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Submitted to:
Palash Saha
Assistant Professor
Course Instructor
Risk management & Insurance (FIN 410)
Submitted by:
Zareen Nowreen Sharif (1911)
Shonom Akter (1933)
Myenuddin Kabir Shakil (1947)
Fara Ul Fath (2215)
Letter of transmittal
Palash Saha
Assistant Professor
Jahangirnagar University
We are the students of your Risk management & Insurance course and as a part of your course, we
were assigned to write a report on a topic provided by you. The topic chosen for our group is
‘Performance evaluation of life insurance companies of Bangladesh’. I along with my group
members have successfully completed the report and humbly request you with due respect to go
through it.
Although we are in a learning curve, this report has enabled us to gain valuable insight about
different motivational approaches in different companies. It was a stimulating opportunity and a
valuable experience for us. Thank you for your supportive consideration for formulating this bright
idea. Without your inspiration this report would have been an incomplete one. It will be kind of
you if you accept our report on the previously mentioned topic. I hope you will be pleased and find
this report satisfactory.
Sincerely yours,
Declaration of originality
We hereby declare that we wrote and composed the report about the topic ‘Performance evaluation
of life insurance companies of Bangladesh’ independently as team. We did not use any other
sources, figures, be they printed sources or sources off the internet that is not referenced in the
report. This includes possible figures or tables. We marked all passages and sentences in our work
that were taken from other sources clearly as such and named the exact source. We also declare
that – to our best knowledge – this work has never before been submitted by us or anybody else at
this or any other university. We are aware that a noncompliance with this declaration may result
in a grading of our work as “insufficient”. We also know that a copyright violation as well as an
attempted fraud may be prosecuted and a deliberate infringement on any laws concerning cheating
constitutes an administrative offence, for which a penalty can be inflicted.
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Acknowledgement
The process of making the report for the course ‘Risk management & Insurance’ was a great
chance for learning and academic development. Therefore, we consider ourselves as very lucky
individual as we were provided with an opportunity to be a part of it.
First of all thanks to the Almighty for all the graces and assistances. Apart from the efforts of my
team, the success of any work depends largely on the guidelines of many others. I would like to
express my gratitude towards our group members. I appreciate their kind co-operation, which
helped us in completion of this report. We are also thankful for everyone’s aspiring guidance,
invaluably constructive criticism and friendly advice during the report work. Furthermore, I am
sincerely indebted to them for sharing their truthful and illuminating views on a number of issues
related to the report.
Specially, we would like to show our greatest appreciation to course instructor Palash Saha sir who
in spite of being extraordinarily busy with his duties and classes, took time out to hear, guide and
keep us on the correct path and allowing us to carry out our report in a very smooth manner. We
cannot say thank you enough for his tremendous support and help. Mentoring us from all the
aspects needed was motivating.
We perceive this opportunity as a big milestone in our academic development. We strive to use
gained skills and knowledge in the best possible way, and we will continue to work on their
improvement, in order to attain desired academic objectives. Hope to continue the hard work in
the future.
Thanking you,
ID: 1947
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Executive Summary
After the independence of Bangladesh, insurance sector in Bangladesh emerged with two
nationalized insurance companies including 1 life and 1 general; along with 1 foreign insurance
company. Private insurance companies started to enter the market in mid 80s and the sector started
to expansion. As of now, there are 62 companies operating under Insurance Act 2010. 18 of them
are life insurance companies including 1 state owned company (Jiban Bima Corporation) and 1
foreign company ("Financial System: Insurance", 2020). Among them, 11 are listed in Dhaka
Stock Exchange and have wide range of information available for analysis. We evaluated these
companies based on their performance in recent years. We used different ratios and ranking factors
using their information available from annual report.
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Table of Contents
Letter of transmittal......................................................................................................................... 3
Acknowledgement .......................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 8
Objective ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 9
Limitations ...................................................................................................................................... 9
EPS............................................................................................................................................ 14
Market Capitalization................................................................................................................ 18
References ..................................................................................................................................... 21
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Introduction
Insurance is deemed as an unsought product which consumers actively do not show interest in
buying (Rejda & McNamara, 2017). Either they are forced to buy the product (in case of vehicles
insurance) or they are to be educated about the importance and advantages of buying it.
Bangladesh, being a third world country, has a very low rate of insurance due to being unaware
about the importance of it. Bangladesh is the most underinsured country in the non-life insurance
category, standing to lose as much as 0.8 percent of GDP from natural disasters a year, said Lloyd's
of London, one of the leading insurance markertplaces in the world (Alo, 2020). To shed a bit
more light into it, Bangladesh had the largest insurance gap amongst the 43 countries covered in
the report standing at 5.5 Billion USD or in other words, only 2.1% of the total GDP. Per head
insurance premium is only $8 which just states that it is safe to say that maximum people in
Bangladesh don’t possess any kind of insurance. So, the operation of insurance companies in
Bangladesh is a bit critical and tougher because they also have to make people aware about
insurance.
