Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
V Viswanand, director and head, Products and Persistency Management, Max Life Insurance, will answer your queries in an online chat September 3, between 2 pm and 3 pm.
The insurance giant is unable to sustain its assured return schemes in a falling interest rate regime.
'There is good indication that the economy is bouncing back, but the problem is, we should look at the eight quarters preceding March 2020.' 'The growth had fallen below 3.1% before March 2020.' 'So, the governments must realise that even if you transform the best of green shoots into banyan trees, you see only 3.1% growth.'
The time is ripe for a merger of eight fund houses indirectly owned and controlled by the central government, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
At a poll rally on Monday, Prime Minister Modi said the protests against the new citizenship law in Shaheen Bagh and other areas in New Delhi are not a coincidence but an 'experiment' ('sanyog nahi prayog') and a political conspiracy to destroy the country's harmony. Taking on the PM, Priyanka Gandhi said a report recently said 3.5 crore jobs have been lost in the last five years in seven important sectors.
Six Indian women have made it to Asia's most powerful women list released by Forbes.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
She recited a Kashmiri verse, which was part of a poem by Sahitya Akademi award winner Pandit Dinanath Koul. She rendered the verse in both Kashmiri and Hindi. Besides, the minister quoted woman Tamil poet Avvaiyar, Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, a verse from Raghuvamsa by Kalidasa, as well as late finance minister Arun Jaitley while talking about the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Anil Rego of Right Horizons explains how the new insurance rules will help policy buyers.
Some of the top indebted companies likely to face financial headwinds in the coming quarters include NTPC, PowerGrid, Tata Steel, Adani Power, JSW Steel, UPL, and Steel Authority of India. Together these 201 companies owed Rs 14.9 trillion to their lenders at the end of September 30, 2019, up 4.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) during the first half of FY20.
Not all change is good, but this one is, applauds Shekhar Gupta.
Once decisions are taken to sell stock in certain state-controlled enterprises, there is no reason to not start scheduling sales immediately.
Discrimination between old and new customers have come down after base rate.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
He also pointed out that the home ministry was neither consulted, nor did it give the necessary security clearance
This crisis requires political sophistication and governance skills. This BJP has neither, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The two-day nationwide strike call, demanding early wage revision among other issues, was given by United Forum of Bank Unions that comprises nine national unions.
Both the debt and equity markets have seen sharp volatility in recent months.
According to a research note by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, while foreign institutional investors' holding in Sensex has gone up to the highest level in last eight years, while LIC and domestic MFs were net sellers.
The total value of holdings of domestic institutional investors as a percentage of the value of FII holdings has reached its highest level in four years.
Traditionally, most PSUs have been cash-rich, which added to their value. However, the government has been tapping regularly into their cash resources to boost revenue for the exchequer
Say will take up the issue with the HUL management.
In an online chat with Rediff.com readers, personal finance expert Anil Rego answered queries about the new tax regime announced in the Union Budget.
The solution for railways lay in understanding the strengths of the system,
Public sector insurance major Life insurance Corporation of India hopes to register a total premium income of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) from the Varisth Pension Bima Yojana in 2004-05
Congress termed the raids as highly vindictive and said it is part of "PM Narendra Modi's hate agenda and political vendetta against the Congress and its leaders".
A recent report by Citi had pegged the total amount stuck in stalled projects across seven major Indian cities (Bengaluru, Mumbai Metropolitan region, National Capital Region, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune) at Rs 80,000 crore.
The move is likely to help 4.59 lakh housing units across the country.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Institutional investors have hiked their holding in Reliance Industries Ltd to nearly 29 per cent - highest in about 7 years - as LIC and foreign funds stocked up shares worth Rs 1,000 crore in the last quarter.
The judge posted the matter for argument to May 29 after the CBI sought time to file a reply to the bail pleas by Singh.
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The suggestion comes within days of reports that LIC and the Employee Provident Fund Organisation snapped up the entire Rs 7,400-crore (Rs 74-billion) bond issue of the debt-ridden Air India.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha that is expected to provide relief to the pandemic-hit common man as well as focus more on driving economic recovery through higher spending on healthcare, infrastructure and defence amid rising tensions with neighbours, As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth Budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
Investing in such properties is high-risk proposition, as developers do not have requisite approvals. At a later stage, projects can be delayed or even shelved for lack of funds.
Brace yourselves to shell out more for home loan instalments.
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