Endowments

Posted on 10.13.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 8:01 pm    

As Eighties and Early Nineties saw an unprecedented surge in the buying of mortgage Endowments, nowadays market is teeming with their selling trends. Multiple factors could be responsible for that trend — from a deficit in Endowments surrender values to the warnings issued by endowment life offices regarding the ‘endowment shortfall red letter’. Due to the advent of Internet and its technologies, people are finding it much easier to explore and exploit new vistas to benefit from their endowment policies. Due to the vast options made available to policy holders at their fingertips by the Internet, now policy holders can receive endowment surrender values much higher than that offered by their life offices.

Nafisa Dada: Obsessed with the Stock Exchange

Posted on 10.17.06 by StockPK Team @ 1:00 pm    

Forty-six-year-old Nafisa Dada has been playing the stocks for nineteen years now. And she has no regrets. Sitting over a computer in a room at her apartment, she manages both home and her trading, making sure one does not affect the other.

Dada trades online now, not like the old days when orders had to be phoned in. And she is one to take advantage of technology. In the same room as her computer, on which she places her buy and sell orders, is her trusty television set, which is usually tuned in to one of the numerous business channels that have proliferated in the past couple of years.