India has a growing population of educated people capable of handling high-end knowledge-based work and research. With a huge talent pool, India could emerge as a global KPO hub as the sector requires specialized knowledge in respective verticals. With the mushrooming of engineering and technical institutes in India, there will no shortage of skilled manpower
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Howard Bolnick, who taught insurance at the Kellogg School of Management for 13 years, was in India for a five – day executive development programme on healthcare financing and health insurance, organised by the Insurance Foundation of India (IFI). Bolnick, a past president of the US Society of Actuaries, took time to talk to Sarabjeet
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New York bankruptcy court to hear former owner’s updated rescue plan today.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), in its efforts to gain control over LyondellBasell, is looking to team up with the unsecured creditors and bond holders of the bankrupt Dutch petrochemicals giant.
Sources close to the development said the move came after the LyondellBasell management filed an
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Forget keyloggers and packet sniffers. In the wake of industry rules requiring credit card data to be encrypted, malware that siphons clear-text information from computer memory is all the rage among scammers, security researchers say.
So-called RAM scrapers scour the random access memory of POS, or point-of-sale, terminals, where PINs and other credit card data must
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Learn to motivate your employees to get the best out of them.
Managers who understand what motivates each employee can tailor incentives accordingly. But your motivational toolbox should go beyond rewarding excellent work. Just as important to keeping workers engaged is a plan for encouraging, consoling and embracing them when they invariably slip off track.
But how
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Precautions need to be taken while outsourcing work due to various reasons like money, time, availability of manpower etc. There are many risks involved during process of outsourcing and thus it is imperative to choose the right service provider. The outsourcer should be honest and efficient with good communication skills. This is not a big
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This is a practice area that was thought to be in decline 10 years ago but which still attracts newly qualified actuaries. Indeed, the increasing globalisation of the profession has made it easier for pensions actuaries to explore new markets.
Pension saving is a newly emerging industry in Asia, where the custom for generations was for
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Fundamental analysis for stock picking is passe, quantitative investment strategy based on mathematical calculations is the in thing, say Prashant Mahesh & Nikhil Walavalkar.
Investors are familiar with stock selection strategies based on fundamentals. Most mutual funds and insurance companies follow fundamental analysis while selecting stocks for their portfolios. Here an analyst examines factors such as
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Are you looking for a marketing tool that is both effective and inexpensive? Then pull out your microphone and do some speaking! Why should you consider 'public speaking' as a way to obtain new customers? Because it doesn't cost anything, except your time, and it is effective.
Why is being a speaker at an association meeting
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Six months back, like many others, I was enthralled by the Microfinance 'success story' in India. However, as an intern with a leading Microfinance Institution (MFI), on my first field visit- in a scanty, unsightly village in North India- as these microfinance borrowers recounted their tales, I realized that all was not hunky dory.
The women
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The folks at the independent anti-virus testing body AV-Test.org have been in touch with some interesting statistics.
They are finding more than one million unique malware samples a month, and presently the total amount of unique samples in their malware collection exceeds 22 million.
That will probably seem pretty jaw-dropping to some of you, especially when you
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Outsourcing to India appears to be the biggest trend during the recent past. It has several reasons why more and more companies are looking forward to Outsourcing to India. If we put other reasons apart the strongest reason for Outsourcing to India is the human talent this country has and that too at very low
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The behaviour of, and trends in, lobal investment markets will affect actuaries working in all areas, as well as those who specialise in investment. It is anticipated, therefore, that the breakout sessions will dealing in investment will be well subscribed. In fact, investment instruments are becoming more accessible to the population as a whole. Take
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The way USA government is handling the Financial crisis is blasphemous and I believe they are living in fool’s paradise. A country which is threatened by outsourcing of jobs to country like India & China is able to dole out bailout of a Trillion dollar with such frequency!! To put things in perspective India’s GDP
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The average income of Indians would match that of US or British citizens on July 27, 2048, says software..
You might call it a vision, a conviction or even an assumption, but health expert and data visionary Hans Rosling predicts that the day the average income of Indians would match that of US or British
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