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[ad_1] The Man Company hopes to achieve twofold growth and end FY22 with a net revenue of Rs 90 crore. Hitesh Dhingra talks to Vaishnavi Gupta about the company’s offline retail push, its foray into the sexual wellness and personal appliances categories, and its focus on tier II and III cities for expansion. Edited excerpts: Last year, you started selling in hypermarkets, supermarkets and pharmacies. Which other retail format will you tap next? We will start retailing from general trade or traditional stores in 2022. We have shortlisted around 12 states to start with, and appointed super stockists and distributors for the same. We expect this channel to contribute at least 10% of our total revenue in FY23. We will also expand our presence in hypermarkets, supermarkets, pharmacies and luxury format stores, from the current 1,200 to 2,500 stores by FY23. Last year, we collaborated with supermarkets like Spar, Spencer’s Retail, More, Reliance Smart, hypermarkets like Metro Cash & Carry, and Lulu, and lifestyle pharmacies like Apollo, Med Plus and Guardian. We also expanded our luxury retail format last year by partnering with Pantaloons. Around 20-25% of our total revenue is coming from these formats currently. Will you be launching more exclusive brand outlets, too? We currently operate 42 exclusive stores, and plan to touch the 70 stores mark by the end of this fiscal. Our plan was to achieve the 100 stores target in 2021, but the disruptions caused by Covid-19 halted it. We now expect to have 100 outlets by July, 2022. We plan to expand the brand in two formats: exclusive stores of 200-250 sq ft, and kiosks in malls. Targetting the age group of 18-35 years, we will launch new outlets in tier II and III cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, and Coimbatore. Why the focus on tier II and III markets for expansion? Around 45% of our sales comes from these cities. In tier II and III towns, we get good brand exposure. For instance, we are present in VR mall in Surat, and almost half of Surat visits that mall every weekend; therefore, it aids good recognition, reach and trust for the brand. Also, the rentals in these cities are comparatively lower than that in the metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi. Hence, we turn operationally profitable in the first two to three months in these cities, whereas in the metros and tier I cities, it generally takes around six months to turn profitable. Which product categories do you plan to foray in? We will add sexual wellness and personal appliances as new categories this month. In personal appliances, we are initially launching beard trimmers and shavers. In sexual wellness, we are coming up with two products in the ingestible category. These categories will initially be launched on our D2C platform as a test, and later, will be followed up by other marketplaces and offline stores. How much do online platforms contribute to your total revenue? Online channels contribute around 70% of our total revenue. Apart from our own website, most of the business comes from four marketplaces — Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and Myntra. We expect online channels to contribute 60% of our total revenue by the end of 2022, while 40% will come from offline channels. We generated a net revenue of Rs 45 crore in FY21, and expect to reach Rs 90 crore by the end of FY22. Our target is to touch the Rs 300 crore revenue mark in the next two years. What is lined up on the marketing front? This year, we will be focussing heavily on marketing; almost 40% of our total revenues will be spent on marketing. We will partner with regional influencers who can create authentic content in vernacular languages. We will also be investing in creating our own content, like podcasts and videos on YouTube. How differently did consumers shop during the pandemic? During the first wave, we observed that people searched for DIY products online, so we launched some DIY products using our existing range, including for face care and pedicure. These were small, single-time-use kits. Furthermore, during the pandemic, men have invested a lot in skincare. Therefore, we helped them create personalised boxes for their skincare regime. Additionally, our under-eye roll-on gel, lip lightening balm and lip scrub became our hero products. Read Also: Gillette India Ltd commences marketing and selling of Braun in India Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Investors have largely shunned nonbank mortgage stocks, and analysts believe the hard times are still ahead. Driven by a desire to achieve greater scale and gain access to cheaper capital, nonbank mortgage lenders dove headfirst into the public markets during the Covid-19 boom.  How could they resist? It was, after all, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for founders and private equity backers to cash in on historic origination volume.  