Top Indian Insurance Industry News & Updates - 22 Jan 2026,Thursday
🗎 Life Insurance
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.
PNB MetLife empowers customers with innovative offering for long-term financial planning, with the PNB MetLife dividend leaders index fund
Delhi: PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited (PNB MetLife), one of India’s leading life insurers, has launched an offering aimed at empowering customers with flexible, long-term financial planning through the PNB MetLife Dividend Leaders Index Fund (SFIN ULIF03916/01/26DIVIDENDFN117) along with ULIP Plans, which invests in high dividend yield companies1. The fund has been introduced under PNB MetLife’s Goal Ensuring Multiplier - GEM (UIN: 117L133V08) and Smart Goal Ensuring Multiplier - Smart GEM (UIN: 117L139V02) products.
Guardian India appoints Karunakaran Azhisur as India Head
Chennai: Guardian India Operations Private Limited, the global capability centre for The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, has announced the appointment of Karunakaran Azhisur as Country Head - India.
Canara HSBC Life Insurance Q3 net profit falls 5.7%, net premium income rises 42.9%
Lapsed life insurance explained: What happens and how to restore your cover
📝 SBI Life taps cricket stars Rishab Pant and Ravindra Jadeja to rebrand insurance as tool for aspiration
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🗎 General Insurance
📝 Finance and insurance are decisive levers in auto retail now: Industry leaders
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🏦 SEBI
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.
📝 Sebi's rap on the knuckles: Investment adviser pulled up for routing client money through employee account
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🗎 Pension Funds/PF
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.
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🗎 Mutual Funds / AMCs
Indexation benefit coming back? Will Budget 2026 revisit recent mutual fund tax changes
Over the last two Union Budgets, the taxation framework for mutual funds and capital market investments has seen multiple changes. In Union Budget 2024, presented in July after the Modi government returned to power for a third term, the government revised rules around capital gains tax, indexation benefits on debt mutual funds, securities transaction tax (STT) and taxation of certain investment structures. These followed earlier changes in 2023 that removed long-term capital gains with indexation for most debt mutual funds.
Sebi, Amfi in talks on cutting KYC, depository charges with an eye on mutual fund profitability
India's mutual fund industry body is in discussions with the markets regulator to reduce certain fixed or non-variable costs borne by mutual funds, as these charges do not decline with growth in assets and continue to weigh on profitability, said three people familiar with the matter.
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.
📝 ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund resumes subscription in its small cap fund
📝 Motilal Oswal AMC CIO Niket Shah moves into MD role in Principal Investments
📝 UTI AMC's Q3 PAT flat at Rs 138 crore
📝 Heavy IPO supply may cap market upside in 2026; returns likely to stay moderate: Ashish Gupta, Axis MF
📝 India’s domestic growth story intact; bullish on mid and smallcaps despite global uncertainty: Dinshaw Irani
📝 ETBudget Boardroom 2026 | Freeze LTCG for 3-5 years to boost certainty, says SBI Mutual Fund’s DP Singh
📝 SBI MF ‘eyes 10% of Adani’s biggest rupee bond issue’
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🗎 Govt Securities / Bonds
📝 PFC's zero coupon bonds a smart bet with tax advantage
📝 India bonds gain on growing hopes of RBI support
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✈ International News
📝 Vietnam raises $496 mln in government bond auction
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