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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has not cleared any unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) for nearly two months, following the recent changes to the norms and the regulatory tussle over the investment-cum-insurance products.
Life Insurance Corporation of India is likely to submit new unit-linked insurance plans Ulips with the regulator in light of its two plans coming to a close. The corporation’s endowment plan Wealth Plus closed on May 8 while another pension plan Market Plus will close at the end of next month. It is likely to float new schemes to ensure that there are enough products in its stable.
While people tend to invest a lot of time and effort in evaluating investment avenues, the same cannot be said about the caution exercised during execution of the transaction. Even minor errors, many of them merely clerical in nature, could result in needless hassles or delays.
To make unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) more transparent, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) on Tuesday proposed to standardize definitions of lapsing, reviving and surrendering of these policies.
The feud between the two regulatory authorities, in the aftermath of sebi’s ban on ulips, has turned out to be quite a sensitive topic. In the recent days, that has, as ever so, come to be ballooned by the media into a sensational one. In that, the media has dutifully arisen to the occasion, and in its own inimitable style, spared no pains but given the widest possible publicity to the newfound hot topic with zeal and in a feverish pitch.
Petitioners who have filed public interest litigations (PILs) on unit linked insurance plans (Ulips) with various High Courts, plan to oppose capital market regulator Sebi’s plea that all those cases be transferred to the Supreme Court. Sumedha Rao, lawyer for Rajendra Thacker, one of the litigants, said that they wouldbe deprived of one level of appeal if the matter is heard in the Supreme Court. A verdict by the Supreme Court is final.
Insurance regulator IRDA, locked in a turf war with capital market watchdog Sebi over regulation of unit-linked policies, has reemphasised that insurers should offer assured life insurance cover with ULIPs. Reiterating its December 2005 order on ULIPs, IRDA in an order late last night said: “All Unit linked Insurance products (ULIPs), including pension/annuity products must have a minimum assured sum payable on death.”
Based upon the insurance related data as of year ending March 31, 2010 and related discussions, the Authority issues the following clarifications in continuation of the ULIP guidelines “Guidelines on Unit Linked Products” issued vide Circular No. 032/IRDA/Actl/Dec-2005 dated 21.12.2005:
Honourable Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and 14 life insurers on a petition by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India seeking transfer of cases from high courts relating to Unit Linked Insurance Products.
Insurance regulator IRDA has asked life insurers to disclose the commission paid to agents for unit-linked products amid a debate over huge pay-outs given to them vis-a-vis mutual funds.
