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State-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Tuesday launched a single-premium smart pension plan that offers a range of annuity options for Single Life as well as Joint Life type of annuities. The plan was launched by Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju along with Siddhartha Mohanty, CEO & MD of LIC, in presence of senior officials of the finance ministry and LIC. The Non-Par and Non Linked plan has several liquidity options available for partial/ full withdrawal as per terms of policy, LIC said in a statement. The Minimum Purchase Price is Rs 1,00,000 with incentives for higher purchase price and modes of annuity payments allowable are yearly, half yearly, quarterly or monthly, it said. An option to take immediate annuity by NPS subscriber is a special feature, it said. The options available on survival of the annuitant varies as per the annuity option chosen at the time of inception. The amount payable after death of annuitant will be as per the option chosen b
LIC Mutual Fund on Friday launched its Multi Asset Allocation Fund, an open-ended scheme that invests in equity, debt, and gold to achieve long-term capital appreciation. The New Fund Offer (NFO) opened on January 24 and will conclude on February 7. The scheme will reopen for continuous sale and repurchase on February 18, the company said in a statement. The scheme's benchmark is a combination of 65 per cent Nifty 500 TRI, 25 per cent Nifty Composite Debt Index, and 10 per cent domestic gold prices, it added. "Hybrid mutual funds saw a 27 per cent surge in assets under management in 2024, increasing from Rs 6.90 lakh crore in January to Rs 8.77 lakh crore in December according to data published by Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). "The multi-asset allocation funds saw significant growth in the AUM under hybrid category. Currently, this reflects a clear investor inclination towards hybrid funds and our new fund is ideally suited to cater to their interests," R K Jha, ...