Insurance companies received Rs 53,900 crore FDI since December 2014: Official

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New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): The insurance sector has witnessed an influx of Rs 53,900 crore in foreign direct investment (FDI) from December 2014 to January 2024, Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi has said...

The government increased the permissible FDI limit from 26 per cent in 2014 to 49 per cent in 2015 and then to 74 per cent in 2021, he told ANI in an interview...

As a result, Rs 53,900 crore of FDI was received in the insurance companies between December 2014 and January 2024, he said...

Informing further about the impact of reforms in the Insurance sector, Joshi said that the Assets Under Management (AUM) nearly tripled to Rs 60.04 lakh crore as on March 31, 2023 as compared to Rs 21.07 lakh crore in 2013-14, while total insurance premium recorded more than two-fold jump to Rs 10.4 lakh crore from Rs 3.94 lakh crore at the end of March 14...

Meanwhile, insurance penetration increased from 3.9 per cent in 2013-14 to 4 per cent in 2022-23 while insurance density surged from USD 52 in 2013-14 to USD 92 in 2022-23, he said.. Insurance penetration refers to the ratio of premiums underwritten in a given year to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country..

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