• Global Insurance Industry

  • Global insurance industry is a billion dollar industry which has vast potential and opportunity for millions of people around the world to draw benefit from insurance companies. Insurance is the most important for every individual.... 

  • Stimulus as Created Jobs say Researchers

  • Many of the US researched firms have confirmed that the Obama stimulus plan, which was accepted in February 2009 as contributed to the safekeeping of the economy from an economic catastrophe. The main contribution of the... 

  • What is Usury

  • The much used term of usury in the industry of loan is being derived from the Medieval Latin term usuria, which can be translated to mean interest. The Latin term usura can also be said to be the main source from which the... 

  • Is a Second Stimulus Package a Necessity

  • The first stimulus plan has not achieved much and there are many people who feel that a second stimulus plan is a necessity if we look closely at the economic situation today. One of the main advocator of a second stimulus... 

  • Debt Consolidation Loans

  • A person takes debt consolidation loans when they try to pay off a big amount of loan by taking other small amount of loans. Debt consolidation loans are taken by the debtor so that they could get a rate of interest which... 

  • Income Funds as a Mutuals Fund

  • Income fund is a type of mutual fund that is structured to provide maximum income. This income fund in order to maximize income selects investments that offer interests or dividends. Some of these investments include preferred... 

  • How Credit Score Works

  • Serving as an index to show the customer’s creditworthiness, the FICO score indicates how you manage your financial portfolio. Combining a number of factors through a system of mathematical formulas, the score shows the... 

  • Avail a No Collateral Loan

  • Many people looking for a loan may not be in a position to offer collateral or provide other equity to avail of a loan. For those in this situation, the no-collateral loans, which are called “unsecured loans,” may be... 

  • Adhesion Contract

  • An adhesion contract is about a standardized contract form that provides goods and services to the consumers. This is a legal agreement between two parties to do a particular transaction in which on one side there is full... 

  • Income Property

  • Income property is defined as real estate bought or developed in such a way to generate income. The real estate property can be developed or bought so that one can earn income by leasing, renting or property appreciation.... 

  • Bridge Loan

  • Bridge loan is also known as caveat loan. It is known as bridging loan in UK. Some times Bridge loan is also known as Swing loan. This is a type of short-term loan typically taken out for duration of 2 weeks to 3 years. This... 

  • Term Life Insurance

  • As the name itself suggests, term life insurance is so called as it offers coverage to an individual for a specified term or period say, for instance, 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20 years. In case the individual passes away during the... 

  • Trust Income

  • Trust income or income trust is the trust, which is holding the assets that are producing income. The trust income designates ownership vehicle, capital structure and legal entity for businesses or certain assets. These... 

  • Unicameral and Bicameral Countries

  • Governments have been made to form a system of functioning. Governments are divided into dictatorial and democratic. Democratic governments are further divided into unitary and federal. There is also a system of presidential... 

  • FHA Mortgage Loan

  • A mortgage loan insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is known as the FHA Mortgage Loan. The FHA insures loans for lenders and does not offer any loans. In case of a default by the borrower, then the FHA will... 

  • Creditworthiness

  • Summarily one’s credit worthiness is determined by the value of their credit score. A brainchild of the Fair Isaac Co. this value compresses all the information of your credit report in a single index of your creditworthiness.... 

  • Homeowner Insurance

  • Are we all familiar with the term insurance? In Economics, insurance is defined as a form of risk management which is used to protect against the risk of contingent loss. With the passage of time, different insurance companies... 

  • Insurance Brokers

  • Are you familiar with the term insurance broker? In simple terms, an insurance broker is a person who has specialized knowledge in finance and play a very crucial intermediary role between the insurance company and the customer.... 

  • Making Home Affordable Plan

  • The “Making Home Affordable” plan is meant to offer assistance to homeowners by making their mortgages more affordable and reducing the negative impact that foreclosures have on families as well as the economy as a whole. There... 

