Review of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in Insurance Sector

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.... Sector/ Activity % of Equity/FDI cap Entry Route 5.2.22.1 Insurance Company 49% Automatic 5.2.22.2 Intermediaries or Insurance Intermediaries including insurance brokers, re-insurance brokers, insurance consultants, corporate agents, third party administrator, Surveyors and Loss Assessors and such other entities, as may be notified by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India from time to time. 100% Automatic 1.2. Existing Para 5.2.22.2 shall be renumbered as 5.2.22.3. 1.3    5.2.22.3  Other Conditions (a)  No Indian Insurance company shall allow the aggregate holdings by way of total foreign investment in its equity shares by ....

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....uidelines specified by Reserve Bank of India under the FEMA Regulations. (g)  The foreign equity investment cap of 100 percent shall apply on the same   terms as above to insurance brokers, re-insurance brokers, insurance consultants, corporate agents, third party administrator, Surveyors and Loss Assessors and such other entities, as may be notified by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India from time to time. However, the condition of Indian owned and controlled, as specified in Clause (d) above, shall not be applicable to Intermediaries and Insurance Intermediaries and composition of the Board of Directors and key management persons shall be as specified by the concerned regulators from time to....

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....payments to the foreign group or promoter or subsidiary or interconnected or associate entities beyond what is necessary or permitted by the Authority; vi. shall make disclosures in the formats to be specified by the Authority of all payments made to its group or promoter or subsidiary or interconnected or associate entities; vii. composition of the Board of Directors and key management persons shall be as specified by the concerned regulators; (j)  The provisions of paragraphs (i) (b) and (d) of Annexure 9 relating to 'Banking-Private Sector', shall be applicable in respect of bank promoted insurance companies. (k)  Terms 'Control', 'Equity Share Capital', 'Foreign D....