Insurance industry entering a phase of sustainable growth: HDFC Life CEO

Very few players can go for listing in the life insurance space, says Amitabh Chaudhry

Ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), HDFC Life’s CEO, Amitabh Chaudhry tells Subrata Panda and Anup Roy the reason why the insurance sector is seeing a surge in listings and how its protection business has been doing better than peers.  

There were reports that Standard Life was pushing for the listing when the initial structure for the merger with Max Life was rejected by the regulator. Is the IPO driven by Standard Life’s drive to cash out some of its stakes?

When we announced the merger in August 2016, a couple of months before that the board