Five major challenges faced: Potential for outliving one’s assets; threat of rising living costs; impact of increasing health-care costs; uncertainty about future level of social security benefits; and damage to long-term financial security

With so much at stake when planning a retirement income stream, it pays to take a step back and see whether your plan takes into account the major obstacles to retirement income adequacy. …

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PeopleHealth is among the few firms that provide such preventive services. The Bangalore-based start-up has developed a tool that takes into account an array of information related to employees’ health, habits and lifestyle to assess the company’s health, and design an adapted preventive healthcare policy.  Based on the results, …

Britain’s largest private health insurer British United Provident Association (BUPA) is set to enter India to cash in on the booming healthcare services demand, driven by rapidly rising population and growing affluence.

The UK healthcare giant is said to have teamed up with Max New York Life for its foray into the country, and plans to plough some of the £1.44 billion rose from the sale of 25 of its UK hospitals last year, sources said.

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The leading private life insurance company - Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd. has launched ‘lifeline’ - a health insurance product on Wednesday, 5th March 2008, across India. Now, the company can boast of offering complete health and life insurance products across ll regions in India.

This newly launched health insurance product of Max New York Life Insurance Company offers three groups of heath insurance solutions. TAGS:Health care, heath insurance, hospitalization, leading private life insurance company, Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd Medicash plan

Chennai has over 40,000 homeless poor (pavement dwellers), scattered across the city in clusters. They have no identity (ration card/voters id), least access to healthcare, sanitation, education, shelter, nutritious diet etc.

They are often the most vulnerable and abused community in the city.

For the past couple of years,the Social Action Track of CTN (Chennai Transformation Network) has been raisi…

Looking for a comprehensive low cost health insurance is almost similar to looking for a gold mine hidden in a secret cave. The rising health insurance costs is becoming such a big problem today. Every person has the right to be assured of proper medical attention. In effect, everybody definitely needs health insurance coverage. But then again, providers are always faced with the constant battle of giving quality coverage against the ever-increasing medical care, hospitaliza…

This is an exciting time: The Indian insurance industry and its regulators are currently undertaking a number of actions to further India’s goal of developing a strong health insurance market, which would improve the general health status of Indians, ease the government burden of public care, help families avoid catastrophic financial losses, and improve the overall quality of healthcare in India.

Here are some of the special issues ahead for two bi…

SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd., the new generation microfinance company is all set to roll out its health insurance product “Swayam Shakti” for the poor in semi urban and rural areas.

SKS Microfinance will cover its members in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Orissa by March 08 under the health insurance program. SKS Microfinance has tied up with ICICI Lombard General Insurance for this initiative.

Having already disbursed aro…