Indian Insurance Industry News & Updates
Lapsed life insurance explained: What happens and how to restore your cover
Board of Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company approves NCD issuance of upto Rs 250 cr
The board of Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company at its meeting held on 21 January 2026 has approved raising of funds by issue of non-convertible debentures for an amount not exceeding Rs 250 crore, in one or more tranches, in the nature of subordinated debt instruments, on private placement basis.
Atal Pension Yojana gets Cabinet nod for extension till FY31
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved continuation of government’s flagship Atal Pension Yojana (APY) up to financial year 2030-31 along with extension of funding support for promotional and developmental activities and gap funding.
Two-thirds of domestic households aware of securities products: Sebi survey
Mumbai: Nearly 63 per cent Indian households are now aware of at least one securities market product, but just 9.5 per cent have put in their money into it, a survey conducted by the market regulator Sebi said, highlighting a persistent gap between financial access and meaningful participation in capital markets. The survey, conducted by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) covering 90,000 households across urban and rural India, said that only 32.1 million households, or 9.5 per cent, have invested in securities market products.
Pharma & healthcare funds: Easing valuations, rising insurance aid outlook
Healthcare funds, a thematic category, belied investors’ hopes in 2025. These schemes lost 2.9 per cent on average in calendar year (CY) 2025. This was a sharp reversal from their strong run in CY 2023 and CY 2024, when the category returned 34.7 per cent and 39.6 per cent, respectively. “Underperformance was driven by tariff uncertainty, price erosion fears in certain limited-competition products for large-cap export generic pharma companies and start-up losses from new hospitals for some hospital names,” says A Anandha Padmanabhan, senior fund manager – equities, PGIM India Mutual Fund.
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