Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s burgeoning internet economy is slowly warming up to the potential of its massively underpenetrated insurance market. The country’s largest consumer internet platforms – from Flipkart to Paytm – are scaling up insurance businesses with the promise of low cost, low commitment and fully digital services as demand for risk coverage rises […]
Archives for September 2020
Internet platforms rush to get a pie of growing Insurance market
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s burgeoning internet economy is slowly warming up to the potential of its massively underpenetrated insurance market. The country’s largest consumer internet platforms – from Flipkart to Paytm – are scaling up insurance businesses with the promise of low cost, low commitment and fully digital services as demand for risk coverage rises […]
Influencers may have to verify before pushing advertising
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Social media influencers and digital marketers could face a bumpy ride as the onus of ensuring the veracity of claims made in advertisements could fall upon them soon. The government’s draft new guidelines targeted at preventing misleading advertisements has an entire section on due diligence to be made by endorsers. It has […]
Influencers may have to verify before pushing advertising
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Social media influencers and digital marketers could face a bumpy ride as the onus of ensuring the veracity of claims made in advertisements could fall upon them soon. The government’s draft new guidelines targeted at preventing misleading advertisements has an entire section on due diligence to be made by endorsers. It has […]
Razer Gaming Fans Caught Up in Data Leak
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6 more IRS forms can be filed with e-signatures
The IRS announced on Thursday that it is adding six new IRS forms to the list of forms that are temporarily permitted to be filed using e-signatures due to the coronavirus pandemic (IR-2020-206). The forms are fileable only on paper but otherwise require a handwritten signature. Allowing them to be e-signed remotely before being printed […]
UBS pushes wealth clients to choose sustainable investing first
UBS will offer sustainable investments as its preferred solution for wealth management clients worldwide as the COVID-19 crisis underscores the need for more socially and environmentally responsible financing. “The pandemic has brought the vulnerability and interconnected nature of our societies and industries to the forefront of investors’ minds and shown that sustainability considerations cannot be […]
The Stupendous Luck Of Bill Gates And Other Money Psychology Fables – With Morgan Housel
[embedded content] Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you never miss an update Morgan Housel is one of the finest investment writers of our generation. His new book, out this week, is destined to become a modern classic. Not only will you enjoy breezing through each of these highly enjoyable and critical ideas, […]
An endless responsibility
Here’s part of your responsibility – you cannot continually change your views about your investments based on what the markets have just done today. Cannot. You will chop your portfolio into pretzel nuggets. And then into crumbs and salt crystals. You cannot consistently sell down 4% and then buy back plus 10% when it feels […]
Should You Give the Cost-plus Pricing Strategy a Go?
Setting product or service prices is arguably one of the biggest yet most challenging decisions you can make. Some businesses use the cost-plus pricing strategy to reach a price that’s justifiable. What is a cost-plus pricing strategy? Cost-plus pricing is where a business comes up with prices by multiplying its cost of goods sold by […]