In Jan’ 2015, almost a year back diversified firm Max India spin off plan were announced management indicated it is splitting listed entity into three companies with the existing firm becoming India’s first listed company with insurance as the sole business.
The Max India Group is a multi-business corporate, the listed entity has following primary business
- Life Insurance – As a 74: 26Joint venture with Mitsui Sumitomo of Japan
- Max healthcare – Operating as equal JV with Life group of South Africa
- Health Insurance – As a 74: 26 Joint venture with BUPA of UK
- Antara – 100% owned retirement living real estate venture
- Max specialty Films – 100% owned
Last year the conglomerate began a demerger exercise which will result in listed company being spilt into three listed companies as per below
Source – Investor presentation, Nov 2015
In this brief post we try and examine if the sum of parts would be greater or lesser than the current M-cap, Let’s go to the drawing board.
Max Financial services – The largest piece of the spun off entity is a well-established life insurance provider in India. Life Insurance is a crowded place in India were on one hand we … Read the rest