Objective
The broad purpose of this report is to understand the operation of different life insurance
companies operating in Bangladesh. Some specific objectives we wish to fulfill are understanding
of-
Methodology
The report is mostly made based on the information received from annual report of respective
companies. We have collected the data and gathered them together for the comparison. We have
used different key financial indicators like ROE, ROA, EPS etc. These financial indicators give us
the clear view about the company.
Limitations
While preparing this report, we faced some limitations and restraints. These will act as a hurdle
for us during this time. The restraints are mostly the lack of information regarding market and
the companies.
Key Indicators
ROE (Return on Equity)
This indicates the financial performance by measuring net income in terms of shareholders’
equity. As equity refers to asset minus debt, ROE is also considered as the return on net assets.
This is a primary indicator of how effectively the management is using its assets to make profits
(Besley & Brigham, 2008). The higher the percentage of company’s ROE is, the better the
company’s asset management is.
Net Income
ROE=
Average Shareholders′ 𝐸𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑦
ROE
1.2000
1.0000
0.8000
0.6000
0.4000
0.2000
0.0000
Popular and Pragati life insurance has the highest return on equity in the recent years with 68.2%
and 68.1% respectively. Progressive and Eastern has a very poor rate of return on equity with
24.7% and 26.6% respectively. (See Appendix Table-1)
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Net Income
ROA=
Total Assets
0.6000
ROA
0.5000
0.4000
0.3000
0.2000
0.1000
0.0000
National Delta Life Delta Life Guardian Meghna Popular Pragati Life Prime Progressive Sandhani
Life Insurance Insurance Life Life Life Insurance Islami Life Life Life
Insurance Co Ltd. Co Ltd. Insurance Insurance Insurance Ltd Insurance Insurance Insurance
Co. Ltd. Ltd. Co. Ltd. Ltd Co. Ltd.
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
In terms of return on assets, Pragati Life Insurance provides with the highest return on assets with
46.4% in the latest year, 2018. They have a consistent trend in all the five years. Popular Life
Insurance comes second while Sandhani Life Insurance being the last in this factor. (See Appendix
Table-2)
Quick Ratio
Quick ratio indicates any company’s liquidity position in short term scenario. It provides a view
on company’s ability of how quickly it can meet its short-term obligations with the help of its
most liquid assets (Reilly, Brown & Leeds, n.d.). If the company’s quick ratio is more than 1, it
means that the company can pay its current liabilities without getting any outside financing or
selling its inventory. The higher the ratio is, the better is the company’s financial stability; the
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lower it gets, the worse it gets for the company in terms of paying debts. It is also known as acid
test ratio.
Popular life Insurance has the highest liquidity ratio with 10.3:1 meaning they will be easily able
to repay their current debts with current assets. Whereas Prime Life Insurance will need external
financing or asset selling due to their current ratio being 0.68:1. (See Appendix Table-3)
Net Sales
FAT=
Average Fixed Assets
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6.000
5.000
4.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
0.000
National Delta Life Eastern Meghna Popular Pragati Life Prime Progressive Sandhani
Life Insurance Insurance Life Life Insurance Islami Life Life Life
Insurance Co Ltd. Co. Ltd. Insurance Insurance Ltd Insurance Insurance Insurance
Co. Ltd. Co. Ltd. Ltd Co. Ltd.
Delta has the highest fixed asset turnover ratio with 5.9:1. National and Progressive are also doing
really well with ratio of 4.5:1 and 4.4:1. Eastern has the lowest FAT ratio with less than 1 being
.94:1. (See Appendix Table-4)
Total Liabilities
Debt/Equity=
Total shareholders’ equity
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Debt-Equity ratio
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2014
0.300
0.250
0.200
0.150
0.100
0.050
0.000
National Delta Life Eastern Guardian Meghna Popular Pragati Life Prime Progressive Sandhani
Life Insurance Insurance Life Life Life Insurance Islami Life Life Life
Insurance Co Ltd. Co. Ltd. Insurance Insurance Insurance Ltd Insurance Insurance Insurance
Co. Ltd. Ltd. Co. Ltd. Ltd Co. Ltd.
Companies like Delta, Popular and Pragati have really debt to equity ratio which indicates their
financial leverage and capacity to pay their debts easily. Whereas companies like Eastern and
National Life Insurance will have tough time repaying their debts. (See Appendix Table-5)
EPS
This is the single most important factor while judging a company in terms of profitability. It
indicates how much profit a company makes against each outstanding share. It is widely used
metric due to its ease of understanding. A higher earning per share refers that investors will receive
more return against their investment.
