India will allow three major Singapore banks to set-up wholly owned subsidiaries in the country to boost investments as part of the bilateral comprehensive economic cooperation agreement cleared by the cabinet on Monday.
While investing in a low priced micro-SIP may seem like a good idea, one must read the fine print before jumping in.
The Reserve Bank of India is likely to formulate guidelines on outsourcing banking activities by July to improve regulatory oversight for risk management of this segment.
Exposure to commercial projects under lens.
The combined assets under management of the 32 fund houses in the country fell to Rs 5,49,114.82 crore (Rs 5,491.14 billion) in January, against Rs 5,49,942.02 crore (Rs 5,499.42 billion) at the end of December, 2007, latest data available on the website of Association of Mutual Funds in India show.
Mid-cap funds have given three-digit returns -- more than those from benchmark and large-cap funds. But, due to the higher risk they entail, you need to tread with care.
Life insurance companies have yet to see the entry of the younger generation in a big way. This was highlighted by N S Kannan, executive director, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, while launching an insurance product for cancer.
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.
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A total of 25 companies raised Rs 28,220 crore during the financial year.
'Mr Modi has inherited a system that taxes businessmen and fritters the money away over ministries.'
India's 32 mutual fund houses saw an erosion of over Rs 32,200 crore (Rs 322 billion) in their total asset under management last month, with a weak stock market robbing off some shine from their over Rs 5 trillion portfolio.
Reliance Mutual Fund has toppled UTI MF to become the country's largest fund house in January with assets under management of more than Rs 39,000 crore (Rs 390 billion).
The government and the Reserve Bank of India is moving in the right direction to curb the inflationary expectations
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There is never a dull moment in the sporting world and this weekend was no different.
Even optimists suggest a tempering of expectations and there may still be room for a fall.
Life insurance sector in India grew by 41 per cent in 2005-06 due to better performance of country's largest life insurer, LIC, and private players like Bajaj Allianz and ICICI Prudential.
With clients increasingly looking at cost optimisation by passing on the risks to the IT vendors and IT services players demanding longer tenure deals to hedge their risks, a mix of these two factors are giving rise to large deals coming up in the market with a lot of strings attached.
HDFC Life, which posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 281.83 crore (Rs 2.81 billion) for the quarter ended June compared with Rs 11.92 crore (Rs 119.2 million) in corresponding period last year (according to HDFC's first quarter results), has diversified its distribution mix.
Domestic fund houses are of the view that the US Fed's status quo stance on rates is a positive indication for RBI to lower its lending rates.
Retail investors have matured and have moved away from investing in only in-vogue products, says the managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Prudential AMC.
If inflation is robust then interest rates will have to be ra
In addition, he will have to move swiftly to control any damage that may have been caused to the bank's image and investor confidence due to the loan controversy
Worst performers among category funds, but beat sectoral indices
Insurance firms want more clarity before increasing foreign partner's stake.
