“Americans love free trade” this is the image they try to keep creating. When it comes to India, China, etc. the Americans want full and unconditional access to their markets. So American Insurance providers, banks, retail…all of them want to come to sell. However when it comes to their own markets they protect it with […]
A few days ago one of the persons I know called to say: “Do you know that 5 CEOs have resigned in the last month in the financial services industry!”. I said hmmmmm and did you know AT LEAST 5 financial services companies are in the market trying to ‘sell’ from one owner to another? […]
Today (Saturday 12 May) 3.30pm and 8pm(repeat telecast) and Sunday 1pm and 9pm in case you decide to watch Cnbc Awaaz…you can see a program called Pehredar…Priyanka Sambhav hosts the show…. today it is a case of ‘mis-selling’ by Met Life Insurance agent. My views…I will do a story a little later on…
If you were a big businessman would you create COMPETITION for yourself? Kind of a stupid question right? Let us see what the Government of India does! In the life insurance business it already OWNS India’s most valuable player viz LIC. However it creates SBI, Star Union Daichi, Canara Hsbc Insurance, Idbi Fortis, ….and I […]
as the world moves towards more and more of insurance, it will mean more paperwork for doctors.Frankly too may doctors I know are NOT KEEN at all that their kids take to their same profession….. So in the future doctors will be increasingly ’employed’ with a hospital (including GP practice that Apollo is setting up). […]
The most important person in the life insurance business TODAY is the ‘policy retention manager’. In every industry the MOST IMPORTANT PERSON keeps changing from time to time. Now is the time of the person who does the cleaning up after the ELEPHANT has done the big job! Over the past 10 years life insurance […]
Here is a quick list on what I will not write on: -Taxation esp personal tax. There are more than enough people doing this. -Stock specific tips etc. I may do it once in a while, but not as a regular thing, and not something that is useful. I mean I will not do updates […]