EPS
7
6.243
6.129 6.134 6.159
6.151
5.942 6.01 5.992
6 5.655 5.753
5.595.570
5.382 5.289 5.338
5.15
5 4.67 4.590
4.447
4.104
3.747 3.831
4 3.61 3.53 3.613 3.495
3.36
2.901 2.914 3.104
2.803 2.883 2.70 2.794
3 2.52
2.215
1.997 1.978
2 1.573
1.257
1.006 1.005
1
0.262 0.059
0
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
National Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Delta Life Insurance Co Ltd. Eastern Insurance Co. Ltd.
Guardian Life Insurance Ltd. Meghna Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Popular Life Insurance
Pragati Life Insurance Ltd Prime Islami Life Insurance Ltd Progressive Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Sandhani Life Insurance
When it comes to earning per share Pragati Life Insurance and Meghna Life Insurance, both comes
close in the top. Popular is not lagging far behind them. Sandhani is providing with the lowest EPS
of 1.006 taka per share. (See Appendix Table-6)
Share Price
This is the market indicator of an individual company. In this case, price of all company is on the
basis of Dhaka Stock Exchange. The base price is 10 and it fluctuates from there based on the
performance of the company. If a company’s performance is good, the share prices just keeps
rising.
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Share Price
250.000
200.000
150.000
100.000
50.000
0.000
National Delta Life Eastern Meghna Popular Pragati Life Prime Progressive Sandhani
Life Insurance Insurance Life Life Insurance Islami Life Life Life
Insurance Co Ltd. Co. Ltd. Insurance Insurance Ltd Insurance Insurance Insurance
Co. Ltd. Co. Ltd. Ltd Co. Ltd.
National Life Insurance is the king of the Insurance stock market with 148.2 Taka share price at
the latest year 2018. Delta, Popular and Pragati is also doing really well in the market with their
stock price hovering around the hundred mark in Dhaka Stock Exchange. But, Sandhani and
Eastern is struggling really to survive in the market with respective share price of 25.9 and 27
Taka. (See Appendix Table-7)
Delta Life Insurance has the highest P/E ratio with 29.303 winning the market while Eastern Life
Insurance has the lowest P/E ratio of 7.48. (See Appendix Table-8)
Dividend Yield
This gives a clear indication on how much return one is going to get at the fiscal year-end against
one’s investment. Dividend is the portion of the income of a company that is paid at the end of a
certain period to its stockholders; managed and decided by the company’s board of directors at the
annual general meeting.
Annual Dividend
Dividend Yield=
Share Price
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Dividend Yield
Sandhani Life Insurance
0.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000 7.000 8.000 9.000
2014 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Eastern and Sandhani are providing the highest dividend yield to their customers with respective
6.44% and 6.43%. But companies like National and Delta aren’t really supporting their
stockholders well with a poor dividend yield ratio of 1.4% and 2.3%. (See Appendix Table-9)
Market Capitalization
It refers to the total market worth of a company in money terms. This is done by calculating the
total value of all the outstanding market shares.
Market Capitalization
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
National and Delta Life Insurance companies are leading in the race of market cap or total market
value with respectively 1608 crore and 1358 crore Taka. They combined have almost 70% of the
total market share. (See Appendix Table-10)
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Capital Gain
Dividend Yield
It is safe to say these companies are performing well in the market for their stockholders. Also,
companies with high market capital like National and Delta are surely in for the long run. But
there are some companies who might lose their position in the market due to their financial
instability like Prime Life Insurance having less than 1 in quick ratio. Some companies have
really low share price in the market which may lead to distract customers from buying their
shares.
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References
Alo, J. (2020). Bangladesh: most underinsured nation. Retrieved 9 April 2020, from
https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/bangladesh-most-underinsured-nation-1674145
Besley, S., & Brigham, E. (2008). Essentials of managerial finance. Mason, OH: Thomson/South-
western.
Mishkin, F. (2010). Financial markets, institutions, and money (9th ed.). New York: HarperCollins
college publ.
Reilly, F., Brown, K., & Leeds, S. Investment analysis & portfolio management.
Rejda, G., & McNamara, M. (2017). Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, Global
Edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Canada.
National Life Insurance Co. Ltd. 0.194 0.20 0.19 0.18 0.17
Delta Life Insurance Co Ltd. 0.055 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.05
Eastern Insurance Co. Ltd. 0.26563 0.24 0.25 0.27 0.24
Guardian Life Insurance Ltd. - 0.10 0.08 0.09 0.12
Meghna Life Insurance Co. Ltd. 0.069 0.06 0.06 0.08 0.08
Popular Life Insurance 0.033 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.01
Pragati Life Insurance Ltd 0.069 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.05
Prime Islami Life Insurance Ltd 0.181 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.08
Progressive Life Insurance Co. 0.154 0.17 0.16 0.12 0.09
Ltd.
Sandhani Life Insurance 0.075 0.10 0.07 0.06 0.09
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