Social and Relationship Capital

Establishing Enduring Relationships Built on Trust

At SBI Life, as we go about fulfilling our business goals, we value support of all our stakeholders and have established a strong trust-based relationship with them. Our objective is to deliver excellent service to our customers, engage better with our partners. We endeavour to create shared value by contributing to the well-being of the society. Through our wide range of programmes, we aim to improve the lives of the communities in which we operate.

Material Topics
  • CSR and community development
  • Customer service and satisfaction
  • Human rights
  • Employee and supplier centricity
SDGs Impacted

Customers

Value Created

80.2 million

Inforce Lives

37.9 million

New Lives Covered in FY 2024

96%

Individual Renewal Premium Collected through App

~₹431 billion

Claims Paid to Policyholders and Beneficiaries

Key Highlights of FY 2024

72

Net Promoter Score

99.2%

Death Claim Settlement Ratio (individual and group)

Management Approach Towards the Capital

We are working steadfastly to maximise our positive social impact. We have created meaningful social and relationship capital, while pursuing progress, meeting customers’ needs and driving inclusive growth for communities. Our long-term relationships with customers, partners and communities are based on mutual trust and respect, while our intent is to empower the communities and transforming quality of their lives.

Significant Aspects
  • Customer-centric approach
  • Community support
  • Multi-channel distribution network
Our Evolving, Customer-centric World

Customer satisfaction is at the heart of our operations, and we constantly endeavour to deliver improved experiences to our customers. An improvement in SBI Life’s Net Promoter Score reflects our customers’ growing trust and satisfaction, and also symbolises our commitment to their financial well-being.

We are driven by customer-first approach with easy onboarding, simplified products & faster, and hassle-free claim settlement experience to our customers. We are committed to delivering a comprehensive range of innovative insurance solutions that provide financial security and peace of mind to our customers.

Our insurance solutions are tailored to effectively address the existing and evolving needs of our customers. We offer a wide range of traditional, unit-linked products, protection and retirement solutions that cater to diverse demographics and income levels.

Key Initiatives 24x7 Inbound Customer Care Support

SBI Life is India’s first private life insurance company to have an extensive customer care support which aligns with our commitment in enriching customer experience. It provides technical assistance with products, addresses their insurance needs and queries at their convenience about their purchases or experiences.

How does it benefit
  • Capacity to handle ~13 lakh calls annually
  • An impressive 94.47% of calls are addressed within initial 10 seconds
  • Interactive Voice Response System has 13 self-service options
  • 91% of callers assisted by IVRS have given positive feedback for the system
Creating New Value by Improving Service Delivery
Reduction in Issuance TAT

19%

Non-Medical

9%

Medical


Conversion in Individual Policies

92.50%

FY 2024

91.05%

FY 2023


Percentage of Policies Issued within 0-2 Days

76.35%

FY 2024

71.43%

FY 2023


Robust Collection Efficiency

89.30%

FY 2024

88.30%

FY 2023


13th Month Persistency

86.78%

FY 2024

85.52%

FY 2023


61st Month
Persistency

58.55%

FY 2024

55.60%

FY 2023


Overall Death Claim Settlement

99.17%

FY 2024

98.39%

FY 2023


Living Benefit Settlement

99.66%

FY 2024

99.63%

FY 2023


Improvement in NPS score

72

FY 2024

59

FY 2023


Always Customer-First

We are dedicated to augmenting customer experience through a wide range of initiatives that serves all their needs and preferences. By optimising several of our processes, we improved our operational efficiencies and offered exceptional services, through faster integration of advanced technologies and digital solutions.

