Making sense of the life-insurance sector

The stock market has recently seen the listing of two life-insurance companies: SBI Life and HDFC Life. Last year ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company had debuted on the stock exchanges. Many investors are still clueless about how to analyse these companies. They can't be blamed for this because there was no direct presence of insurance companies on the stock exchanges before the listing of these three companies. Following are the parameters, along with their explanation, that you should see while analysing life insurers. The table mentions how the three newly listed insurance companies stand on these metrics. Gross written premium: The premium du