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Insurance stks gain; HDFC Life adds 5% on Nifty50 inclusion, SBI Life up 2%

HDFC Life Insurance Company will replace Anil Agarwal-controlled Vedanta in the benchmark index with effect from July 31.

ICICI Lombard, HDFC Life: What do charts indicate for insurance stocks?

Major stocks are facing resistance at a 100-day moving average (DMA).

Life Insurance stks in focus; ICICI Prudential Life, SBI Life gain up to 7%

Analysts remain certain that demand for pure protection is tend to rise, with individual customers getting more educated toward the risk that such insurance covers

HDFC Life, SBI Life: Has Chris Wood made a wrong investment call?

The recent Budget 2020 proposals came like a bolt from the blue for the life insurance firms. A knee-jerk reaction saw stocks of private life insurers plunge 6-13 per cent at the bourses on Saturday.

Budget 2020: Insurers, mutual funds fear impact from tax code nudge

Investors will have to forego tax benefits on several products if they switch to new regime

FPIs bullish on insurance stocks; holding touches new high in Sep quarter

So far this calendar year, FPIs' stakes in SBI Life, Insurance ICICI Lombard and HDFC Life have risen by 18.85, 8.62 and 7.71 percentage points, respectively, since the December 2018 quarter

Insurance companies gain, HDFC Life, ICICI Lombard, SBI Life hit new high

Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Nestle India, Bata India, Berger Paints, Info Edge (India), Manappuram Finance, Siemens, Voltas and Whirlpool of India, too, hit new highs today.

Insurance stocks trade weak on fears of higher tax

HDFC Standard Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, SBI Life Insurance and Max Financial Services were down in the range of 3% to 5% on the BSE

Insurance stocks become fund managers' favourites

Insurance companies stocks are emerging as one of the favorites for domestic mutual fund managers. Until last year, the insurance sector had little or no representation in the stock market. However, a slew of big-ticket listings have caught the fancy of money managers, who are constantly on the lookout to expand their stock universe thanks to the gush of inflows.This can be gauged from the fact that three insurers - ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and SBI Life Insurance - put together have consumed over Rs 6,000 crore of mutual fund equity assets. Further, HDFC Standard Life Insurance, which listed last week, saw investments from ICICI Prudential AMC, Reliance Nippon MF, Sundaram MF and Axis MF, among others.Not just the IPO, but mutual funds have been seeing lapping up shares of these companies from the secondary market as well. For instance, in October, equity MFs over Rs 1,000 crore in ICICI Lombard and SBI Life.Mahesh Patil, co-chief ...