Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Term insurance policy provides a stated benefit only upon the holder's death, provided the death occurs within the policy period. There will be no stated benefits if the policy holder outlives the policy period.
Endowment Plus is a unit-linked product that offers investment-cum-insurance during the term of the policy.
Indian tax laws offer start-ups ways to save taxes.
This was the one Budget that required radical departures on all these fronts, when it had none, asserts, Shreekant Sambrani.
Securities Exchange Board of India chairman C B Bhave, and Insurance Regulatory Authority of India chief J Harinarayan had separate meetings with finance secretary Ashok Chawla on Monday over the ongoing tussle between the two regulators over equity-linked insurance schemes.
Buyers of unit-linked insurance policies can now heave a sigh of relief. The insurance regulator, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has issued a standard format that will simplify things for the policyholder and arrest the rampant mis-selling.
Irda's advertisement is silent about the High cost of Ulips that all Investors should know.
Insurance regulator IRDA's new guidelines protecting unit-linked insurance product holders from mis-selling by dealers and onerous commissions will come into effect from Wednesday and are likely to make the equity-linked instruments more investor-friendly.
Insurance agents of all life insurance companies selling unit linked insurance plans will now show rate of returns ranging between 6 and 10 per cent to customers.
After setting stiff norms for unit-linked insurance plans, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority is planning to cap charges on traditional products within three months.
Development officers and agents of LIC are promoting Money Plus claiming to offer astronomical returns
After trying to reform unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips), the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) is now turning its attention to the protection of policyholders.
insurance firms need to look at solutions like co-payment to help reduce their rising losses.
The Sebi-Irda tussle will change Ulips forever. What it means for millions of investors.
Here's a quick look at the likely changes proposed for selling unit linked insurance plans from September 1, 2010 and how they will impact investors.
The Finance Minister has come out with a broad roadmap aimed at regaining the confidence of investors in the Indian economy.
It came on the back of tepid dispatches in the March quarter as consumer sentiment took a knocking, owing to uncertainty ahead of the general election.
As the advertising onslaught grows in the tax season it is important to understand what ULIPs really are. InvestmentYogi presents a quick guide to understanding ULIPs.
Buyers of unit-linked insurance plans may soon find it easier to compare features and charges of these products across companies, with life insurers deciding to standardise the product.
Metal prices from copper to aluminum and tin have shot up by about 7-32 per cent in the past three months.
Insurance regulator IRDA today said it will not tweak its proposed guidelines on unit-linked insurance products (ULIPs) even as the industry fears that the norms, to be effective from next month, could squeeze their profits in short term.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Priya Nair tells you how you can use technology to invest better and maximise returns.
Insurance and investment are two different needs. Then, there are Ulip pension plans with no sum assured. No wonder, there is confusion.
The government on Monday said that the two regulators, the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, have agreed to maintain the status quo that existed before market regulator's ban on 14 life insurers from raising funds for unit-linked schemes.
The Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority has capped the charges from the fifth year to around four per cent of the annual premium paid.
Prudential ICICI's managing director, Shikha Sharma, talks about how the journey has been so far and also why she thinks unit-linked insurance plans are the best allocators of long-term funds.
From its March 2020 low, Bitcoin has gained a massive 474 per cent and has surged 214 per cent year-to-date.
A same sex couple has moved the Delhi high court seeking they be allowed to get married under the Special Marriage Act, saying they have been living together as a couple for eight years, in love with each other sharing the highs and lows of life, but unable marry as they are both women. A similar plea has been moved by two men, who got married in the United States, but their marriage was not registered under the Foreign Marriage Act of 1969 by the Indian consulate as they were a same sex couple.
The prices will be decided during the time of launch, as TVS hopes that given the cost increase, the government may consider bringing down GST for two-wheelers.
Investors are divided on their opinions about the ULIP plans. This article is the first in the series that discuss ULIPs in detail.
Sebi is locked in a turf battle with insurance regulator IRDA over who has jurisdiction over ULIPs.
'If I close my housing loan, are there any investment avenues (the investment should provide liquidity) to save tax?'
A day after the finance ministry brokered a truce between two financial sector regulators, Sebi on Tuesday said any new ULIP scheme launched after April 9, 2010 by insurance companies will remain covered by its earlier ban order.
SoftBank-backed Ola Electric took the wraps off its maiden e-scooter offerings -- Ola S1 and S1 Pro -- for a commercial launch on Sunday. With prices starting from Rs 99,999 (excluding state government incentives, registration fee, and insurance cost), the Bhavesh Aggarwal-founded firm said the e-scooters are designed and engineered in India for the world and will deliver the best scooter experience to the consumer. He suggested that after 2025, sale of petrol-powered two-wheelers should not be allowed.
Income from distribution of third-party products such as insurance policies and mutual fund schemes is already under pressure because of the unfavourable economic climate.
Suuti's merchant bankers give proposal; deal value could be Rs 2,800 crore
The Code on Social Security, 2020 gives a lot of comfort to gig firms which recognise cab drivers or food delivery executives as 'independent contractors' who directly do business with customers with the help of their digitised platforms.
