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In this podcast, Business Standard’s Sanjay Kumar Singh explains the difference between active and passive funds, why should an investor get into passive funds and more Topicspassive funds | Mutual Funds | Nifty index One category that has been gaining interest among investors these days is passive funds. Some such funds that were launched in the market recently are– Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund, Edelweiss MSCI India Domestic & World Healthcare 45 Index Fund. But what are passive funds? And can these funds add value to your portfolio? In this podcast, Business Standard’s Sanjay Kumar Singh explains…

Soybean at the benchmark Indore markets traded at Rs 4,145 per quintal; Chana price is expected to move up marginally from Rs 5,475 to Rs 5,525-5,550 per quintal in the Delhi market TopicsCommodity picks | Soybean | Chana Prices Soybean Soybean at the benchmark Indore markets traded at Rs 4,145 per quintal. For the week ahead, the price is expected to trade weak and head towards Rs 4,100-4,075 per quintal. There is weak demand from processors, besides attractive price could increase farm arrivals. Hence, the price is expected to trade with a downward bias for the…

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Irdai Chairman Subhash Khuntia has urged health insurance providers to develop disease-specific products which could help policy holders in preventing different ailments. I would urge insurers to develop more disease-specific products like for diabetics or for heart or kidney related issues, Khuntia said at a health insurance summit organised by CII. Under such focussed products, insurance companies can bring together medical experts to make aware policy holders on steps to be taken to prevent various diseases, he said. The chairman said the insurance sector, for too long, has concentrated…

The rising demand for food and groceries on e-commerce platforms will fuel the growth in the cold storage business, property consultant CBRE has said, and estimated that the total storage capacity as well as the real estate space in this segment will double by 2023. In its report on the cold storage segment, the consultant said that the overall cold storage real estate stock stood at 750800 million square feet in 2018 and is expected to rise to 1,4001,500 million sq ft by 2023. The overall cold storage capacity in 2018 stood at 3739…

October 16, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Any business book or LinkedIn coach will tell you that you need a great product, supply chain, and distribution strategy for your e-commerce business. That’s all true, but oftentimes direct to consumer brands miss one big strategic focus — community development. Companies like Glossier treat their customers as influencers. BestBuy has an exclusive network of “Tech Insiders.” Curology has a community strategy directly embedded into their business model and Sephora has their #SephoraSquad that redefines what an influencer is to a modern brand. All of these…

This year has brought unprecedented upheaval to American parents. With kids at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, sick loved ones needing care, and rising unemployment, mothers and fathers have been under tremendous strain. The American Psychological Association’s survey on Stress in America 2020, published in July, found that “parents are, on average, feeling significantly higher levels of stress than adults without children.” On a 10-point scale, the parents surveyed put their stress at 6.7 on average, with nearly half saying it’s between 8 and 10. When I asked the APA for a breakdown by gender, they informed…

A top-performing emerging-market bond fund is avoiding investments in Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia as the three countries score too low in its ratings for environmental, social, and governance risks. The $1.5-billion Candriam SRI Bond Emerging Markets Fund has outperformed almost 90 per cent of peers in the past three years and screens for ESG factors. The bottom 25 per cent of countries on the fund’s ranking get blacklisted, no matter how big a role they play in the bond world. This approach could be a harbinger of the challenges facing…