Regulatory intervention, high inflation cripple insurance industry

The agent count at Reliance Life Insurance has fallen 26,000, or 8% to 1.24 lakh at the end of March 31, 2013 since 2012 when it sold a 26% stake to Nippon Life which valued the company at three times its embedded value. In January this year, INGGroup of the Netherlands sold 26% stake at a 25% loss to its JV partner ExideBSE 1.28 %after a decade-long battle trying to make sense out of the Indian Life Insurance marke That simply is the tale of sliding fortunes of the Indian life insurance industry which until a few years ago was considered to be a sunrise industry promising decades of uninterrupted growth and loads of profits for shareholders  http://www.myallagents.com/Regulatory-intervention-high-inflation-cripple-insurance-industry/details.html