During the euphoria, six mortgage companies – Rocket Companies (Rocket Mortgage’s holding firm), United Wholesale Mortgage Holdings Corp., loanDepot, Guild Holdings Company, Home Point Capital (parent of wholesaler Homepoint), and Finance of America Companies – debuted on the stock market with a combined market capitalization of $69 billion, according to HousingWire estimates based on Yahoo! Finance data.  But no one is popping the champagne these days. Executives of publicly traded nonbank mortgage lenders will instead have to sooth the fears of their investors in 2022, a consequence of the cyclical inevitability of higher rates, lower refinance volumes, and fiercer-than-ever competition, according to analysts who cover the sector.  The six companies that went public over the last two years have, in the aggregate, lost around $36 billion in combined market cap value since the first nonbank, Rocket, debuted on the market in the summer of 2020, according to an analysis of stock values by HousingWire.   Industry observers say the first few months of 2022 will represent a transition period to restore the supply and demand equilibrium in the mortgage industry, putting pressure on the stocks of the country’s biggest lenders. “We assume more declines in the stocks this year, just because we haven’t already seen the real competition intensifying. In the next few quarters, we should see a more challenging market,” Bose George, mortgage finance analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), told HousingWire. Goldman Sachs’s analysts wrote in a report to clients on January 6 that, overall, they remain negative on the group of nonbank mortgage originators for this year. They believe these companies will “remain range bound until the market gets comfortable with what refi will look like in a higher rate environment.” To illustrate the challenge ahead, look no further than loanDepot’s fourth quarter earnings. LoanDepot, which was the first nonbank to report fourth quarter results, disclosed that it made just $14.7 million in profit in the last three months of the year, down 90.5% from the $154.2 million it made in the third quarter. A year ago, largely on the strength of refis, loanDepot made $547.2 million in profit. The decrease in net income was primarily driven by a dramatic decline in gain-on-sale margins – 223 basis points, down roughly 60 bps from Q3.  In an earnings call with investors, CEO Anthony Hsieh said loanDepot was “fishing from a lot more pond” than its biggest competitors –  more diversified in its channel mix, able to generate tens of millions of top-of-funnel leads. They’re positioned to capture market share in 2022, he said.  Investors were nonplussed. LoanDepot’s stock at the close of business Wednesday traded at just $4.02 a share, an all-time low and down roughly 82% from this time last year. Whether it’s a harbinger won’t be known until others begin reporting fourth quarter earnings, but analysts generally expect a big correction across the sector. Analysts at Cider Knoll Holdings, an equity research firm specializing in nonbank mortgage originators, project earnings per share for 10 nonbank mortgage companies to contract 30% in the fourth quarter, compared to the previous quarter. The pessimism about nonbank mortgage lenders reflects market conditions. Since the Federal Reserve began to normalize its monetary stimulus to the economy in November, mortgage rates have begun to rise and origination volumes have slipped. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the 30-year fixed-rate will hit 4% this year, compared to 3.1% in 2021. Mortgage originations are expected to decline 33% year-over-year, to $2.59 trillion in 2022, according to the trade group. Margins have been – and will continue to be – impacted. The industry built up the capacity to handle about $4 trillion in origination volume, but simply won’t have that much business to vie for in 2022. It’s simple economics. According to JPMorgan Chase’s analysts, the primary secondary spread (the difference between newly originated mortgages and yields on securitized mortgage-backed securities), an indicator of profitability, has normalized after spiking in 2020. The spread, which was 1.94% in the second quarter of 2020, declined to 1.19% in the final quarter of 2021. Put simply, a wider spread implies greater profit margins for mortgage originators, less the agency guarantees and servicing fees. The refi landscape also changes dramatically with higher rates. Goldman Sachs says that at present, one-third of outstanding mortgage balances have at least a 50-basis point incentive to refinance, and if mortgage rates were to rise by 25 basis points, the eligible base would fall to 24%. Analysts noted that 24% represents around $2 trillion in potential volume, still a ‘healthy’ amount. But, by way of comparison, the share in the third quarter of 2020 was 88%.    Winners and losers Despite a challenging landscape for all nonbank origination lenders, some are better positioned than others to weather the storm.     Analysts are betting the biggest companies will fare better due to their scale and cash position.  “We believe higher rates will add another cyclical headwind to already-pressured mortgage gain-on-sale margins while also leading to further normalization in refi volume. This should make profitability more challenging across the space but particularly for lower-scaled originators,” the Goldman Sachs’ team wrote in the report.  Bose, from KBW, added: “Rocket is the biggest in the retail channel, United Wholesale Mortgage is the biggest in the broker channel, and Pennymac is the biggest in the correspondent channel. Within those channels, each of them will continue to be dominant. I feel like all three of those are kind of long-term winners because they’ve got such scale and efficient operations. The losers are a lot of the smaller players.”  JPMorgan’s analysts wrote in a report

