Common feature is that domestic companies in BRIC economies have been seeking to enhance their access to supplies of raw materials and moving into new segments of strategic commodities and move up the value chain. Nonetheless, oil and gas and other natural resource-based industries are relatively less prominent in Indian outward FDI compared to that by Brazil and China.
  While the number of life policies enforced increased by 2,977 in 2018, there was a significant 62.5 percent decline in general (non-life) insurance policies compared to 2017 i.e. a reduction of 124,465 policies arising from the transfer of the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) class to the Accident Compensation Commission Fiji (ACCF).