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Sep 25
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What happens when insurance commissions ...

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About this episode

In today's episode of The Daily Brief, we cover a deep dive and another story for the day shaping Indian and global markets:

1. Insurance Commissions: What Is IRDAI Changing?

 We’ll cover: 
●Why IRDAI wants to cut insurance commissions
●How the changes could affect insurers, distributors and banks
●Whether lower commissions could actually make insurance cheaper and improve coverage

2. How Much Does a Country Name Affect Its Credit Rating?

We’ll cover:
●What determines a sovereign credit rating
●Why countries with similar fiscal numbers can receive different ratings
●What the study says about India’s credit rating and the “country effect”

Audio Timestamps

00:04   Intro
00:29   The big insurance commission change
13:02   What drives a country’s credit rating?
20:31   Tidbits

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