  • Obama Loan Modification Stimulus Plan

  • The Obama government is offering several incentives to all lenders for loan modification on the existing home loans of the borrowers. This loan modification stimulus plan is expected to help millions of struggling borrowers... 

  • 3 Different Credit Scores

  • Major credit report agencies include the big three, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. These provide customers with the decisive score of creditworthiness. Otherwise called the FICO score, the system of determining this value... 

  • Free Credit Score Report

  • A recent addition to the federal law instructs the agencies conducting credit checks to give at least one free credit report. The 3 major agencies Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian are required by this statute to submit a... 

  • Credit Scores report explained

  • The credit report gives information on all the debt instruments in your portfolio. More or less, it gives a pulse indicating what is happening to your financial deals. The FICO score takes all the information in this report... 

  • How to Raise Credit Score

  • A few characteristics are significant in the determination of your credit score. The order of significance varies with each factor and the borrower can do much to improve on their score by learning these. Past payments for... 

  • Credit Score Explained

  • The credit score is a summary of a consumer’s creditworthiness. Also called the FICO score, it was developed by the Fair Isaac Co. The Californian firm created a system by which different indicators can be used cumulatively... 

  • Best Mortgage Rates

  • Owning a good home with the all the features you would like is a dream that most of us share. Of course there are the people who were born with silver spoons in their mouths and for them buying a home is a one day financial... 

  • Fixed Rate Mortgage

  • The interest rate charged on the fixed rate mortgage does not change through the life time of the loan. Borrowers can work with the same rate for which they acquired the loan regardless of the economic times. Mortgages are... 

  • Refinancing your Mortgage

  • Taking of a home mortgage loan is a common thing with most house owners. The financial toll buying a house at once would take is too huge and the only other viable option is paying for it in a long period of time. Depending... 

  • Interest Only Mortgage

  • The interest only mortgage is an efficient instrument when one wants to buy an asset which does not have the possibility of significant depreciation. This can then be sold at the end of the loan period. Refinancing the principal... 

  • Subprime Mortgage

  • With the volatility exhibited by international markets, people find themselves victims to waves of negative sentiment. This may result from negative returns on your investments in sensitive sectors of the market. Thus a healthy... 

  • Risk Management

  • Any entity or endeavour is exposed to different types of risks, which can culminate in the loss, damage or destruction of that thing. Risk management is the process of identifying the different risks involved, assessing their... 

  • Underwriting

  • Underwriting is a process through which an insurer, bank or an investment house, determines whether a customer is eligible for their products or not. The products could be a mortgage, loan, insurance or shares. The term underwriting... 

  • Extended Coverage

  • Having coverage means that one is insured against certain risks, as mentioned in the insurance policy. An extended coverage is the coverage provided for risks which are not originally included in the policy. This is required... 

  • Catastrophe Modelling

  • A catastrophe can be a disaster and misfortune which occurs due to natural phenomena like an earthquake, hurricane, flood, tornado, wildfire, storm or hail. The other types of catastrophes can be man-made like war, terrorism,... 

  • Calculable Loss

  • In Insurance a risk is transferred to another party, by paying a certain amount called a premium. Insurance is a form of risk management, to cover for a probable loss. An insurance policy is a contract between two parties.... 

  • Insurable Risk

  • Insurance is possible only when there is a risk of something happening to the thing insured. Also the risk should meet certain criteria which are given in the guidelines and laws governing insurance. Insurable risk is better... 

  • Insurable Interest

  • The main purpose of Insurance is to cover the risk of loss, and not trying to make a profit. Insurance provides the compensation when the loss occurs due to various reasons. This brings the question as to what one can insure?... 

  • Accidental Loss

  • When a loss occurs suddenly, without warning and totally unexpected, which is beyond ones control to prevent or stop it, is called an Accidental Loss. In the field of Insurance, Accidental Loss has separate clauses attached... 

