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2024: Reforms to keep Indian insurance sector buoyant
Sumit Rai, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance One of the...
Wearables: Do you want Big Tech Cos snooping in your closet?
It’s virtually impossible to escape the all-seeing eye of companies...
Nearly 70% Indian firms might deploy AI before 2020: Intel
Retail and BFSI organisations are leveraging AI to increase efficiency in their sales and marketing function, which has emerged as the second most popular use case.
Life insurers need to focus on existing business for customer experience & profitability, Swiss Re
Retaining customers is an important component in this regard,not least because keeping existing policyholders is less expensive than winning new business. Data analytics can be used to improve customer retention rates in several ways.
Global insured average annual loss from catastrophes almost at USD 80 billion: AIR
Average annual insured losses and the metrics from the aggregate insured exceedance probability curve—for all regions and perils modeled by AIR—have increased since 2012. The rise reflects both the continued development of properties in at-risk areas as well as the growth in coverage of AIR’s modeled countries and perils
Rekindling Growth
The Indian life insurance industry seems to be returning to the growth path Life insurance industry recorded a premium income of Rs 3,66,943.23 crore during 2015-16 as against Rs 3,28,102 crore in the previous financial year registering growth of 11.84 per...
Mutual funds see net redemptions of Rs 73,000 crore in March
mutual fund (MF) schemes saw a net inflow of Rs 1.34 lakh crore in 2015-16. Investors pulled out over Rs 73,000 crore from various mutual fund schemes in March, primarily due to high redemptions in Liquid Funds. Despite this, mutual fund (MF) schemes saw a net inflow...
Six things that happen to you after a year in space
To explore beyond the moon, NASA will need to fortify the human body After a record stay in space, astronaut Scott Kelly grew 1.5 inches due to a lack of gravity. He faces a greater risk of cancer than most earth-bound folks because of radiation exposure that's 20...
Indian employees most engaged globally: Report
They are followed by Chinese employees (49 per cent), US (38 per cent), Brazil (36 per cent), Canada (28 per cent) and the UK (24 per cent). NEW DELHI: A majority of Indian employees are performing intensely and their work engagement level is highest in the...