[ad_1] In previous years, I’ve picked a long list and big stack of books I want to read that year. I’ve found that I struggle to stick with that list because I always find so many other books I want to read and that initial list makes me feel kind of guilty that I’m not following through. Instead of trying that approach again, I’m experimenting with something different in 2022: I’m going to set monthly reading goals. At the beginning of the month, I’ll pick a stack of books I want to read that month and I’ll focus on reading those books throughout the month. This way, I can make room for the many new or new-to-me titles I discover throughout the year. Plus, I can pick fewer books to read on the months that I know there is a lot going on. My Book List for February Here is my book list for February and why I chose each title. I didn’t finish three books from my January list, so I carried these over to February and plan to read them first. (Note: Inclusion on this list does not mean I am recommending or endorsing the book as I haven’t read it yet! So read at your own discretion and look for my weekly book review post to hear my honest thoughts on each title!) Beneath a Scarlet Sky So many of you have highly recommended this book and it’s high time I finally read it. I wanted to pick a really good fiction book to start the year off with! Win the Day I love so many of Mark Batterson’s books and have gleaned a lot from them, so I’m looking forward to many takeaways from this book! The Woman They Could Not Silence This book was chosen by Sharon Says So on instagram for her recent book club. I wasn’t part of the book club, but the title intrigued me. I’ve read half of it so far and have mixed feelings on it, but I’ll wait to decide until I finish it! Hero on a Mission I’ve loved other books by Donald Miller, so I’m excited to read this one! It has mixed reviews… so we’ll see what I think! Forgiving Paris This fiction book was highly recommended to me by multiple people. I’ve really enjoyed other Karen Kingsbury books in the past, so I can’t wait to dive into this. Unoffendable I’ve heard rave reviews of this book and think the message is so needed in this divisive culture. I am sure I will get my toes stepped on some from reading it! Forever Boy The author sent me this book and it looks like a beautiful story of what it’s like to mother a child who is autistic. Jesus Everlasting I am reading this book in consideration for a possible podcast topic/guest, but I’m also just excited to read it for myself. What are you planning to/hoping to read in February? I’d love to hear! [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] The Modi government had introduced a strict timeline for filing Income Tax Return (ITR). First, the late filing of ITR beyond the end of an Assessment Year (AY) was disallowed. Later, a fine for delayed filing beyond the due date was introduced. As a result, an assessee has to pay a fine up to Rs 5,000 for filing his/her return of income after the due date but before December 31 of an AY. The fine increases up to Rs 10,000 if an ITR is filed after December 31 till March 31 of an AY. Filing was disallowed beyond March 31 or the end of an AY. While fines for late filings were introduced, the late filers were allowed to file revised returns, if needed. However, if the tax payable is Rs 10,000 or above, a taxpayer need to pay interest at a monthly rate of 1 per cent on the outstanding tax payable starting from April of an AY till July of the year and from August to March of the AY, the rate of monthly interest becomes double to 2 per cent. The interest on tax payable is irrespective of the due date of filing return and late fee for delayed filing of return. The Union Budget 2022 has allowed late filing beyond the end of an AY. So, if an assessee fails to file his/her return of income within an AY, he/she will be able to file it in next two Assessment Years, but after paying heavy interest and fines. Union Budget 2022 disappoints majority of taxpayers Apart from the existing interests chargeable on tax payable, on availing the facility of filing return beyond the original AY, a taxpayer will have to pay an additional amount of 25 per cent on the total amount of outstanding tax payable and the amount of interest accumulated on it, if the return is filed within 12 months from the end of the AY. If an assessee fails to file the return even within 12 months (in the first year after the end of the AY) from the end of the original AY, he/she may file it within the next 12 years (in the second year after the end of the AY) but only after paying an additional amount of 50 per cent on the total amount of outstanding tax payable and the amount of interest accumulated on it. So, to avoid paying any interest and late fee, it’s better for you to pay the entire tax payable within a financial year as advance tax and file the return within the due date of filing return. