1. Project Report on
“Study of Marketing Strategy
of BHARTI AXA INSURANCE LTD.”
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project grew out of our preparation for more than twenty days.
An enormous debt is owed to our tutor, Professor-------, for his
wisdom, enthusiasm, support and encouragement. It is his profound
knowledge an insight, and constant strictness and kind understanding
that help us in overcoming difficulties, mastering basic writing skills,
an deforming our own ideas, which consequently have enabled me to
finish this project. Without his revising for several times, the
project would not be what it is now.
We are eager to take the opportunity to thank - -------------- and
other teachers who have given us guidance, assistance and concern.
They have imparted to us so much valuable knowledge, which will
befit us a whole lifetime.
In addition, we would like to thank family who always support us in
whatever conditions. Their encouragement and love give me warmth,
strength and confidence, which help us in surmounting so many
obstacles and in realizing our dreams.
Finally, we give our heartfelt thanks to dear friends and fellow
students, who have accompanied us throughout the project.
3. index
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1. Executive Summary 04
2. About Insurance 04
3. About General Insurance 05
4. Life Insurance and India 06
5. Indian Contract Act 1872 08
6. Working of Life Insurance 12
7. About Bhari AXA Insurance 13
8. Features Bhari AXA Insurance 14
9. Bharti Group 15
10. Market share 17
11. Structure of Bhari AXA Insurance 18
12. Marketing Team Structure 19
13. Descriptions of few products 19
14. Carriers in Bharti AXA Insurance 21
15. Marketing 23
16. TELE-Marketing 24
17. Result from Calling 24
18. Channel Marketing 25
19. Procedure of getting Insurance 26
20. Recommendations 27
4. 21. Bibliography 28
22. Annexure ( Questionnaire For Comparision ) 29
exeCUTiVe SUMMARY
Monopoly of LIC has been broken to make Indian Insurance to
change its face and pace to tap the market and to make the new
challenges in it.
Insurance in India is not about India only; it is an open sector for the
private players.
The name which we would see in Indian insurance market is
something like: - Bharti (Indian company) + AXA(foreign player),
BAJAJ (Indian company) + Allianz (foreign player), TATA (Indian
company) + AIG (foreign player) and so many like them.
Companies now are tapping a lot of ways to capture the market and
hence adopting different ways to hold the large portion of the market.
Our project is to understand the different marketing strategies adopted
by the companies to increase their market share and along with it
meeting their own targets to achieve the position of no.1 in respective
field or segment of the market.
About Insurance:-
Insurance may be defines as social device to protect the economic
value of the Life and other assets. Under the plan of Insurance a
group of people are brought together and their share of money is
pooled to manage the loss suffered by any of them.
Insurance is a contract whereby in return of the payment of the
premium by the insured the insurers pay the financial loss suffered by
the insured as a result of the loss by the unforeseen events. The term
“risk” is used to define the probability of loss.
Insurance is a pool where large number of people exposed to similar
kind of risks makes contribution to the common fund out of which the
losses suffered by the unfortunate few due to accidental events are
made good.
5. The sharing of risk among large group of people is the basis of
insurance.
Characteristics of Insurance:-
1. Sharing of Risk
2. Cooperative device
3. Evaluation of Risk
4. Payment on event of happening of any special event
5. The amount of payment depends on the size and type of loss.
6. The success of Insurance business depends on the law of large
number of people insured against similar risk.
7. Insurance is a business which spreads the loss and the risk of few
people in the large number of people.
8. The insurance is a plan in which insured transfer his risk to insurer.
Insurance is divided in two basic zones:-
1. General Insurance
2. Life Insurance
About General Insurance:-
Insurance of the non life assets are called general insurance, this
includes loss of asset against water, fire, earthquake etc. With the
desertification in the Indian Market in General Insurance the
monopoly of the general Insurance public sector’s companies has
been broken. With the entrance of the new private player market
innovative technique has been introduced to capture the market. In
general Insurance around 17% of the market has been captured by the
private players.
General Insurance is a sector which alone has many type of insurance
coverage in it like Fire Insurance, Marine Insurance, motor Insurance,
Liability Insurance, Engineering Insurance etc.
The Non Life Insurers
National Insurance Co. Ltd
New Indian Assurance Co. Ltd
Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd
United India Insurance Co. Ltd
6. Tata AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd
IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd
Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd
Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd
Bharti Axa General Insurance Ltd.
