Mutual fund plays a crucial role in the Indian economy. Mutual funds are considered to be the vehicle for mobilization and channelization of savings from individual investors to towards the various capital market instruments. Evaluation of the performance of mutual funds particularly is of a...

The mobile and wireless market has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world and it is still growing at a rapid pace. Mobile devices are the most promising way to reach the masses and to create stickiness among current customers, due to their ability to provide services anytime,...

This article discusses some of the challenges present in embedding Enterprise Risk Management issues like corporate governance, independence of CRO, challenges in implementing three lines of defense model, lack of risk knowledge in the first line of defense, lack of risk qualification in the...

Indian banking sector have responsible commitment to straighten the agricultural sector in lending. India growing in population needs more food production even to meet its own demand. It is critical now that agricultural sector has been pushed as secondary sector rather than primary. Author has...

This article critically analyses the development of health insurance in India where on the one hand, 61% of India's population is covered by government health insurance schemes; however, in the premium term, their contribution is only 11%. Further, public sector general insurance companies are...

The paper analyses the impact of COVID-19 on the death claims paid by the life insurance companies in India and as result losses suffered by the reinsurance companies. The impact of the second wave on the death claim experience for the first half-year of FY 2021-22 is much more than the death...

This paper gives the first cut-rate of Indian incidence of critical illness of cardiovascular,Strokes and Cancer diseases. This paper also compares the critical illness rates currentlyused in India, CIBT 93 with the rates calculated in this paper. The paper concludes that CIBT93 should be...

The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken by government to promote venture capitalism in India...

This paper discusses the business correspondent (BC)-agent banking model in India against the backdrop of community-based rural livelihood programs, its relevance in facilitating financial inclusion in underserved rural geographies, and its potential to address the gender gap in financial...