed Assets

2634.004
3312.117

3277.369

Deferred Tax Assets

2955.164
3180.774

2170.774

 

 

 

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

Cash and Bank Balance

3054.023

3558.761

6165.080

Advances and Other assets

2966.016

3615.504

4546.582

Sub – Total  (A)

6020.039

7174.265

10711.662

 

 

 

 

Sundry Creditors

267.067

173.949

205.132

Other Current Liabilities

15449.951

11129.764

15876.741

Provisions

298.835

1197.944

2009.862

 

 

 

 

 Sub – Total (B)

16015.853

 12501.657

18091.735 

Net Current Assets (C) = (A-B)

(9995.814)

(5327.392)

(7380.073)

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous expenditure

0.000

0.000

0.000

Debit Balance in Profit and Loss Account

35184.918

37764.603

29967.607

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

603002.925

 366049.883

313338.386

 

 

PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

31.03.2010 

31.03.2009 

31.03.2008

Amount transfer from Policyholders account (Technical account)

2571.204

334.440

21.168

 

 

 

 

Income from investments

 

 

 

(a) Interest, Dividend and Rent - Gross

223.290

256.924

117.134

(b) Profit on sale/redemption of investments

94.047

120.860

535.320

(c) Loss on sale/redemption of investments

(4.937)

(25.060)

(29.892)

Other Income

0.000

0.000

0.000

Total

2883.604

687.164

643.730

Expenses other than those directly related to the insurance business Bad debts written off

78.309

8.472

11.632

Bad Debts Written Off

0.000

0.000

0.000

Amounts transferred to policyholders account (Technical account)

0.000

9485.688

16063.495

Provisions (other than taxation)

 

 

 

(a) For diminution in value of investments (net)

0.000

0.000

0.000

(b) Provision for doubtful debts

0.000

0.000

0.000

 Total

78.309

9494.160

16075.127

 

 

 

 

(Less) Before Tax

2805.295

(8806.996)

(15431.397)

Provision for Taxation

 

 

 

Differed Tax

(225.610)

1010.000

1480.770

Profit / (Loss) after tax

2579.685

(7796.996)

(13950.627)

 

 

 

 

Appropriation

 

 

 

(a) Balance of the beginning for the year

37764.603

(29967.607)

(16016.980)

(b) Interim dividends paid during the year

0.000

0.000

0.000

(c) Proposed final dividend

0.000

0.000

0.000

(d) Dividend distribution Tax

0.000

0.000

0.000

(c) Transfer to reserve / other income

0.000

0.000

0.000

Profit / (Loss) carried to Balance Sheet

(35184.918)

(37764.603)

(29967.607)

 

 

 

 

Earning Per shares (Rs.)

1.81

(5.50)

(10.28)

 

  


 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Details of Sundry Creditors:

 

Particulars

 

31.03.2010

(Rs. in millions)

31.03.2009

(Rs. in millions)

31.03.2008

(Rs. in millions)

Sundry Creditors

267.067

173.949

205.132

 

 

Background

 

Subject (`the Company’) a joint venture between ICICI Bank Limited and Prudential Corporation Plc was incorporated on July 20, 2000 as a company under the Companies Act, 1956 (`the Act’). The Company is licensed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (`IRDA’) for carrying life insurance business in India.

 

The Company carries on business in the areas of life, pensions and health insurance. This business spans across individual and group products and covers participating, non-participating and unit linked lines of businesses. Riders covering additional benefits are offered under these products. These products are distributed through individual agents, corporate agents, banks, brokers and the company’s proprietary sales force.

 

Fixed Assets:

 

  • Buildings
  • Leasehold improvements
  • Communication networks and servers
  • Computers and peripheral equipments
  • Office Equipment
  • Furniture and Fixtures
  • Motor Vehicles
  • Freehold Land
  • Office Buildings on Freehold Land

 

 

NEW RELEASE:

 

March 14, 2011

 

 

With the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) bringing in reforms and the government laying emphasis on protection in its direct taxes code proposal, how do you summarize the action that the life insurance industry has witnessed in recent years?

 

I see the changes as positives. The regulator has nudged the industry to focus more on protection and even the tax proposals directionally lead us towards protection. We have focused on investments but that strength even the mutual fund industry has. Protection is our strength and only we can provide it. Now the industry will focus more on protection and claims. Till now people didn’t look at the claims side of the business but now with increase in protection, claims will be tracked closely. In fact, online term plans have already become popular. The sale of online term plans is self-driven and not pushed. In times to come, term and health plans will become pull products.

 

Online term plans have been received rather well. But having online term plans also means strict underwriting and more care like medical tests. Will this impact the premiums?

 

The market for term plans is still largely untapped and we believe that its popularity is set to increase. Having said this, as more consumers buy term plans, the risk that an insurer takes will get enhanced significantly, which means greater emphasis on medical tests and underwriting processes. This will eventually lead to increase in the premiums of the protection element of insurance products. Term plans will become marginally expensive but that will not hamper its growth.

 

Irda is also focusing on robust distribution. Costs have been contained. Does this put pressure on capital?

 

In the light of current regulation, we either cut costs or tighten the belt. Agents need to sell more and the focus now needs to be on technology to reduce costs. The current set of regulation will remove the toxicity in distribution. Initially, the focus was on first-year premium, but now renewal premium has become just as attractive. Now regular premiums are also like single premiums since the costs are staggered equally. There is a long-term incentive for agents and they need to look at renewals just as excitedly.

 

The focus has shifted to the online channel. Do you see more use of technology?

 

Absolutely. In fact in two years from now things will be very different. Even now we design products keeping the distribution channel in mind. But increasingly, we are looking to make products online friendly as well. Right now the use of technology is minimal which leaves us huge room to improve and use technology. This will bring down costs and will make products simpler.

 

You said that the focus will now be on protection plans. Does that mean you will no longer focus on investments?

 

If you see real returns, unit-linked insurance plans, with the protection cover they now offer, are attractive products in the long term. Investment will continue to be our focus but protection will be the core. So now you will see protection plans and health plans at the core wrapped around with investment products.

 

In terms of product suite, will we see any kind of polarization? For example, in mature markets insurer A is famous for pension plans and insurer B is famous for child plans.

 

In our opinion, the investment skill and the ability to understand the quantum of insurance protection are two skills that will be a common denominator for all the insurers. However, we believe that the distribution process will get polarized. While there may not be much difference in products, the difference will come in the channel strategy employed. It is likely that an insurer having a multi-channel distribution model will find that there is a distinct product or category focus emerging across distribution channels—agency, brokers and bancassurance—each selling a different suite or category of products.

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                              None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 


 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.44.72

UK Pound

1

Rs.73.47

Euro

1

Rs.65.38

 


 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

5

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

7

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

8

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

9

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

9

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

9

--LEVERAGE

1~10

8

--RESERVES

1~10

9

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

8

--MARGINS

-5~5

-

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

72

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

-

NB

                                       New Business

-

 

 

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