HDFC Chub
Life Insurance and India:-
Life Insurance in India existed from long time. The modern concept
of Insurance was brought by Bruisers in India, and Oriental Insurance
Company was the first Insurance Company who did Insurance for the
Indian in 1818 and was established in Calcutta nowadays Kolkata.
Then due to no interference of government in it, private market
players ruled the market as they want to, that is why government
intervened in between to protect the interest of the mass and to
safeguard the money involved in it. All private companies were took
over by Government and Insurance market was turned to Public
sector and Life Insurance Corporation of India was formed in 1956 to
make the Insurance reachable at remote areas and that even by low
premiums or better said as affordable premium so as to secure their
life.
From the beginning of Insurance in India till now a lot of changes
have been made but the most significant change was in 1999, when
IRDA was formed. IRDA means Insurance Regulatory and
Development Authority. This was formed to rethink upon opening the
insurance sector for the Private players again but along with that to
have a check upon those private players an IRDA has to act as a
governing body to safeguard the interest of the public whose money
is involved in it.
From that time i.e. from the year 2001 insurance sector was opened
for the private players too. Since then Insurance sector is on the boom
and business is flourishing and a lot of private players are coming into
business. Here the private players doesn’t indicate to Indian Private
Companies but also foreign players are also involved in it, but to
manage the money flow in and outside the country IRDA takes care
of the contribution of the money by foreign partners of private
insurance companies. To control that IRDA has set a limit of FDI i.e.
26%.
7. The evolution of Insurance in India can be summarized as:-
Year Changes
1818 Oriental Insurance Company. The first Insurance company in India
1870 Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Company. First Indian Insurance company.
1912 The Indian Life Assurance Company enacted the first law to regulate the life
insurance business in India
1926 The Indian Assurance company act enacted to enable the government to collect
the statistical information about the insurance.
1938
The earlier legislation consolidated and amended the life insurance act with the
objective of protecting the interest of insurance in the public.
1956 245 Indian and foreign players and prudent societies are taken once by Central
govt. And nationalized
The number of companies in Insurance particularly in Life Insurance
has changed drastically now the number is in 17. List of them are
mentioned as below:-
1. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance
2. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
3. TATA AIG Life Insurance
4. Max New York Life Insurance
5. AVIVA Life Insurance
6. Bharti AXA Life Insurance
7. Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance
8. Reliance Life Insurance
9. SBI Life Insurance
10. HDFC Standard Life Insurance
11. Birla Sun Life Insurance
12. Sahara Life Insurance
13. ING Vysa Life Insurance
And so on....
8. Indian Contract Act 1872
Life Insurance contracts are the one which has to fulfil the
requirements of the Law of Contract as per the Indian Contract Act
1872.
Indian Contract Act 1872 implies: A contract must have certain
essential features in order to make it legally valid and enforceable.
Essential Features:-
1. Offer and Acceptance: - There should be the offer by the
customer in form of proposal form and Acceptance by the Insurance
Company.
2. Consideration- There should be the valid consideration against the
insured property in terms of the premium to b paid by the consumer.
3. Agreement between the parties: - There should be consensus on
the both side of the parties.
4. Capacity to contract: - The Insured should have the capacity to
perform the contract as that he a?) He should be of sound mind b) he
should not be abided by law to go for any contract c) he should be
major that he should have the age minimum to 18.
9. 5. Legality: - there should be the legality of contract as it should be
legal in nature and must be brought for the lawful consideration.
Above details have some technical words like Insured,
Insurer, and Premium etc. Let’s make a brief note on
that for a better understanding:-
Policyholder: - The one who pays the premium against policy
Insured: - The one who is insured against risk by insurance
company.
Insurer: - The one gives the insurance i.e. Insurance Company.
Premium: - The amount against continuance of the insurance
P.S.:- Policyholder and Insured can be same person and can be two
individuals even.
Apart from the Legal Structure of the Insurance Contract there are
some principles in Insurance Industry on which every company works
on. These principles are:-
Utmost Good Faith: - It is also termed as Uberrima Fides. It is
applicable on the proposer that all the contents which are filled and
signed by him on the proposal form are true as per his knowledge.
