The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, February 13, 2005

Met Advantage from MetLife
INSURANCE plans that aim at providing the policyholder with a corpus to ensure that his post-retirement years are spent sans any financial hassles have, of late, been quite popular. With the launch of Met Advantage, ... More

Retirement plan for a secure life
Birla Sun Life has come out with a retirement plan, `Flexi Secure Life II' with two options — single premium plan and regular premium plan. It is a unit-linked plan with three investment fund options; migration from one fund option to ... More

INSIGHT

Basel II norms: Strength from three pillars
PILLAR I of Basel II norms provide banks with guidelines to measure the various types of risks they face — credit, market and operational risks — and the capital required to cover these ... More

FOREX

Forex reserves dip by $806 m
THE country's foreign exchange reserves moved down by $806 million during the week ended February 4 taking the total reserves to $128.914 billion as against $129.720 billion in the previous week. Revaluation of international currencies was the ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE

Travel insurance plans
Tata AIG General Insurance has launched `Business Travel Guard', a comprehensive overseas travel coverage for the business traveller. The policy comes in three options Silver, Gold and Platinum. A minimum of five employees can be insured. The ... More

CREDIT CARDS & DEBIT CARDS

Credit cards for Chennaiites
Vijaya Bank has come out with a unique credit card catering to its Chennai customers, `Vijaya Bank Chennai card'. The Chennai card is an international one, valid across all Visa outlets. The cardholder may access cash at any of Visa's ATMs, and ... More

Credit card against FD
Heard of a fixed deposit that gets you a credit card, ICICI Bank offers its FD customers `Easy Deposit Card' free of charge as long as the FD account is active. The card bestows various insurance benefits, zero per cent surcharge on fuel ... More