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Inside Personal Finance Top Stories Moneylife Digital Team InstaWILL — an instant Will for your estate and succession planning Leaving your wealth to your loved ones is a wonderful gift, but do you wish to leave them in a tangle of paperwork as well? There is one company, which has developed a specialisation that makes it stand out from a mass of lawyers for whom succession planning is a minor area of work The Direct Taxes Code 2010 Bill: Who gains, who loses? The DTC 2010 Bill proposals are positive for individuals and capital markets, and companies paying the full tax rate Central government employees getting short-changed by NPS allocations Central government employees are getting an unfair deal with the NPS as politicians play politics and finance ministry plays safe Pension payouts: SBI wakes up after RBI rap Pinched by RBI’s scathing criticism of the inordinate delays in pension payouts to its customers, the state-run lender has put up advertisements in leading dailies, saying ‘We care for you’ Natural resources funds, unnatural returns Another scheme — the Tata Natural Resources Fund — has entered this space, but there is nothing which this fund can deliver that existing equity funds cannot After social networking, it’s time for group buying Group buying on the Internet is simple. If certain number of people sign up for an offer, then the deal becomes available to all. If the predetermined minimum is not met, no one gets the deal. This reduces risk for retailers “There is no crisis in ULIPs”, says LIC chairman It is interesting to note that 75% of premium, collected by LIC, is from ULIPs and 25% from non-linked products, but a number of policies sold in the market for small ticket, longer duration is 80% (non-linked) and 20% in ULIPs. Cleartrip.com: Nothing clear about it Shoddy service, lost mileage points and booking glitches galore. Why should you ever visit aggregator sites for airline tickets? What makes gold finance companies shine bright? The yellow metal’s phenomenal jump in valuation, steady interest rates and instant sanctions of loans, aided by the receding stigma of borrowing are driving more and more people to take this loan route PSU insurers deny any deal with medical equipment and pharma companies PSU insurers have denied some newspaper reports which said that these firms were planning to deal directly with suppliers of medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies Inside Personal Finance News & Opinions Anil Agashe Pillar to Post Over the next decade, consumers will have to continue to fight for their rights. Like Chitrangad Wadgaonkar, now 78, did against the postal department. Anil Agashe narrates his story Aaron Rodrigues Telecom users can now approach consumer courts directly For a long time, telecom consumers needed clarity on whether they would need to go in for the lengthy process of arbitration to settle a dispute with a service provider Yogesh Sapkale with Aaron Rodrigues Mobile banking needs regulatory framework for growth Mobile commerce and mobile banking have the ability to get every user into the banking system provided there is a regulatory framework and clear guidelines for banks, mobile operators and end-users Sanket Dhanorkar Twisted logic of MetLife’s Wealth Plus An internal presentation of MetLife’s latest offering, MetLife Wealth Plus, claims to provide a cost-effective and liquid avenue for wealth-creation. It gave us a rare peek into how mis-selling occurs in insurance Chinese mobiles continue to flood Indian market with China-made mobile phones continue their onslaught on Indian markets. However, this time domestic companies are promoting these handsets Insurance honchos admit to rampant mis-selling At the recently held CII Insurance Summit, industry leaders blatantly exposed the issue of mis-selling of insurance policies and gave insights into how and why this has been carrying on for years. CIBIL to provide creditor’s contact updates to member banks CIBIL Location Plus will provide comprehensive information like customer identification details and contact addresses along with the reported dates and all the customer contact numbers to member banks. Custom-built Want your automobile to stand out from the rest? Customisation is becoming a rage, says Veeresh Malik Inside Personal Finance Moneylife Features 
Consumers bitter over butter shortageConsumers across India are increasingly perturbed as they are unable to abundantly butter their 
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Mobile banking: A safe way to transact?Mobile banking in India is still in its infancy, but gaining in popularity. However, the primary 
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 IDBI Bank deals itself a triple whammy After changing its employee incentive plan to meet targets; de-emphasising sales of non-banking products, it has now also done away with a number of fee-based charges for banking  Investors furious over SEBI’s hike in arbitration With less then 24 hours to the implementation of a SEBI-mandated hike in arbitration fees, investors appeal to the finance ministry for help; they point out that 84% of  Mid-cap Scanner: Adhunik Metaliks Not heavily traded and lesser tracked, this stock has some untapped potential  Smaller engineering companies may benefit from higher capex An Edelweiss Securities survey points out that infrastructure companies have firmed up higher capex plans over the next two years. This will benefit smaller engineering companies  NSE ‘refutes’ its own data which indicates that Ravi Narain, MD of the National Stock Exchange, believes that the bourse under his control is not hollow, shallow or illiquid. But his ‘explanation’ only raises more
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