Insurable Interest: - It means that the property or life which is to be
insured the proposer has the legal rights upon that. Without insurable
interest no insurance can be provided. In life insurance term legal
rights on life means to prove the blood relation. A husband can take
policy for his wife.
Indemnity:- The prinviple of indemnity is an insurance principle
stating that an insured may not be compensated be the insurance
company in an amount exceeding the insured's economic loss.
Contribution:- Where there are two or more insurance on one risk,
the principle of contribution comes into play. The aim of contribution
is to distribute the actual amount of loss among the different insurers
who are liable for the same risk under different policies in respect of
the same subject matter. Any one insurer may pay to the insured the
full amount of the loss covered by the policy and then become
10. entitled to contribution from his co-insurers in proportion to the
amount which each has undertaken to pay in case of loss of the same
subject-matter.
Subrogation:- The doctrine of subrogation is a corollary to the
principle of indemnity and applies only to fire and marine insurance.
According to it, when an insured has received full indemnity in
respect of his loss, all rights and remedies which he has against third
person will pass on to the insurer and will be exercised for his benefit
until he (the insurer) recoups the amount he has paid under the policy.
Causa Proxima:- The rule of causa proxima means that the cause of
the loss must be proximate or immediate and not remote. If the
proximate cause of the loss is a peril insured against, the insured can
recover.
Mitigation of Loss - In the event of some mishap to the insured
property, the insured must take all necessary steps to mitigate or
minimize the loss, just as any prudent person would do in those
circumstances.
If asked we should know the benefits of the insurance
and that can be known by knowing the function of the
insurance.
PRIMARY FUNCTION:-
1. Provide protection: - As risks controlling is not in the hands of
anyone completely that is why Insurance Company provides the risk
protection.
2. Collective bearing of loss: - Insurance Company would have to
accept the loss and give respective claims as for the sake of contract
that has been done between the company and the insured.
3. Assessment of Risk: - There should be the proper assessment of
the risk so as to charge the correct and legible premium to insure the
subject matter of insurance.
4. Provide the certainty: - As the losses appear from the uncertainty
so Insurance Company would have to provide the certainty of
11. absorbing the loss so as to protect the insured under the risk in which
he has been insured.
SECONDARY FUNCTION:-
1. Prevent Loss: - Insurance cautious businessman and individuals to
adopt suitable device to prevent unfortunate consequences of risk by
observing safety instructions.
2. Small capital to large risk: - Small capital is demanded to cover the
risk of the large capital.
OTHER FUNCTION:-
It is a means of savings and investment apart from it its share in the
GDP counts very important. In India it is in a growing stage in
compare of the other countries lets’ have a look on it:-
United Kingdom 8.9%
Japan 8.3%
Korea 7.3%
United States 4.1%
Malaysia 3.6%
India 3.0%
China 1.8%
Brazil 1.3%
If we talk in terms of India only then the result will be something like
this:-
12. Working of Life Insurance:
Risk has to be assessed in order to decide tithe premium or to decide
that subject is insurable or not.
13. Pure Risk vs. Speculative Risk:-
Event representing there will be possibility of loss or no loss is called
pure risk. These risks are insurable in nature.
Speculative risk is the one which truly resembles gamble. There is the
possibility of loss or gain and wherever there is a chance of making
profit there insurance cannot exist. Therefore these risks are not
insurable in nature.
Approaches to Risk Management:-
Risk Management is the process of minimising the risk due to
unforeseen events. Steps involved in selecting the Risk Management
are:-
• To identify all the things that can be possibly wrong.
• To consider possibility that an event can occur.
Techniques toward the Risk Management;-
1. Avoiding the Risk: - Risk can be managed by avoiding it as when
the perils will come then it will be managed.
2. Eliminate the Risk: - Risk can be managed by eliminating the
cause of the loss.
3. Reducing the Risk: - Risk can be reduced by handling them in a
systematic manner.
4. Transfer of Risk: - Risk can be minimized by transferring the risk
of loss to any other person which is a true form of the INSURANCE.
About Bharti AXA Insurance Ltd.:-
14. Bharti AXA Life Insurance is a joint venture between Bharti, one of
India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri
business and retail, and AXA, world leader in financial protection and
wealth management. The joint venture company has a 74% stake
from Bharti and 26% stake of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd
(APH).
The company that launched its national operations in December 2006
has over 3000 employees across over 12 states in the country and
their business philosophy is built around the promise of making
people "Life Confident".