Contact Centre
  • Efficient assistance on Toll Free number 14.5 lakh inbound interactions
  • Self-Service Options on IVRS 3.15 lakh interactions
  • IVR services received 91% positive customer feedback
Missed Call Service
  • Having a total of 7 Missed Call services to serve diverse needs of customers 58.63 lakh customers availed these services 38% growth vs previous year
WhatsApp Service
  • Service-On-Demand enables customers to access information on proposals and policies proactively
  • Conversational AI chatbot for corporate website and Smart App for customer support 11.8 million times customers served using WhatsApp 3.8 million WhatsApp registration
Avenues for Customer Onboarding

Mconnect

NPS Parivartan

YONO Branch Portal

Smart Care

Parivartan

Nurturing and engaging customers through:
  • Sharing personalised product videos
  • Simplifying autopay mandate for SBI accounts
  • Managing customer communication
  • Awareness campaigns on mail, SMS and social media
  • Communicating with members enrolled under YONO Insta Life Secure
  • Calls around key policy milestones
  • Personalised messages on important milestones in preferred language
Focus on Customer Retention

As part of revival campaign, we share personalised videos with the targeted policyholders to explain the key benefits of the policies and the revival process. In addition, we also provide them with embedded links to submit the online revival request and the revival quote. With this, the conversion rates of the revival campaign improved significantly.

21.8%

Share of Eligible Lapsed Policy Base Revived

641.7 crore

Total Renewal Premium Collection from Revival Campaign

Initiatives to improve customer onboarding
  • Medical anytime, anywhere
  • Guidelines on financial underwriting
  • Revamping policy documents
  • Enhancing Insta PIV
  • Adopting increased e-insurance
  • Optimising journeys for Regional Rural Banks
  • Improving customer communication
  • Providing SMS and bitly link
  • Complying with mandatory FATCA
Persistency Ratio13th Month Persistency
Persistency Ratio61st Month Persistency
Surrender Ratio
Unfair Business Practices (%)
New Business Premium Product Mix (%)
Embracing a Customer-led Transformation

Customer Surveys

Net Promoter Score and Awareness Programmes

ISO 10002:2018 Certification

On Customer Satisfaction Management System

6 per 10,000 Policies

Grievance to new policies reduced from 0.20% in FY 2023 to 0.13% in FY 2024

Next-generation Digital Technologies

  • Artificial Intelligence (Al)
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analytics

Website and Customer Communication

In Vernacular Languages


Key Goals for FY 2025
  • Providing a wide array of innovative solutions with a customer-centric approach
  • Enabling a platform to make customer journeys even more seamless and at the click of a button
  • Expanding market reach and accessibility for customers
  • Identifying prospective customers, adopting smarter onboarding and faster system integration
  • Delivering faster and more personalised customer service and ensuring comprehensive customer support

Partners

Value Created
  • Set up newer platforms and added new features to existing platforms to make need-based selling seamless
  • Rolled out 16 new and refiled products
  • Enabled Grievance Redressal for IA and Smart Advisor updates and EIA dashboard through Smart Advisor
  • Launched personalised website for 42,000+ LMs pan India
  • Launched Banca Online 3.0 with intuitive interface, making navigation smoother and even more user-friendly
  • As part of Predictive Analytics, launched 30 live data models across policy lifecycle to support distributors
  • Launched Mconnect PWA and Revamp; Integrated Mconnect with campaign products and NASA
  • Enabled Partner Portal, a single platform for all partners enabling seamless new partner integration
  • 246,000+ individual agents
  • 1,040 offices with strong distribution channels
Key Highlights of FY 2024 Our unparalleled multi-channel distribution network
Bancassurance

27,000

SBI and RRB Bank Branches

58%

Share in NOPs

34%

Share of New Business Premium in Industry

5%

Growth in Protection Business

67 lakhs

SBI Life's Productivity per Branch with 58,000 CIFs

99.7%

Business Sourced Digitally

Agency

246,000+

No. of Agents

35%

Share in NOPs

32%

NBP Share in Private Insurance Market

99.7%

Business Sourced Digitally

2.4 lakhs

Agent Productivity on NBP Basis

9.2 million

Uploads on Smart Advisor

Institutional Alliance

14,000+

Partner Branches

77

Corporate Agents

143

Brokers

32%

Growth in NPS

10,300+

Specified Persons

Airtel, Insurance Dekho

Major Tie-ups

Direct and Corporates

Top 3

In Industry and in Fund Business

Dedicated call centre

For Website Sales and Servicing

Multi-linguistic website

To Make Buying Easier (in 9 languages)

