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ANALYTICAL STUDY OF MERGER AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA

 

ABSTRACT : This project is divided into different stages for ease of references of simplification of analysis which goes as follows: The introduction of mergers and acquisition, the background of the study which state the different problems that brought about mergers and acquisition which are the inability to settle claims, bad eggs in the industry, inability to bring up better services and innovative ideas that can enable the industry grow. Insurance has not been able to get to the rural area, it makes insurance non-popular profession that one must study, but since it has failed in this area, the common man find it difficult to know what insurance is all about. In order for the industry to stop the liquidation in the industry, the body called the insurance commission now brought about the means of mergers and acquisition to improve and uplift the industry to have an outstanding and stronger insurance in Nigeria, and I concluded that mergers will help the reliability and growth of insurance companies in Nigeria and also help them to settle claims. Finally I recommended that government should give more power to the commission of insurance to enable them carryout the task effectively in the country.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER ONE

1.0  INTRODUCTION                                               1    

1. Background of the Study                                         1
2. Statement of the Problems                               4
3. Objective of the Study                                      5
4. Research Questions                                          6
5. Significance of the Study                                         6
6. Scope and Limitation of the Study                     7
7. Definition of Terms                                          8

CHAPTER TWO

2.0  REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE                     10

1. Overview                                                        10
2. Why Mergers and Acquisitions                                  11
3. Methods of Mergers and Acquisitions                  15
4. Types of Mergers and Acquisitions                      17
5. Statutory Provision for Mergers and Acquisitions  20  
6. Impact and Role of Government Bodies on

Mergers and Acquisitions                                         24  

1. Benefits of Mergers and Acquisitions                   25  
2. References                                                      27

 

CHAPTER THREE

3.0  RESEARCH METHODOLOGY                               28

1. Sources of Data                                               28
2. Population of the Study                                    29
3. Sample Size                                                    29
4. The Questionnaire                                            31
5. Validity and Reliability of the Instrument                    33

 

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0  SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION         34

1. Summary of Findings                                       34
2. Discussion of Findings                                      34

 

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0  CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS                    37

1. Conclusion                                                      37
2. Recommendations                                           40

 

Bibliography                                                    42

Appendix  I                                                     44

Appendix II                                                     45

 

 

CHAPTER ONE

 

INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Merger is involved with the combination of two different companies to form one entity with the intension of achieving particular goal. While acquisition takes place when one company purchase the assets of another and inherits its liabilities.

Mergers and acquisition was introduced into insurance industry due to their: INABILITY TO SETTLE CLAIMS; since the taste of a good insurance transaction lies in the manner in which claim is being handled by the industry, but majority of our insurance industries have failed due to lack of fund to settle or compensate their insured. And this leads to cost of disputes between the insurance and their policyholder and this area has impinge more on the image of an insurer and the insurance industry as a whole because most of the industries cajole their insured into paying premium when due, but slow down when it comes to paying claims. Reasons is because most of the industries don’t have sufficient funds or the investments that fetch money to enable them settle their clients, but rather formulates a thing or the other to wave the settlements. This has brought a bad name to insurance company as a whole as people call them name like selfish lots, sets a legalized cheats is a useless exercise to insure in Nigeria and that their clauses are hardly explained to clients while setting policies.

INABILITY TO BRING UP BETTER SERVICE AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS: The industry have not been able to encourage some new ideas/methods of operation that will enable the industry remain competitive and strong. Since there are still some rural areas where insurance has not touched, the industry has failed by not educating the common man of what insurance is all about and the benefits, for  instance, most of our tertiary institution don’t know insurance as a cause to study all because they feel the industry is full of fraudulent people. In village, they know nothing about insurance (ie.  to them such thing never exists) and some of them has never heard such words for the first time, infact most of our up-coming students look down on it as a course to study due to lack of knowledge.

INABILITY TO ELIMINATE BAD EGGS (IE. BAD AGENTS POOR MANAGEMENT): Most of the insurance agents are the bad eggs that should be eliminated. Some of the agents are not insurance agents they claim to be, but because of the money they are making from the business and this lead them to establish a mushroom insurance company without license in order to dupe people the more. This acts give bad name to the industry. Furthermore, most of the sole called managers, underwriters, brokers etc. lack basic academic and professional insurance knowledge, and as a result they do not contribute meaningful to the operations of the industry.

 

1.2  STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The subject matter of the research work borders on “Analytical study of mergers and acquisition in the Nigerian industry”. Below are some problem areas associated with the study;

1. Effect of the possessive attitude of Nigerians to share even the whole business – “what I have hold syndrome”.
2. Effect of the complicated, cumbersome and expensiveness or procedure of mergers and acquisition which serves as legal vehicle for companies reconstructions.
3. Effect of double requirement of a majority in number and value for the approval of a scheme of arrangement.
4. Effect of the resource to the use of unorthodox means against dealing with directors who will be seeking to take away other people’s business instead of minding their own business.

The share capital base of insurance industry is as follows:

1. Life assurance               -      N2 billion
2. General insurance   -      N3 billion
3. Life and general      -      N5 billion

 

The industry is given effect from February 2007 to meet up with their payments. As a result of this, most of the industries have gone into selling of their stock life shares in order to meet up with the payment to safeguard their company.

 

1.3  OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The major purpose of this study is to find out the possibility (if any) of insurance companies in Nigeria going into mergers and acquisition as an option for the achievement of better utilization of resources and viability of operation. The research will also find out and show weather substantial benefits will accrue both to the shareholder, employee and policyholder respectively, if such mergers and ac

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