The following quote from their website and other press media did
make a connection to what we got as an answer to one of the
questions about their expansion strategies and customer acceptance.
"As we expand our presence across the country to cater to your
insurance and wealth management needs with our product and service
offerings, we continue to bring 'life confidence' to customers spread
across India. Whatever your plans in life, you can be confident that
Bharti AXA Life will offer the right financial solutions to help you
achieve them"
The Bharti group is very popular across the length and breadth of the
country as leading cell phone service provider - Airtel and if
marketed as Airtel Insurance, people easily recognize the brand name.
Also marketing message and bundling could very well be done with
the backing of Airtel.
The market as of 2006, is dominated by LIC with 63 % share while
ICICI Prudential and Bajaj Allianz are leading private players with
market shares of 10.6 % and 7.4 % respectively. Bharti AXA has the
challenges of second wave entrant while it has the advantage to learn
from the existing players and enjoy the already created insurance
awareness.
15. Features :
Following are some of the milestones
• 1870 - Establishment of first Indian Life Insurance office -
Bombay Mutual Assurance Society
• 1912 ; 1938 - Life Insurance Sector regulated - Indian Life
Insurance Companies Act enacted; Insurance Act 1938 passed
• 1956 - Life Insurance Nationalized through Life Insurance
Corporation of India Act - LIC becomes a State monopoly
• 2000 - Opening of the Insurance sector for private players.
Presently Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is permitted upto
26 %
• 2005 - 14 companies offering life insurance - one dominant
nationalized player and 13 pvt companies
• 2006 - 15 private sector companies - 2 wholly Indian owned.
Some of the interesting facts about Life Insurance Sector in India
1. Contributes 4.1 % of India's GDP
2. Second largest financial service after banking
3. Total number of lives insured and on books as of March 31,
2006 - 198,466,127
4. As of same date above, Rs. 5,496 billion is the total Assets
under Management of Life Insurance Corporations
5. A statutory requirement exists to reach rural areas
There are certain restrictions on how the assets are allocated and how
the profits are to be shared and this underpins the time to return to
profitablity for the private players. 50 % of the assets to be invested in
16. Government Bonds and 15 % in Infrastructure bonds leaving only 35
% for the fund managers to creatively manage. It is typically known
to be a 6 year period and with the opening up of this sector only in
year 2000, none of the private players are profitable yet. This makes it
ever more challenging for Bharti AXA which is the newest player in
the market.
The insurance products by Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Ltd
include:
o Wealth Confident
o Future Confident
o Future Confident II
o Secure Confident
o Save Confident
o Invest Confident
Each life insurance or general insurance product of Bharti AXA
Life is named confident as they believe in making each customer
'Life Confident' giving them the assurance that the future of their
loved ones is financially secure even in their absence.
Bharti AXA Group:-
• Bharti Airtel / Airtel Ltd.
• Bharti AXAInsurance
• Bharti-Tele Tech Ltd
• Bharti AXA Investment Managers
• Bharti Tele Soft
• Bharti Resources
• Bharti Foundation
1. Bharti Airtel Ltd. :- Bharti Airtel Ltd is one of Asia's
leading telecommunications service provider. The
Company is India’s largest integrated telecom
17. company in terms of customer base and offers Mobile
Services, Fixed Line services, Broadband & IPTV,
DTH service named Airtel Digital TV , Long Distance
and Enterprise services. Airtel also offers mobile
services in Sri Lanka on a state-of-the art 3.5 G
network.
2. Bharti AXAInsurance :- Bharti AXA Insurance
Company, India, is a leader in life insurance products,
financial protection, wealth management and financial
services.
3. Bharti-Tele Tech Ltd : Bharti-Tele tech currently
commands a leading share in retail as well as the
telecom service provider segments. Buoyed by its
experience & success in distribution & marketing as
well as the changing sphere of Indian economy, the
Company plans to offer a high range of products to the
consumers, going forward.
4. Bharti AXA Investment Managers :- Bharti AXA
Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. is a joint venture
between Bharti Ventures Limited - one of the foremost
business groups in India, AXA Investment Managers
(AXA IM) and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA
APH) (through NMIPL). We focus on excellence and
performance, with our professional fund management
taking care of your imperative financial needs, keeping
tomorrow in check while tracking a dynamic today.