Lead management ecosystem

  • Assignment
  • Nurturing
  • Monitoring
Our Multi-channel Distribution Network

Through our extensive and diversified distribution network, we continue to amplify our market reach and customer accessibility. Our wide and extensive distribution network provides us with a competitive advantage and enables customer engagement. Our strong partnerships with renowned banks and their branch network further enhance our distribution capabilities, while our synergy with our distribution partners and strategic cross-selling initiatives help us achieve better market penetration and ensure comprehensive customer support.

  • Having a ubiquitous distribution network of bancassurance channels, individual agents and brokers across India
  • Seamlessly integrating with partners, ensuring balance between costs, revenue and business growth
  • Aiming to optimise the potential of every distribution channel through upskilling initiatives and regular training sessions
Strengthening our Distribution Network
New Business Premium
Number of Distributors/Agents
Number of CIFs
Number of Specified Persons
Number of Brokers
Number of Corporate Agents
Expanding Distribution Leveraging Digital Technology
Mconnect Life
  • A mobile-based application enabling sales representatives to sell SBI Life policies digitally
Mconnect PWA
  • A desktop/device-agnostic application for assisting partner bank sales forces in selling policies through a user-friendly desktop interface
Smart Advisor Plus
  • A mobile/desktop application that provides sales force and operations teams access to key business data, customer details, product information, premium details and various reports, enhancing their efficiency
Banca Online Portal
  • Ensuring seamless transition of business and provide necessary details at their fingertips through digital integration
Increasing Partnerships

We engage in strategic partnerships with reputed financial institutions and banks to expand the insurance market across India, reach a wider audience and ensure accessibility to our insurance products across diverse markets. Through these partnerships, our aim is to increase our market reach, strengthen our footprint and expand our distribution network. In FY 2024, we entered into strategic partnerships with State Bank of Sikkim, Insurance Dekho, Airtel and Zopper.

Key Goals for FY 2025
  • Engaging in strategic alliances with business associates, banks and distribution channels and exploring strategic cross-selling initiatives
  • Equipping partners with the right resources to enhance market penetration
  • Engaging with valuable partnerships with renowned banks and leveraging their branch network to enhance distribution capabilities
  • Exploring smarter ways of onboarding partners and enabling faster system integration
  • Establishing strategic partnerships with focussed channels and enhancing digital platforms catering to customers’ evolving preferences

Communities

Value Created

105,000+

CSR Beneficiaries

15 million

Lives Covered in Social Sector

Engaging for the Common Good

At SBI Life, we engage with communities, contributing to their social and economic development through responsible business practices and community initiatives. Our social initiatives are aimed at empowering and transforming communities we operate within, while improving the lives of the underserved, tribal and rural communities, with special emphasis on women and youth. SBI Life has a CSR policy and a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Despite geographical challenges, we successfully implemented over 30 CSR projects across India, in collaboration with NGO partners.

Key Focus Areas in CSR
Healthcare
Education

Key Initiatives in CSR
Education

Quality education enables individuals to develop cognitive abilities, analytical skills and progressive approach towards the world.

However, owing to financial constraints, in India it is quite challenging for many children to gain access to education. Through our CSR initiatives, we ensure access and continuity of education to over 3,000 underprivileged children.

