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Sebi has disposed of proceedings against Max Financial Services, Max Life, and Axis Group entities over an alleged Rs 3,911 crore shareholder loss, with the markets regulator finding that disclosure lapses and a fraudulent scheme were not established. Max Life Insurance Company is now known as Axis Max Life Insurance. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), in a final order passed on Monday, dropped proceedings against seven individuals, including Max Group founder and Chairman Analjit Singh. The proceedings arose from a Show Cause Notice (SCN) issued on October 24, 2024, following an investigation into transactions between the Max and Axis entities during 2009-10 to 2021-22. Sebi had examined three sets of arrangements entered into in 2010, 2015 and 2020. The case centred on allegations that Max Financial failed to make adequate and timely disclosures about the transactions and that Max Financial, Max Life, and Axis entities devised a scheme that provided undue benefit
Max Financial Services Ltd (MFSL), the holding company of Axis Max Life Insurance Limited, on Tuesday reported a 59 per cent fall in net profit to Rs 70 crore in the third quarter ended December 2024. The company had earned a consolidated net profit of Rs 171 crore in the year-ago period. During the reporting quarter, policyholders' income from life insurance operations saw a decline to Rs 8,809 crore as against Rs 12,237 crore in the same quarter a year ago, MFSL said in a release. As a result, the consolidated total income plummeted to Rs 8,927 crore as compared to Rs 12,359 crore in the third quarter of previous year, it said. The other subsidiary under MFSL is Max Life Pension Fund Management Limited.
Max Financial Services on Friday said its promoter group firm has sold a 3.19 per cent stake to repay their debt. Max Ventures Investment Holdings Pvt Ltd, a promoter company of Max Financial Services Ltd, sold 1.10 crore equity shares or 3.19 per cent in Max Financial Services on September 5. "The promoters have cleared all its debt and the pledge of shares held by the promoter in the target company (Max Financial Services) will be Nil," Max Financial said in a BSE filing. After the share sale, Max Ventures Investment Holdings Pvt Ltd's stake was reduced to 3.22 per cent from 6.40 per cent in Max Financial Services.