Foreign Direct investment serves as a focal source of capital formation in any countries for its economic development in a significant way. This is expected to include all industries and sectors including insurance, especially in developing countries such as India. It is beyond doubt that the...

The article analyses the link between Italian life insurers' profitability and bank affiliation. It also examines the influence that the differences in product mix and distribution costs displayed by bank affiliated versus traditional insurers has on results, and the changes that the big...

I find that life insurers with bank affiliates had higher premium growth rates than did other life insurers in 2008. The higher growth is derived mainly from annuity products (deposit-type insurance products), which are often viewed as substitutes for bank certificates of deposit (CDs). The...

This paper attempts to examine the relationship between financial performance and their determinants in the case of Indian life insurance sector. This study is carried out using panel data of 10 companies for 10 years from 2005 to 2014. The financial performance is indicated by Return on Assets...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that affect the financial performance of life insurance sector in Pakistan. Possible internal and external factor that include Liquidity, net premium, premium growth, underwriting risk, debt to equity, insurance leverage, tangibility,...