Finance

May 22, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The coronavirus outbreak has thrown us all for quite a loop. What could have been an exciting and prosperous year has quickly turned into overwhelming feelings of uncertainty, fear, and anxiety.  With major corporations in the travel and retail sectors letting go of workers and the media reporting a picture of doom and gloom, CEOs and owners are hitting the panic button. I get it. As a leader in your business, you are facing big decisions that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Should you lay off staff?…

One of the biggest forces holding back gender equality in the workplace is a set of structures left over from what I call the “Mad Men era.” Laws, policies, and stigmas that, in households where there is one male parent and one female parent, push women to do more of the caregiving at home, while pushing men to spend more time at work. This has been clear in the data for many years. Despite the stereotype of the lazy, uninvolved father, through a combination of paid work, unpaid work, and childcare, dads put in as many total work hours as…

A sharp sell-off in banking and financial stocks dragged the benchmark indices down on Friday. The Sensex fell 260.31 points or 0.84 per cent to end at 30,672.59, while the Nifty declined 67 points or 0.74 per cent, to close at 9,039.25. The Bank Nifty declined 2.6 per cent, with several big names posting losses in excess of 4 per cent. Analysts said investors shelved financial stocks on worries that an extension in the moratorium would lead to a pile-up in bad loans. The RBI on Friday extended the moratorium by…

Now is the time to be agile.Free Book Preview No BS Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing The ultimate guide to – producing measurable, monetizable results with social media marketing. May 21, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The business world is upside down. Things are chaotic right now, and rightfully so, but there are still signs of hope. Entrepreneurs and business leaders need to think outside the box to help their companies navigate these unprecedented times and hopefully to come out stronger on the other side. Now is the time to…

Despite the fact that there is massive under-penetration in the county as far insurance is concerned, the regulator is of the view that the solution to this does not lie in mandating insurance because a stage has been reached where insurance should be a product on “demand”. It cannot be forced upon consumers by the industry or other stakeholders. “There has generally been a feedback that either the regulator or the government should mandate certain types of insurance, but ideally the solution does not lie in mandating insurance,” said T L Alamelu, Member (Non-Life) Irdai. …

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund on Monday said it has sought consent of the unitholders for the orderly winding up of the six fixed income schemes. The electronic voting will take place from December 26-28 and the meeting of unitholders of relevant schemes on December 29, Franklin Templeton MF sais. The unitholders would have to take a call on whether to give consent to the winding up decision or withholding it, which would allow the schemes to reopen for purchase and redemption. The move comes after Supreme Court on Thursday asked Franklin…

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