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Insurance Cos asked to issue digital policies, use DigiLocker by IRDAI

MAS Team 19 February 2021
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Insurance sector regulator Irdai has asked insurers to issue digital policies to their policyholders and also tell them how to use these documents,...

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Insurance policy documents can be saved in Digilocker, says IRDAI

MAS Team 11 February 2021
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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) told insurers to enable their IT systems to interact with Digilocker facility to...

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LIC IPO: 10% of issue size reserved for policyholders

MAS Team 10 February 2021
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Up to 10% of the LIC IPO issue size would be reserved for policyholders, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said.

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IRDAI Mandates Insurers to Offer Standardized Life Insurance Starting 2021

MAS Team 16 October 2020
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Irdai has come out with the guidelines for a standardized individual term insurance mandating all life insurance companies to offer these policies...

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Half of term policy buyers opt cover of Rs 1 crore or more during April-August: Policybazaar

MAS Team 01 October 2020
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More and more people are going for a term insurance plan giving cover of Rs 1 crore or more to financially protect their family, reveals data...

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Life Insurers new business premium reports positive growth for second straight month in August

MAS Team 11 September 2020
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India’s life insurance industry continued to see growth in new business premiums (NBP) in August for the second straight month, writes The...

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LIC policyholders can now submit maturity claim documents online

MAS Team 05 June 2020
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To settle maturity and survival benefit claims, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has asked policyholders to send scanned copies of their...

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Life insurers new premium collections drop 32% in March

MAS Team 24 April 2020
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Life insurance players saw nearly all financial metrics such as sum assured, first year premiums, policies issued, and lives covered decline...

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LIC policyholders given 30 day relaxation for premiums due in March, April in wake of Covid-19 distress

MAS Team 15 April 2020
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The Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) has announced a month-long extension for all policyholders whose premiums fall due in March and April in wake...

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IRDAI’s new guidelines to bring relief to group insurance customers of merging PSBs

MAS Team 31 January 2020
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The IRDAI has issued guidelines to protect the interests of customers of merging public sector banks who are also group insurance policyholders,...

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Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
As a result of these changes, IAs, cannot accept fees through credit cards, will have to sign a 26-clause investor agreement, have to maintain physical record written & signed by client, telephone recording, emails, SMS messages and any other legally verifiable record for five years. IAs were already asked to record the suitability and rationale for every piece of advice given, sign them and store them for five years.
 
While these extensive and frequent changes, designed to strengthen the conduct of IAs are well-meaning, these have sharply increased compliance efforts and cost. We, being online advisors, find many of changes harder to implement, compared to advisors working in the physical space. We will have to have an army of advisors, administrative and tech staff to be compliant. If we do this, we will have to divert money to these areas and the cost of our service will double. We want to remain the least-cost service in the market to benefit more and more people. In the circumstances, we are forced to change our business model from “advisory” to “research”. This will mean the following:
 
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What changes:
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Over the next few weeks our site and our communication to you will reflect these and other additional changes.
 
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