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Sumeet Singh
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Star Health Insurance Pre-IPO

Star Health and Allied Insurance (SHAI), the largest private health and retail health insurance company in India, plans to raise around US$1.0bn in its India IPO. It is backed by Westbridge and Rakesh Jhunjhuwala. Owing to the latter, it will draw a lot of retail interest.

SHAI insured 20.5m people in FY21. SHAI primarily offers retail health insurance which accounted for 87.9% of its FY21 GWP. Individual agents accounted for 97% of its FY21 GWP.

Its GWP has grown by 72.6% over FY19-21 on the back of 58.6% growth in agents and 62.5% growth in the number of policies. SHAI has consistently grown faster than the industry over the past few years resulting in a steady increase in its market share. With a gross written premium (GWP) of INR93.5bn in FY21, SHAI had a market share of 15.8% in the Indian health insurance market and 31.3% in the retail health insurance market.

Along with growing fast, SHAI has also managed to remain profitable since FY16 with its claims ratio remaining below 67% in most years. Although, the company recorded a loss in FY21 on the back of higher claims due to COVID-19 and reinsurance related adjustments. In addition, as the second COVID-19 wave only peaked in 1Q22, FY22 will be impacted as well.
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Star Health & Allied Insurance Co Ltd

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