Key Support Provided

Area of focus

Education, nutrition and overall development of under-privileged children

Infrastructure

Supporting infrastructure development

What the initiative entails

Assistance for children’s school fees, teacher’s compensation, educational material, supplementary education, nutrition and extra-curricular activities

Special education, therapeutic services and training to visually challenged, mentally and differently-abled children; parent counselling and training to ensure strong home support system

Development of school premises, hostels, playgrounds, classrooms, digital equipment for building smart classrooms, sanitation facilities, kitchen facilities, transport facilities to schools in rural areas

Region-wise Initiatives
West Bengal

Supported education and holistic development of 300+ children affected by or belonging to families suffering from Leprosy

Tamil Nadu

Supported 1,200+ children from orphan, single parent, tribal children, children affected by HIV AIDS or poor conditions to ensure continuance in formal education

Jharkhand

Enabled access to STEM learning and digital classrooms to 200+ students from the under-privileged sections

Success Story
Shaping a better future for herself

Fighting against all odds, Mala completed her education till Class 12, but due to extreme poverty, her future was uncertain although she was determined to work hard. With support provided by SBI Life, she was enrolled into the General Nursing Midwifery course at Rastogi College of Nursing. Even while challenges of a different language and English syllabus presented hurdles, with perseverance and support from teachers, she wrote her exams and scored an impressive 72%, and today, works at the renowned Shanti Memorial Hospital.

Livelihood

Through our Livelihood programme, we reached out to 1,000+ beneficiaries empowering them with skill-sets that enhance their employability. The programme not only disseminates technical aspects of vocation and trades but also focusses on teaching financial literacy, market linkages, communication skills, and accounting, thereby fostering entrepreneurship development.

Success Story
Journey to new opportunities

After his father expired, Amar Kumar faced huge financial challenges, but hindered by limited academic qualifications, he struggled to find employment. He then enrolled in "Basic Computer Applications" training programme supported by SBI Life. Upon completion of the rigorous three-month, he secured a job as a Computer Operator/Cashier at Apna Mart, with a decent monthly package. Today, he is the beacon of hope for his family and provides the means to fulfil their cherished dreams and aspirations.

Healthcare

The primary aim of our CSR focus is to provide quality healthcare services to economically marginalised groups. Our support includes bearing the cost of medical treatment, developing medical infrastructure and promoting preventive healthcare measures.

90,000

No. of Lives Positively Impacted Through Healthcare Initiatives

250+

Medical Camps Conducted in Collaboration with Different NGO Partners

Key Healthcare Initiatives
Safe and Hygienic Residential Facilities

Supported operational expenses of safe and hygienic residential facilities for children undergoing cancer treatment in North-East. Over 500 children and their parents/care-takers benefitted from this initiative.

Reducing prevalence of malnutrition

Reached 60,000+ pregnant and lactating mothers, and children up to 5 years of age in Rajasthan (Baran district) and Madhya Pradesh (Dhar district), with the aim of improving health of mothers and new-born children.

Providing artificial limbs and callipers

Supported 370 individuals and rehabilitating them by providing them with artificial limbs and callipers. These devices are crucial in replicating functionality of natural limbs, enabling beneficiaries to regain mobility, pursue personal aspirations and contribute actively to the society.

Success Story
Saving a child’s life with timely medical care

Baby Akhila was born with congenital respiratory distress and multiple other health complexities, which affected her breathing, swallowing, and other activities. Within 12 days of being born, she was hospitalised for an emergency treatment, which left her family with the financial burden of bearing the treatment expenses. With SBI Life’s assistance, she not only received the necessary medical care and survived, she also persevered for 24 days and emerging as a true fighter in this journey.

Rural Sector New Policies Issued in Rural Sector (in ₹ 000)
New Business Premium Underwritten in Rural Sector (in ₹ crore)
Social Sector New Policies Issued in Social Sector (in '000)
Premium Underwritten in Social Sector
(in ₹ crore)
Key Goals for FY 2025
  • Uplifting marginalised communities through initiatives in education, healthcare, livelihood and environment
  • Empowering individuals around business operations and supporting causes that matter to make a positive impact on the society
  • Safeguarding and securing individuals’ financial future through financial literacy initiatives
  • Adopting responsible business practices and providing insurance solutions to the unorganised sector and implementing diverse social impact initiatives
  • Creating a sustainable and inclusive environment with key focus on society and sustainability