Moving abroad? Settle money matters first

Published in Mint on Apr 30 2015 Nitya Narayanan, a Thrissur-based 30-year-old school teacher, is planning to move to Saudi Arabia in June this year, with her four-month-old son and five-year-old daughter to join her husband there. Though she is looking forward to the move, she is worried about winding up things here. “Apart from […]

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Banks may sell for more than one insurer

Published in Mint on April 02 2015 Paving the way for an open architecture in insurance distribution, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai), has issued draft guidelines on corporate agents. Corporate agents are entities such as banks that solicit insurance policies for insurers. Agents are individuals doing the same job. According to […]

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Financial instruments likely to cost more

Published in Mint on Mar 02 2015 Apart from mobile phone and restaurant bills, cost of financial products, too, will go up marginally due to the increase in effective service tax rate from 12.36% to 14%. The Finance Bill states: “In the new service tax rate the education cess and secondary and higher education cess […]

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Baby steps towards financial planning

Published in Mint on Feb 16 2015 Do you remember the feeling that you had when you first held your child in your arms? Some say it was happiness, others say it was responsibility. A part of this sense of responsibility is to provide everything to the bundle of joy. According to a study conducted […]

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Life insurers are settling more claims

Published in Mint on Feb 02 2015 According to the latest annual report published by the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (Irdai), life insurance companies have done a better job of settling death claims in financial year (FY) 2014 than in FY13. In terms of the number of policies settled, 12 life insurance companies […]

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Inform your insurer of hospitalization within 24 hours

Published in Mint on 4th February 2014, written by Kapil Mehta I am 69 years old and my wife is 63 years old. We already have a health insurance policy (for Rs.5 lakh), which is up for renewal in the next 10 days. I have also taken a policy for my son (35 years) and […]

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