Yes Subra, I agree with you I need X amount for retirement, after all you may end up spending a fortune on medical expenses during retirement ——-Most people tell me this. Wrong. You may or may not spend much on medical expenses (hey I am not saying you do not need medical insurance). I am […]
I do not know much about the other industries, but the financial services industry has a lot of interesting behaviour… The life insurance industry had a product called Classic Endowment Policy. This was a compulsory saving and risk cover product where the returns were a function of how well the fund was managed, how the […]
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? […]
For all those who have been reading about how badly the mutual fund industry, life insurance industry and the banking industry are suffering….please look at the results of all the banks! – Icici bank was more profitable because of the Rs. 350 crores from the life insurance arm – Hdfc mutual fund is the biggest […]
Most stories going around in the world are only about dishonest, misselling, cheating agents..do any of you have any idea about a few honest agents? The agency business is funny. Managers get people who are reasonably good in sales, but not too knowledgeable about the product, and make them agents.. here is a story: “I […]
Well this is not about Animal farm. It is about the state of the life insurance industry in India. Let us see the imaginary conversation between the LIC and Ministry of Finance. LIC: Good morning sir. Here is a cheque for the IPO Government Nonsense Ltd.’s public issue for Rs. 8000 crores. I hope the […]
The life insurance industry is in bad shape. Their past sins of over charging the customer are visiting them, and real hard. The Irda made some changes, the Income tax made some changes, they themselves made some mistakes, the customer unfortunately woke up, ….so in fine the industry is in trouble. So here is a […]