NHRC issues notice to IRDAI over life insurance denial to disabled persons
New Delhi [India]: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has received a complaint stating that persons with hearing and speech disabilities are not able to avail the benefits of life insurance. This is because insurance companies are not providing insurance coverage to persons with disabilities.

Life Insurance vs Term Life Insurance - which has higher claim settlement ratio?
New Delhi: Your family buys insurance trusting it will help them when needed. But what if the claim gets rejected?

This fear is real. People worry about claim settlement ratios before buying any policy.

Axis Max Life and Yes Bank celebrate twenty-one years of strategic excellence; set sights on digital-first future
New Delhi: Axis Max Life Insurance Limited, formerly known as Max Life Insurance Company Limited (“Axis Max Life”/ “Company”) and YES BANK Limited (“YES BANK”), are celebrating the 21st anniversary of their strategic bancassurance partnership. To commemorate more than two decades of synergy, both institutions reaffirmed their commitment to delivering a next-generation customer experience driven by digital-first delivery and hyper-personalized protection solutions.

Why choose term insurance over ULIPs for pure protection
For most Indian families, financial planning begins with a simple question: “If something happens to me, will my family be okay?” Not just today, but for years ahead, when expenses rise, children grow up, and responsibilities get bigger. The simple solution this worry is Term Insurance. But with so many products in the market, many people get confused between term insurance and a ULIP. Both offer life cover, both sound useful, yet they are designed for very different needs.

Aviation insurance rates soften on excess capacity, lower global losses
Source Credit: Aathira Varier, Business Standard

Mumbai: Despite the Air India crash in July last year, insurance rates in the aviation segment for Indian carriers have softened, as global reinsurers continue to have excess capacity amid fewer air mishaps worldwide, resulting in lower loss experience, industry insiders said. They added that reinsurers are offering discounts of nearly 10–12 per cent on premiums across segments in the aviation market.

Narayana Health Insurance widens Aditi footprint; enters six new cities
Narayana Health Insurance is scaling up its low-cost, hospital-linked health insurance play with the expansion of its Aditi plan into six new markets---Guwahati, Dharwad, Kolar, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, and Davanagere, marking a broader push towards a pan-India footprint.

SEBI conflict code overhaul seen pragmatic, but transparency, enforcement gaps remain
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) board’s revised conflict-of-interest framework is being seen as a pragmatic attempt to tighten internal governance, though legal experts have raised concerns around limited public disclosures, reliance on recusal mechanisms and gaps in enforceability.

Sebi mulls allowing gift cards, prepaid instruments to invest in MFs
New Delhi: Markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday proposed introducing gift cards or gift prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) for investments in mutual funds to improve financial inclusion through onboarding of new investors in the space.

Can Sebi’s new conflict rules fix its governance gaps?
Mumbai: India’s market regulator has tightened conflict-of-interest rules, bringing its top leadership under a stricter disclosure and investment regime amid heightened scrutiny of governance standards.

Govt appoints Kompella Venkata Ramana Murty as Sebi whole-time member
India has ​appointed Kompella ​Venkata Ramana ‌Murty as whole-time member of market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India ‌for a period of three years, a government notice showed late ​on Tuesday.

Expiring Sebi approvals put ₹18,000-cr IPOs at risk
 

Tata AIA launches three ULIP funds targeting AI, innovation themes
Tata AIA Life Insurance opened subscriptions for three new unit-linked funds — the Large Mid Cap Innovation Fund, Large Mid Cap Innovation Pension Fund, and Global AI & Technology Leaders Fund — with the New Fund Offer (NFO) running from March 24 to March 31, 2026.

HDFC AMC shares rally 4%; MOFSL says valuations reasonable, sees 20% upside
 

ICICI Prudential Life launches ULIP on Smallcap 250 Index Fund
 

HDFC Gold ETF to use commodity derivatives during supply shortage
 

Nippon India Gold ETF breaks into Global Top 10, ranks 6th by flows
 

Mutual funds are now gift-wrapped: A new route could make mutual funds more personal and more accessible
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday floated a novel idea to make investing a little more personal and a lot more accessible. It has proposed allowing gift PPIs (prepaid payment instruments) to be used for buying mutual fund units, effectively turning investments into something you can wrap, send and share. Under the proposal, investors could gift mutual fund units to friends and family through these instruments, each capped at ₹10,000, valid for a year, and strictly non-reloadable more like a one-time present than a reusable wallet.

Sebi allows AMCs to continue solution-oriented schemes
In a relief to some asset management companies (AMCs), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has decided that they can continue to have solution-based schemes with riders. In a master circular on mutual funds released on last Friday, it clarified that fund houses can choose to continue these schemes, but they will not be allowed to launch lifecycle funds with 20 years (for children’s fund) and 30 years (for retirement fund) tenures. This implies that if fund houses want to have solution-based schemes for retirement and children’s education, they will be allowed to have lifecycle funds of remaining four tenures: 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and 25 years. Alternately, the fund houses can choose to discontinue their solution-oriented schemes of all tenures.

HDFC AMC: 5 reasons Motilal Oswal predicts 20% upside potential
HDFC Asset Management Company was trading in green up over 2%. The share price has been trending higher, and Motilal Oswal sees room for significant upside. The brokerage has put out a ‘Buy’ rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 2,700, implying an upside of roughly 20%. 

ASK Property Fund exits Mahagun Group’s Noida Project with 21% return
ASK Property Fund on Tuesday announced a successful exit of ₹650 crore from Mahagun Group’s Noida project, generating an internal rate of return (IRR) of 21 per cent and an investment multiple of 2.1x on an initial investment of ₹310 crore.

India bonds seen lower as elevated oil, higher US yields pinch; debt sale in focus
The ​10-year Treasury yield was also off highs but stayed close to 4.40%, after breaking that ⁠level for the first time in nearly eight months on Monday.