The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) released new guidelines amending its earlier2016 rules to better reflect market realities. “These guidelines have been done keeping in mind the realities of the market and forward looking”, said the secretary of DIPAM. The new guidelines will be applicable from the current financial year ending March…
Govt. keeps interest rates unchanged on small savings schemes for the third quarter starting October 1 The rate of Interest chart: Scheme Interest rate for October-December 2024 Interest rate for July – September 2024 Interest compounded Savings account 4.00% 4.00% Annual rest 1-year time deposit 6.90% 6.90% Quarterly rest 2-years’ time deposit 7.00% 7.00% Quarterly…
On Tuesday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman officially launched the much anticipated NPS Vatsalya scheme, an online new pension scheme platform. The scheme is designed to help parents save for their children’s future through a pension account, leveraging the benefits of long-term wealth accumulation and compounding. This scheme has an option to convert the account…
The RBI while considering applications for opening branches gives weightage to the nature and scope of banking facilities provided by banks to common persons, particularly in underbanked areas (districts), actual credit flow to the priority sector, pricing of products, and overall efforts for promoting financial inclusion, including the introduction of appropriate new products and the…
The Mahila Samman Savings Certificate Scheme was launched by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance to provide financial security to every girl and woman in India. The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, through an e-gazette notification issued on June 27, 2023, permitted all Public Sector Banks and eligible Private Sector Banks…
The provisions of nomination are found in various financial products like Life Insurance, Provident Fund, Gratuity, Co-operative societies and banking regulation acts (section 45ZC to 45 ZF) and Banking Companies (Nomination) rules 1985 and the relevant provisions of the Indian Succession Act. The nomination facility is available only to individual depositors and not to any…
Group Insurance Scheme is as the name suggests insurance protection to groups of people. Irrespective of the size of the group, group insurance covers all members under the same plan. The plan may be in the form of group life insurance, group health insurance, group travel insurance, or group personal accident insurance. According to IRDAI…
An insurance plan or a policy can be defined as a legal contract between the insured (an individual) and the insurer (insurance company). Under the contract, you pay regular amounts of money (as premiums) to the insurer, and they pay you the sum assured in specific situations of suffering to cover the losses, against payment…
The Insurance sector comprises two primary segments – Life and General Insurance. Life insurance includes whole life insurance, Term life insurance, Child Plans, Annuities life policies, and Endowment policies, etc. General insurance includes motor insurance, property insurance, and health insurance; crop insurance liability insurance, travel insurance, marine insurance, cargo insurance, etc. For details of these…
The government, on Friday, announced the interest rates for small savings schemes applicable for the quarterJuly-September 2024. It means the interest rates remain unchanged from those notified for the first quarter March-June 2024. The interest rates applicable to various instruments of Small Savings are as follows. Scheme Interest rate for July-Sept. 2024 Interest rate for…