HNI To Be Benefitted With Additional Services From Insurance Companies

Alike banks, who gives priority banking to its preferred customers, insurance companies have also come out with the plan to provide specialized services to its High Net Worth Individual (HNI) customers. This plan comes under two categories viz: gold and silver. Under this, in addition to giving of personal advices and services to its customers, insurance companies will also give specialized products to these individuals. However this facility is available if a customer’s renews the policy without any break. 
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With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s steps to arrest the slide of the rupee leading to tight liquidity conditions, the retail investor is once again being drawn to short-term bank fixed deposits (tenures of less than a year). In the past few weeks, lenders such as HDFC Bank and YES Bank have raised interest rates on select maturities and it is expected others would follow in the near future.

With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s steps to arrest the slide of the rupee leading to tight liquidity conditions, the retail investor is once again being drawn to short-term bank fixed deposits (tenures of less than a year). In the past few weeks, lenders such as HDFC Bank and YES Bank have raised interest rates on select maturities and it is expected others would follow in the near future.    http://www.myallagents.com/Liquidity-squeeze-Shortterm-fixed-deposits-draw-investors/details.htm

Regulatory intervention, high inflation cripple insurance industry

The agent count at Reliance Life Insurance has fallen 26,000, or 8% to 1.24 lakh at the end of March 31, 2013 since 2012 when it sold a 26% stake to Nippon Life which valued the company at three times its embedded value. In January this year, INGGroup of the Netherlands sold 26% stake at a 25% loss to its JV partner ExideBSE 1.28 %after a decade-long battle trying to make sense out of the Indian Life Insurance marke That simply is the tale of sliding fortunes of the Indian life insurance industry which until a few years ago was considered to be a sunrise industry promising decades of uninterrupted growth and loads of profits for shareholders  http://www.myallagents.com/Regulatory-intervention-high-inflation-cripple-insurance-industry/details.html

Complaints Against Insurance Companies On A Rise

The Central system of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority that keeps the data of complaints of policy holders against all the insurance companies, for the year ending March 2013, posted a figure of 3.41 lakhs complaints against the life insurance companies. Majority of these complaints were against insurance giant Life Insurance Corporation of India, Birla Sunlife and Bajaj Allianz and were related to issue like unfair business practice, alleged mis-selling by insurance companies etc.   Further the complaint cell stated that most of the complaints (more than 30%) pertained to unfair business practice. Of the total 3.41 lakhs complaints, 168,482 complaints were of unfair trade practices  http://www.myallagents.com/Complaints-Against-Insurance-Companies-On-A-Rise/details.html

health insurance tips for students travelling abroad

Unless the university makes it mandatory for you to buy the health cover it provides, you can waive it, especially if you are already covered as a dependant or want to purchase it privately. You can pick one from a local insurer in the country you are travelling to, or an Indian insurance company before you leave. 

Many students club the premium with the tuition fee for convenience, but the university may not offer the best deal, and it is wise to compare. Despite the online channel, it's not easy to buy a plan from a foreign insurer. So start by surfing the domestic plans. For some universities like MIT and Stanford, the plan must comply with their guidelines. If the prepackaged plan doesn't match the requirements, insurers are ready to tweak it.  

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How to evaluate a Pension Plan

There are many options available to an individual intending to plan for his retirement. Be it PPF, ULIP, NSC’s etc. Most retirement options fall into two categories,-those which promise a fixed assured return and those, like pension plans, which offer non-assured returns. There are very few retirement planning options available in mutual funds. At present, two funds, UTI Retirement Benefit Plan and Kothari Pioneer Pension plan fill the retirement mutual fund void. Both these schemes come equipped with Section 88 benefits and are therefore, on this count, at par with other retirement planning options like PPF, PF etc. Both the UTI Retirement Benefit Plan (RBP) and Kothari Pioneer Pension Plan (KPPP) allow the investor to plan for retirement, making it possible for him to receive regular income after retirement. Before an investor goes in for a retirement plan he needs to evaluate its various basic parameters: 
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Equity Markets

What drives an investor to buy a stock? Is it the fundamentals? The technicals? A combination of the two? Well I'm not quite certain anymore. You can basically throw all of the textbook answers out the window when it comes to today's equity markets. Why do I say that? Because I believe that the only thing that is driving this market is the notion that the government is going to bail out everyone and their brother.  
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Buying Life Insurance

1. Buying Life Insurance

Conventional wisdom says that life insurance is sold, not purchased. In other words, some people are reluctant to discuss the importance of owning life insurance, and others are simply unaware of the need to have life insurance. Although many large companies provide life insurance as part of their benefits package, this coverage may be insufficie

Who needs life insurance? If there are individuals who depend on you for financial support, or if you work at home providing your family with such services as child care, cooking, and cleaning, you need life insurance. Older couples also may need life insurance to protect a surviving spouse against the possibility of the couple's retirement savings being depleted by unexpected medical expenses. And individuals with substantial assets may need life insurance to help reduce the effects of estate taxes or to transfer wealth to future generations 

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Financial planning tips for IT

Given the obvious strain on the public finances we already know that company and personal tax is set to rise next yea
2009/10 could be the year to bring forward plans to draw out retained profit, pay yourself a bonus or engineer a better trading year than you will experience in 2010/11.
Pensions provision is always an efficient way to get money from company into personal hands.
In most cases contractors can transfer virtually all of their income, tax free, into a pension although the budget has clipped the wings of the highest earners and they can now only invest £20k and be certain of higher rate tax relief.
Starting to drip feed higher amounts into a scheme now could help you to exploit depressed valuations on the equity and bond markets In particular US, emerging markets and smaller companies in general look set to prosper as the worse of the bad recessionary news is now out in the public domain. http://www.myallagents.com/Financial-planning-tips-for-IT/details.html