G Murlidhar, MD and CEO, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company explains how to make smart financial decisions for better gains.
In this financial year so far, insurance companies have invested around Rs 36,000 crore in the stock markets against around Rs 60,000 crore invested by the FIIs.
Insurance companies will have more infrastructure firms in their equity investment portfolio soon.
Given the many policy areas where the Centre and the states have not been seeing eye to eye in the last few years, it is time the Modi government convenes a meeting of the Inter-State Council, recommends A K Bhattacharya.
Since it began commercial operations from October six for six days a week, the train has maintained a tight schedule.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and discussed issues related to the Maratha reservation, pending GST compensation and the proposed Metro car shed in Kanjur.
While a DFI will help banks derisk their loan portfolios, creation of a bad bank will clean up their balance sheets.
Members of Parliament, state legislatures, and local governments not eligible to be members of PSB boards
In terms of stock selection, India continues to benefit from two phenomena - the big getting bigger and availability of quality stocks in relative abundance compared with its Asian peers.
The policy features a combined death benefit to be paid upon the death of the single insured that more than doubles the previous record, Guinness said in a statement.
Most customers still don't understand this concept and are unable to benefit from it.
'The shadow banks are currently facing a liquidity and solvency crisis.' 'The danger is that it could potentially engulf the entire financial system because shadow banks have borrowed huge amount of money from banks, mutual funds, pension funds, and insurance companies.'
Insurance companies now offer to cover funeral expenses under health and personal accident policy.
While your insurer will help you open an e-insurance account at the time of buying a policy, existing policyholders must do so themselves
More than half a dozen life insurance companies -- that are operating for nearly a decade now -- have cut their branch presence significantly in the last six months in a bid to cut cost and increase efficiency.
According to data analysed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, the claim severity is 83 per cent higher in case of cashless mediclaim than reimbursement in the last two years.
Unlike most Indian movies that have a happily-lived-ever-after theme, there is no love lost between the Indian film industry and insurance companies.
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Pricing of products by hospitals was not regulated, Kumar said at an interaction organised by Merchants Chamber in Kolkata.
Raise the amount of life cover you own if your liabilities and responsibilities have increased during the year, says Arvind A Rao.
Payments can be made till April 21; for motor the relaxation is only for third-party insurance.
The Finance Ministry is considering to make it mandatory for all private general insurance companies to provide third party motor insurance, which is presently optional for them.
Ten central trade unions except Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh are observing one-day general strike on Thursday to protest against various government policies.
Irdai's push will make insurance cheaper for consumers and enable a consolidated view of all policies.
Serving pilots question the Kozhikode plane crash report findings.
The BCCI should consider postponing the IPL, says Kings XI Punjab's owner Ness Wadia even as BCCI president Sourav Ganguly says 'status quo remains'.
IPL is staring at a possible cancellation due to the deadly outbreak, which has led to more than 16,000 deaths globally. India, which has reported over 400 cases and nine deaths so far, is in a lockdown till March 31 to contain the pandemic.
IT, FMCG and manufacturing sectors are less attractive to foreign portfolio investors
'A country cannot be run on lines that everyone should be in agreement and those who disagree should be silenced.' 'If this is how they look at democracy, then I can only wish good luck to the future of parliamentary democracy in India.'
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries
While that may be easy, what is not easy is to buy the policy that is right for you
The bond market is not in a mood to reason with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on keeping yields low. The 10-year bond yields continued to rise for the fourth straight session to close at 6.202 per cent from its previous close of 6.135 per cent. The yield was at 6 per cent a week ago. The RBI wants the yields to remain at 6 per cent, but bond dealers say the central bank will have to step up its bond-buying programme.
It acts as an additional health safeguard in case your basic insurance plan is not enough to take care of your medical bills
Priya Nair finds out how investors of mutual funds, shares, unclaimed bank deposits, insurance policies can redeem long-forgotten investments.
The higher dividend will help Tata Trusts, which owns 67 per cent stake in Tata Sons, to invest in its charitable activities. The total dividend outgo will be Rs 404 crore.
hree big players -- ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Apollo Munich -- have launched policies in tie-ups with spas, gymnasiums, yoga institutes, diagnostic centres and health food retailers to offer discounts to customers on these services and products.
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Policyholders would be given an option to check whether any amount is lying due with insurance firms
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