  • Claim definition

  • A claim is a statement expressing a right over something. Claim can also be a form of asking, or seeking to obtain something, which has rightfully to come to the person making the claim. Claim can also take the form of a... 

  • Insurer’s Business Model

  • The basics of an Insurer’s Business Model is the same as any other business, in the sense that profit is calculated by adding all the different incomes and deducting all expenses and losses. In an insurance business... 

  • Principles of Insurance

  • Insurance is the business of risk coverage and compensating the affected party for their loss. There are certain principles of insurance, that form the basis of this business. The first principle of insurance is the contract... 

  • Indemnification

  • Indemnification is the process of compensating or indemnifying, when a loss occurs. The indemnity amount is paid by the indemnifying party, to the party who has suffered a loss. The person who pays may not be the one who... 

  • Types of Insurance

  • Insurance is one of the best risk management strategies that one can follow. Insurance companies will cover the risk of loss in exchange for a fee, called a premium. When the risk is taken over by an insurance company it... 

  • Insurance History

  • Insurance has existed in some form or other since the very beginning, and there is no time in history when one can say that Insurance did not exist. Even in societies where there was no form of money or other financial instruments,... 

  • Mortgage by Demise

  • A mortgage, in simple terms is the legal transfer of an interest in property, or its equivalent in law to a lender to act as collateral for a debt – normally a loan extended in form of money. Note that the mortgage itself... 

  • Commercial Mortgage

  • A commercial mortgage, as the name may suggest is a loan taken against real estate. In other words, a commercial building acts as the collateral that will secure the repayment of the loan. A commercial mortgage is very similar... 

  • Security Interest

  • A security interest in simple terms means the rights conferred upon a creditor to take all or part of a property offered as security for loan. A security interest is an interest created by law or by legal binding agreement... 

  • Statutory Mortgage

  • A mortgage can be depicted as the act of transferring an interest in property, or anything equivalent to a property in law (a charge) to a creditor as collateral for a debt. Important to understand is that a mortgage isn’t... 

  • Negative Amortization

  • Negative amortization, also referred to as NegAm, is used to describe an instance when the balance on a loan continues to increase instead of decrease every month, with each payment that is made. The reason that this occurs... 

  • Mortgage Loan

  • A mortgage is when an owner generally for a fee of simple interest, provides a security or a right for a loan. A mortgage is known as an encumbrance to the property rights. A mortgage is a condition to obtain a loan secured... 

  • Interest Rates

  • An interest rate can be defined as the amount a borrower pays a lender for the use of money that is not owned by them. For example, a small business might borrow from a bank to start their business, and the lender receives... 

  • Annuity

  • Annuity is a term found in finance theory and it refers to a string of fixed payments that will terminate after a particular period of time. Some examples would be monthly mortgage payments, monthly insurance payments and... 

  • MacroEconomics

  • This is a branch of economics which considers the performance of economy as a whole. It is concerned with aggregates like national income, national consumption and investment. It studies the national economy and determines... 

  • Optimal Tax Theory

  • Overview Description Optimal tax theory is a study with an aim of finding the best ways to design or plan a tax to avoid inefficiency and economic distortion. The study encompasses such questions as to whether a jurisdiction... 

  • Income Effect

  • Overview According to economics, income effect depicts the effects of alterations in the prices on consumption. It is the change in an individual’s income or an economy’s income, and how that change will have an impact... 

  • Hyperinflation

  • Overview Hyperinflation, according to pundits, is an inflationary vicious sequence without propensity towards attaining equilibrium. In other words, it is an out of control inflation, excessively high and rapid inflation.... 

  • Dividend Stripping

  • Overview Dividend stripping is the process of buying shares just before a dividend is paid and selling off the shares in question after the payment when the shares go back to normal (ex-dividend). Dividend stripping is done... 

  • Stimulus Money

  • Ever since President Barack Obama signed the 2009 stimulus plan and started talking about the 2009 stimulus payment, many have been anticipating the upcoming tax rebate check. The government expects that the amount that will...