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New course at UK's Institute & Faculty of Actuaries

The programme, Certified Actuarial Analyst can be completed in 2-3 years and will be offered from 2014 onwards

Life insurers to have varied rewards mechanism to boost agent persistency

Persistency refers to the ability to keep renewing customers' insurance policy till it reaches maturity

Fire & engineering segment sees drop in rates

Officials say there are discounts of 30-40% on an average to get more clients

Educomp posts Q3 net loss of Rs 87.6 crore

The company's net sales fell to Rs 155.33 crore for Q3 FY14, down by 37% compared to Rs 271.12 crore

Star India and Vodafone come together to launch Vodafone Sports

Strategic partnership to create a multi-sports offering

One in five workers admit to having an office crush right now

Twenty-Nine Per Cent of Workers Have Dated a Co-Worker, finds CareerBuilder India survey

More students may opt out of B-school placements this year

Placement process yet to be completed at most of top B-schools including IIMs

Japan's Outsourcing Inc acquires majority stake in Alp Consulting

Through this acquisition, Alp Consulting will become a part of Japanese publicly listed staffing firm

Indians say 'I Don't' when it comes to office romance

Only 9% Indian respondents willing to pursue office relationships, even if it would harm their career

HCL Tech launches twitter recruitment campaign

Company announces first ever twitter recruitment campaign called #COOLESTINTERVIEWEVER

Cheer returns to business school campuses

Placement season sees 30-40% rise in prospective recruiters; consulting & finance firms rub shoulders with start-ups, e-commerce players

Banks seek LIC's helping hand

By March, insurer may infuse money in banks that had planned QIPs

Health Insurance TPA of India to begin business only by 2014-end

The common in-house TPA of public sector general insurers, named Health Insurance TPA of India was incorporated in August 2013 to handle health insurance claims of the state-owned insurers

Hospitalisation cover for ATM attack victims unlikely soon

Most insurers only provide for liabilities associated with theft and damage to the ATM

Consulting to rule the roost at final placements of B-Schools

BFSI sector comes in as a close second

XLRI completes final placements in less than 4 days

Recruitment process saw 103 prominent recruiters with 254 offers across domains with a variety of roles in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, etc

Everonn Education Q3 net loss narrows to Rs 21.6 cr

The company saw a decrease in total income from Rs 15.63 crore in third quarter FY13 to Rs 11.22 crore for the third quarter of FY14

Micro insurance sale norms: Sector uneasy with latest Irda proposals

Mis-selling, training areas of concern

Top banks on a slide; smaller peers do better: Brand Finance study

Study shows that country's largest lender SBI had a 32.2% decrease In its Brand Value in 2014 compared to 2013

Insurers shift product mix away from Ulips

Under the new norms life insurers have to replace their existing products with new ones meeting the regulatory criteria