5. Bharti Tele Soft :- Bharti Tele soft is the leading
provider of integrated VAS solutions for mobile
operators in emerging markets. Among the top 3
global providers of integrated VAS solutions in rapidly
growing markets, Bharti Telesoft has deployed
solutions for over 100 mobile operator customers in
over 70 countries worldwide.
6. Bharti Resources :- Bharti Learning Systems is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, which
provides end-to-end learning and skill- building
solutions for the Bharti Group companies and several
large corporates. It provides solutions that impact
business performance through enhanced employee
productivity, customer profitability and effective talent
18. transformation. Besides, Bharti Learning partners a
host of leading organisations such as American
Express, Genpact, Maruti Suzuki, PepsiCo, HCL,
Cummins, LG, JCB, Deutsche Bank, Motilal Oswal,
Blue Dart, Kaya, CEAT, Everest Industries and AXIS
Sales etc.
7. Bharti Foundation :- Bharti Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises was
established in 2000 with a vision "To help
underprivileged children and young people of our
country realize their potential". Bharti Foundation is
an organization established under the Laws of India
with charitable status pursuant to a "Deed of Trust"
dated August 7, 2000; registered at New Delhi on
August 25, 2000.
Market Share
If we look at the status of Bharti AXA Life Insurance’s market share
in comparison of other private company in comparison of premium
earned:-
No Insurer Market Share (%)
1. Bajaj Allianz 7.56
2. ICICI Prudential 7.35
3. Bharti AXA 4.10
4. HDFC Standard Life 2.87
5. SBI Life 2.31
6. Birla Sun Life 1.89
7. Tata AIG 1.29
8. Max New York 1.23
9. Aviva 1.14
10. Kotak Mahindra OLD Mutual 1.11
11. ING Vysya 0.79
12. Reliance Life 0.54
13. MetLife 0.40
14. Sahara Life 0.06
15. Shriram Life 0.03
19. Structure of Bharti AXA Insurance Ltd.:-
Managing Director & Chairman : - MR. Sunil Bharti Mitta
CFO :- Mr Milind Chalisgaonkar,
Chief Operating Officer :- Tim Thomas
Director – Human Resources :- Priya Ranjan
Chief Distribution and Marketing Officer :- Shyamal Saxena
Its hierarchy in Bharti AXA Life Insurance is like this:-
21. Few Products :-
1. Individual Plans :
a. Bharti AXA Life Bright Stars :- A
Unit Linked Child product. Bharti AXA
Life Bright Stars provides a launch pad
for your child’s bright future. What
else, we also have Jumpstart benefit
which is paid out at maturity along with
Policy Fund Value, which enables your
child to explore more career options.
b. Bharti AXA Life Spot Suraksha :-
Spot Suraksha helps us to create a pool
of wealth to meet your long-term needs,
with an added advantage of simplified
buying process.
c. Bharti AXA Dream Life Pension :- A
Unit Linked Pension Product, Dream
Life Pension, Bharti AXA Life
Insurance’s unique pension product
ensures that our retirement life is your
Dream Life.
d. Bharti AXA Life AspireLife :- Unit
Linked Endowment Product, Aspire
Life helps us to create a pool of wealth
to meet our long-term needs, while also
22. providing us adequate protection in
case the need arises.
e. Bharti AXA Life InvestConfident :-
Unit Linked Single Premium Product,
we have always strived hard to achieve
the best for us and your loved ones, so
when it comes to making an investment
decision, we would expect the best
from it too.
f. Bharti AXA Life WealthConfident:-
A unit-linked investment cum
protection policy, our wealth, your
status ensures that we get preferential
status wherever we go.
g. Bharti AXA Life FutureConfident :-
A unit-linked policy which offers
comprehensive protection along with
wealth creation in the long term.
h. Bharti AXA Life SaveConfident :-
Traditional money back insurance
product for long term savings,our
changing lifestages decide our financial
milestone planning. When we foresee
intermittent financial requirements in
the years to come, like regular expenses
related to our child’s education,
liquidity becomes a key aspect of your
planning along with long term savings,
and protection for your family.
i. Bharti AXA Life SecureConfident :-
A Long Term Life Insurance, all of us
desire to maximise the happiness for
our family at all times, irrespective of
the circumstances. The thought of
unfortunate events befalling us may
cause us anxiety about providing a
secured happiness to our loved ones.
