If you are diagnosed with a critical disease, then its treatment would be very expensive and may require intensive care and hospitalisation which your comprehensive insurance plan may not cover. In such type of cases you have to pay the cost of the whole treatment.
LIC identifies the problems well, but what the markets will watch is how nimble it is with the solutions.
HDFC Life has a balance between traditional policies and Ulips
Add a term plan with a child mutual fund for best results.
The exploration company will buy back shares from January 23 and extinguish them.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'There is no need to do anything, let your SIPs get deducted every month, and stick to your allocation between equity, fixed income and emergency funds and your risk covers.'
Investment experts said the key to generating superior returns was "asset allocation" and taking money out of the table from themes that have performed well and into themes that are available at a discount.
Despite uncertain times and market volatility ahead, investors should continue with their disciplined investing via SIPs.
During the current financial year, 25 companies have raised Rs 28,220 crore through IPOs
Zee and its lenders had decided to enter into an agreement to not offload the pledged shares amid a sharp slide in the prices of the underlying securities during end-Janury. The terms give the lenders a greater say, upside benefit from the proposed strategic sale, more cover and personal guarantee.
Given its focus on the real estate sector, financial planners feel this scheme is not meant for first-time investors and any investor should only have 5 to 10 per cent exposure to this fund.
Market watchers believe that the change in guidelines fly in the face of some of the recent initiatives taken by the government, such as easing norms for foreign portfolio investors.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries and ITC were the top losers along with ICICI Bank and SBI
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
No fund houses could muster the courage to launch equity funds during the period and the sector lost a lot of its equity assets.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Exodus of top managers an unintended side effect of roaring MF industry
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Given the macro setting, the outlook remains positive for each of the four key parameters - inflation, current account deficit, fiscal deficit and currency stability, says Rahul Bhushkute.
The National Stock Exchange's proposed IPO to raise Rs 10,000 crore this year is expected to see the largest ever PE exit, of around Rs 5,000 crore.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
While stocks are at cheap valuations, the volatility can be unnerving.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.5% each
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Chief Investment Officer of Prudential ICICI, Nilesh Shah discusses the current situation of the market in terms of inflows, valuations and the general consensus on the market.
Unfavourable secondary market conditions aren't a big concern for IPOs by good quality companies.
These numbers show overall exposure and are not a reflection that all loans are going to be impacted.
The BSE Sensex lost about 1,600 points, while the National Stock Exchange Nifty was down about 400 points.
Three closed-ended equity schemes have been launched in the past month or so and another is set to open soon for subscription.
Market breadth is positive with 942 advances and 196 declines.
Balanced funds may be a good option for first-time investors.
Over 700,000 new investor accounts have been opened so far in FY15.
Collectively, the pack of 12 has posted a 50 per cent rise in profits -- Rs 25,685 crore. On a quarter-on-quarter basis (that is, September over June), the rise is 68 per cent. Public sector banks have never had such a stellar performance, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
A day after Prudential bought out AIG's Asia arm, AIA, top executives of both AIG and Tata AIG met the Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority to keep the latter abreast of developments.Sources at Tata Sons told Business Standard they had decided to buy out AIG's stake in the life insurance business. And, would consider inducting a partner at a later stage.
The hard truth is that unless you start investing for your children in advance, in appropriate investment avenues, you are risking their future aspirations.
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