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Mahindra Manulife Life Insurance appoints Ruchika Varma as Chief Marketing & Customer Officer
Mahindra Manulife Life Insurance has appointed Ruchika Malhan Varma as its Chief Marketing and Customer Officer (CMCO), as the company sets out to create a differentiated, AI-driven, digitally enabled and customer-centric life insurance franchise…
Is Life Insurance Just for Protection? Why Modern Retirement Planning Demands a Second Look
For most of my career, I've watched Americans think about life insurance the same way. It's something you buy to protect your family if something happens to you. That's still true, but it's no longer the whole story. Not only are people living…
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Child education plans in India: A systematic approach to building an education corpus
A child education plan refers to a product that helps parents systematically build an education corpus for their child. Depending on the product, it can provide a combination of life insurance and/or market-linked investment options to create a…
China Can Avoid a Financial Crisis. It Can't Avoid the Cost.
Earlier this year, I put a blunt question to an adviser to China's central bank: With the property bust grinding into its fourth year, how likely was it that the country's strained financial system would finally crack into a full-blown crisis? It…
1st Abu Dhabi Investment Forum kicks off in Seoul: science ministry
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) hosted its first investment forum in Seoul on Wednesday, which resulted in multiple agreements spanning from digital assets to autonomous driving and games with Korean companies, the science ministry said. The…
Korea, UAE agree to expand partnership in investment forum
South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed Wednesday to expand partnerships in cutting-edge sectors, from digital assets to games and autonomous driving, at a forum hosted by the Middle Eastern country's investment office. Organizations…
HK welcomes 36.67m visitors in first eight months of 2026
Hong Kong welcomed approximately 36.67 million visitor arrivals in the first eight months of this year, an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2025, according to the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB). SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The…
De-reservification, Not De-dollarization
This is a joint blog with Alex Etra, Senior Macro Strategist and head of Flow of Funds at Vanda Research. The IMF's data on the currency composition of foreign exchange (FX) reserves is scrutinized carefully for any signs that the world is shifting…
How Much Should You Weigh? This 1970s Scale Told You
A bathroom scale has one job: To tell you how much you weigh. But in the 1980s, the industrial designers at Krups decided to go further, with their Data EG scale. The scale contained a pull-out weight chart in the center. This listed different…
October 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago
“Smallpox, the most devastating and feared pestilence in human history, is making its last stand in two remote areas of Ethiopia, one in the desert and one in the mountains. As of the end of August, only five villages had experienced cases…
Hero Motors raises ₹300 cr ahead of IPO today: Key details
Automotive technology and powertrain solutions provider Hero Motors Ltd said it has garnered ₹299.99 crore from anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), which opens for public subscription on Wednesday. The company…
Hero Motors IPO opens today: All you need to know about the ₹1,000 crore issue
Hero Motors, one of India's leading automotive technology companies engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered powertrain solutions catering to automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in United…
Dalal Street opens in green but caution prevails; Fed decision, crude oil keep bulls on edge
Markets opened on a cautious positive note on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, as investors weighed elevated crude oil prices and a looming US Federal Reserve policy decision against oversold technical conditions that offered some relief buying. The…
Insider Selling: Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) Chairman Sells 15,000 Shares of Stock
Mission Produce, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVO - Get Free Report) Chairman Stephen Barnard sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, September 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $13.10, for a total value of $196,500.00. Following…
Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Formula One Series C (NASDAQ:FWONK) Receives Consensus Rating of 'Moderate Buy' from Analysts
Shares of Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Formula One Series C (NASDAQ:FWONK - Get Free Report) have been given a consensus rating of 'Moderate Buy' by the eight analysts that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. Three analysts…
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