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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…
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…
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…
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…
Sanjiv Das Sells 13,301 Shares of Pagaya Technologies (NASDAQ:PGY) Stock
Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PGY - Get Free Report) President Sanjiv Das sold 13,301 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Saturday, September 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $20.21, for a total transaction of…
What must happen for AI's trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
“Then they will fall behind on their interest payments, and that risks bankruptcy,” says Wachter, who was previously the SEC's chief economist and director of its division of economic and risk analysis. If a productivity boom…
Arbiter Partners Capital Management LLC Buys Shares of 2,162,496 Osisko Development Corp. $OGG
Arbiter Partners Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Osisko Development Corp. (NYSE:OGG - Free Report) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
California State Teachers Retirement System Increases Stake in Equitable Holdings, Inc. $EQH
California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its stake in Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:EQH - Free Report) by 2,696.7% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm…
Sigma Lithium (NASDAQ:SGML) Shares Gap Up - Should You Buy?
Sigma Lithium Corporation (NASDAQ:SGML - Get Free Report)'s stock price gapped up before the market opened on Tuesday. The stock had previously closed at $8.91, but opened at $9.20. Sigma Lithium shares last traded at $9.04, with a volume of…
Alphabet Inc. $GOOGL Stock Holdings Increased by Symphony Financial Ltd. Co.
Symphony Financial Ltd. Co. boosted its holdings in shares of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Free Report) by 5.6% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund…
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