LIC to invest Rs 10k cr by March 2010

The country's largest insurer LIC on Tuesday said it will pump in about Rs 10,000-crore in the stock markets by March-end, taking its annual equity investment to Rs 60,000 crore this fiscal. LIC's investment in the equity market so far has already crossed Rs 50,000 crore and expect to close the fiscal (2009-10) with an investment of Rs 55,000-60,000 crore. During 2008-09, LIC invested Rs 40,300 crore in the equity market, Mr Mohanraj said. This fund infusion in the market by the country's biggest domestic financial institution boosted the sentiment at bourses, which witnessed volatility, especially after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in America in 2008.