2. Group Plans :
23. a. Bharti AXA Life – Swasthya
Sanjeevani :- Swasthya Sanjeevani is a
single premium group critical illness
product, providing comprehensive
protection against 6 critical illnesses.
b. Bharti AXA Life – Sanjeevani :-
Sanjeevani is a single premium group
term life insurance product, offering
protection to your family.
c. Bharti AXA Life Mortgage Credit
Shield :- Mortgage Credit Shield is a
Group Product that provides coverage
to people who have availed of a
Mortgage Home loan Home equity
loan from an Institution/Bank.
d. Bharti AXA Life Credit Shield :-
Credit Shield is a Group Product that
provides coverage to people who have
availed of a loan for 1 to 5 years from
Group Policyholder.
e. Bharti AXA Life Life Shield :- Life
Shield is a single premium group term
life insurance product.
24. Carriers in Bharti AXA Insurance :-
Talent Engagement objectives:
• To create an emotional commitment and strong two-way
relationship between the employees and the Company.
• To have clear performance expectations and a clear return
from the Company (working environment, development,
reward, career opportunities etc), which helps employees
to make a connection between their contribution and the progress made by the
Company.
• To inspire and empower people to achieve their best and reward them competitively
for their contribution and provide attractive career opportunities.
• To build a learning culture which fosters personal development and professional
mobility and upholds values of professionalism, innovation, pragmatism, team spirit,
integrity.
• To respect and value individuals, their diversity and support them in their need to
balance professional and personal lives.
"Core Job Functions" in following categories
25. • Sales & Distribution
• Marketing & Communications
• Product Development, Underwriting & Acturial
• Operations Management
• Claims Management
• Risk Management
• Program Management
• Finance & Accounts / Legal
• Administration & Facilities Management
• Information Technology
• Human Resources, Training & Development
Marketing:-
26. According to Kotler,” Marketing is a social and managerial process
by which individuals and groups obtain what they need; want
through creating, offering and exchanging of products of value
through other.
This definition of marketing rests on the core concepts like: needs,
wants, and demands, products (good, services and ideas); value, cost
and satisfaction; exchanger and transactions; relationships and
networks; markets; marketers and prospects.
NATURE OF GOOD
MARKETING
THAT IS WHAT BHARTI AXA INSURANCE BELIEVES IN, a
good marketing
Kotak adopts different methods for the marketing:-
Bharti AXA has positioned itself in terms of BRAND POSITIONING
as:-
FINANCIAL FREEDOM: “life’s full of fabulous choices ”.
Bharti AXA always expressed itself as always close to Customers
with the help of:-
• Ads
• Merchandising
• Corporate Stationery
27. TELE MARKETING:
It is a kind of Direct selling, which makes the LEAD
GENERATION for the BUSINESS, or it turned into the SALES
that are again building BUSINESS for the company.
Tele Marketing is marketing the product through telephone. The
most important aspect of Tele Marketing is COLD CALLING,
HOT CALLING, and OBJECTION HANDLING.
Cold Calling means Calling to the unknown telephone number for
the first time and that even without knowing the respondent.
Hot Calling means Calling to already approached person for the
further response
Objection Handling means to handle the type of objection that
may arise while calling.
By different type of calling we used to generate the LEAD for the
further business.
Result from Calling:-
Appointment: - Calling used to turn into the appointment to
generate the lead for the business depending upon the motto to
call, which was sometimes for the appointment of the Life
Advisors and sometimes for selling the policies.
Mail Brochure: - Sometimes responses were that the
respondent is not able to talk due to some reasons and they ask
to mail the details via e mail.
Call Later: - Responses used to come as to call later because
of their busy schedules, incorrect time to call as the persons
busy in meeting or having lunch, or driving or is in roaming
area.
28. Already a customer of Bharti AXA: - little response came
as the person is already a customer of the Bharti AXA
Insurance.
Not Interested: - Most of the responses turned to not interest
the basic reason for that is, in India Insurance are much about
telling then asking.
Database Problem: - If we got the database then problem
like wrong number was frequent to observe.
CHANNEL MARKETING
Distribution Network of Individual Life Insurance
Business in India
29. Direct selling part includes Tele marketing through advertisements
etc.
Brokers are the one who can sell the insurance product of a lot of
company and is appointed by the company but works for the
individual and earn brokerage through company.
