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Company · Analysis · 29 Oct 2026
Popular Life Insurance: a life fund that has shrunk from BDT 22.9bn to BDT 13.8bn as maturities outrun a falling premium book
Gross premium fell to BDT 5.01bn in 2025, back to its 2017 level, while maturity claims of BDT 4.20bn took claims to 90.3% of premium. The life fund fell in 6 of the last 8 years and the Q3 2026 deficit of BDT 1,320.6m took it to BDT 13.82bn. EPS fell to BDT 1.47; the board kept a 20% cash dividend. The auditor qualified the 2025 accounts over cash commission payments and outstanding premium.

Popular Life Insurance PLC (Popular Life) is a Bangladeshi life insurer that sells individual savings policies, many of them Islamic (takaful) and micro-premium plans, through a commissioned field force. It has two subsidiaries, Popular Life Securities Limited and PLI Asset Management Limited. In 2025 it…

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Company · DSE:SUNLIFEINS · Life insurance · Analysis · 29 Oct 2026
Sunlife Insurance: gross premium of BDT 186.7m in 2025 and a life fund of BDT 533.7m, both the lowest of seven years
Gross premium fell 21.5% in 2025 after a 69.5% fall in 2024. The life fund was BDT 533.7m at Dec-2025 and BDT 469.4m at Sep-2026 (DSE-announced). The auditor's report carries three emphasis of matter paragraphs and states the opinion is not modified; the board recommended no dividend for 2025.

Sunlife Insurance Company Limited (Sunlife) is a public company limited by shares that came into operation on 30 May 2000 under a licence from the Chief Controller of Insurance. It is mainly engaged in individual life, Islamic individual life and group life insurance and also…

Company · DSE:SONALILIFE · Life insurance · Analysis · 29 Oct 2026
Sonali Life Insurance: a young life fund of BDT 9.0bn now paying out maturities of BDT 2.9bn a year, with BDT 1.1bn of legacy receivables in court
Gross premium rose 8.3% to BDT 8.66bn in 2025 and the life fund grew 11.3% to BDT 8.96bn, but maturity claims reached BDT 2.86bn and the fund fell by BDT 40.0m in Q3 2026. BDT 5.31bn sits in one product with five banks, BDT 3.89bn of it at one bank. A BDT 1,098.4m receivable from before 2023 is unreconciled and under legal recovery.

Sonali Life Insurance Company Limited (Sonali Life) is a Bangladeshi life insurer incorporated in July 2013 and registered with the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) the same month. It listed on the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges after a public issue in June 2021.…

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