Life Advisors is the name given to the traditional “Agent” which we
often hear. Life Advisor is the one who can sell the insurance product
of only one company and commission is what he earns in reference to
the business provided by him.
Other channel here means the Corporate Agents, banks, selling
through Franchisee etc. are the parts of the channels which create
business for the company.
Channel development’s most important aspect is Life advisor so we
should know the process of recruiting the life advisor.
Procedure of Getting Insurance :-
First of all PHF form has to be filled along with it necessary
document has to be attached:-
PHF means Personal History Form in which NAME, ADDRESS,
MOBILE NO., Type of Training Required etc has to be mentioned.
Simply all those information has to be there which are necessary to be
known to the company so as to decide the potential of the Proposer to
bring the business to the company.
Then basic requirements as per the rule of the Insurance Act, 1938
has to be fulfilled.
1. Person has to be major
2. Should be of sound mind
3. Should work for only one company
30. 4. Should be 10th if going for rural area, and should be 12th passed if
going for the urban area. Urban area means the area having the
population above 5000 persons.
5. Should have residential proof
6. Should have identity proof.
7. Copy of PAN Card has to be attached.
And then the most important aspect that person will have to go for the
50 hours training and will have to secure 50% marks to pass the
examination conducted by III (Insurance Institute of India) in behalf
of IRDA to get the licence to do the policy and earn the commission
out of the work done.
Bharti AXA life is the theme that is opted by the Bharti for its
employee
CPI = FOS*% active * Average case size * Average
case rate
CPI: Cash Premium Income
FYP i.e. First Year Premium excluding the renewal premium is CPI
of the company.
FOS: Feet on Street. Sales are source of it and source of sales is Life
Advisors.
Percentage active: It is that how many policies the life Advisors have
sold or in a better manner we can say that active is the one who sells
at least one policy in a year.
Average Case Size = TOTAL PREMIUM / no. of policies
Average Case Rate = Total policies/ No. of Active Life Advisor
In it different training modules is designed at different levels of life
advisors.
Rewards and recognition has 5 levels in it:-
31. RECOMMENDATIONS:-
• Some more motivation to the employees over there is
needed.
• Infrastructure has to be built properly because an
office is the face of the company.
• Tele marketing need to be focussed much.
• Networking is needed to be made broad as the number
of branches with KotakLife is only 75 and the 7 states
has been touched by the company so there is a huge
untapped market available for the Kotak.
• Marketing in terms of the media via advertisements on
Televisions to small commercials on FM has to be
made because there were respondents in our survey
who even haven’t heard the name of KOTAK Life
Insurance. FM is suggested here because the people
who can drive the private life insurance is the youth,
and FM is something on which youngsters look upon
too.
• Awareness Camp to the sub urban area should be
focussed by kotak.
32. • Apart from the Brand Positioning in urban area, a
strategy should be adopted by Kotak to make its brand
also near to middle level, or high aspirant people
because they are the main source of the business in
India.
1. TiMeS OF indiA
2. THe HindU
3. BUSineSS wORld
4. OUTlOOk BUSineSS
5. BUSineSS TOdAY
Webliography:-
1. www.bharti.com
2. www.indiatimes.com
3. www.insuranceworld.com
4. www.findarticles.com
5.www.wikipedia.org
6.www.managementparadise.com
7.www.google.com
33. Other sources:-
1. The Economic Times
2. Blogs by admin
ANNEXURE
Questionnaire For Comparision
Basic Information
Name : Mr./Mrs./Ms. ---------------------------------------- Phone
No.: ------------------
Age : -------------- Occupation : -----------------------
Designation:----------------
Education :
Graduate
Post Graduate
Non-Graduate
Professional :
Doctor
Engineer
C.A.
M.B.A.
L.L.B.
Other ---------------------------
Annual Income of Household :
Up to Rs. 2 Lakh
Rs. 2 Lakh to Rs. 5 Lakh
Rs. 5 Lakh to Rs. 8 Lakh
Above Rs. 8 Lakh
35. If no, state the
reasons :----------------------------------------------------------------
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7. Are you willing to invest in same Insurance Provider in
future ?
Definitely Yes Yes
Can’t Say
Definitely No No
8. Will you choose Bharti AXA Insurance Ltd. as your Insurance
Provider ?
Definitely Yes Yes
Can’t Say
Definitely No No