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. The event is exclusively for HW+ members, and you can go here to register. Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market. It was marked by hard work, innovation and resilience. In the process, a historic $9 trillion of mortgage loans were closed over two years. For many, it will represent a highlight in their careers. 2022 Forecast series What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market Here are 7 trends to watch in the 2022 appraisal market The “Big Four” take on the upstarts in title insurance Now is a good time to plan for the next phase of the mortgage industry, which will be a different market environment. Understanding and knowing the path ahead, as well as how to navigate the new environment, will be crucial.  A potential strategy for 2022 will likely depend on whether the market transitions to a purchase-heavy mortgage market, understanding why people buy homes and implementing an effective system to work with potential buyers. The new 2022 houing market environment  The new market environment expected in 2022 is underpinned by four macro trends in the economy:  A tight labor market with rising wages and significant turnover. According to the December 2021 jobs report released by the Labor Department, average hourly earnings have increased by around 5% over the last 12 months ending in December 2021. Higher consumer prices will likely generate further wage pressure in the economy in 2022. At the same time, the unemployment rate has decreased to below 4% in December, and a record 4.5 million Americans left their jobs in November alone, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey. Given these statistics it is possible workers may see more work flexibility and higher wages in a tight labor market. The National Association of Realtors’ “2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers” notes that housing demand in 2022 is expected to be fueled by millennials who reach their peak home-buying age, strong domestic migration that moves family members closer together to take advantage of a lower cost of living and a high level of turnover in the labor market.   Inflation is becoming a focal point of policy makers, and the Federal Reserve has indicated it will be tightening monetary policy throughout 2022. Longer duration interest rates, including mortgage rates, have already risen and the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Finance Forecast (December 2021), forecasts that rates will increase moderately in 2022, but expect them to still remain low by historical standards, even at the end of 2022. Like many parts of the economy, housing construction may remain plagued by supply chain challenges, labor shortages and rising costs. This could possibly leave the housing market with insufficient supply to meet the potential high demand, and home prices may increase, but at a slower pace as affordability challenges could intensify. What are the implications for the mortgage market? It means that the refinance business could potentially decrease as fewer borrowers will have an incentive to refinance in 2022. However, growth in the purchase origination market may continue, according to the MBA’s Finance Forecast (December 2021), as more people buy and sell homes, and due to rising home prices. On balance, economists at the MBA expect that the total origination volume could be down for the year because growth in the purchase origination market may not be able to make up for losses in the refinance market. In 2022, growing the top line may be more of a challenge and could depend on mortgage lenders gaining enough business in the purchase market to offset headwinds in the refinance market. To achieve this difficult task, it will be important to understand what motivates buyers and how to help homebuyers. Why do they buy? Many potential reasons fuel home purchases, but job turnover, first-time homebuyers and migration are three main drivers, and they offer different opportunities for mortgage lenders to reach potential purchase borrowers. Here’s just one possible strategy for each homebuyer type, however, many possible strategies are available to mortgage lenders. The large number of job turnovers will likely generate many home-buying and selling transactions in 2022. This is where various social media platforms offer mortgage lenders the opportunity to reach potential homebuyers immediately after a job change. Potential first-time homebuyers are also now reaching their peak homebuying age and starting families, prompting them to begin their search for a home to call their own. In the first half of 2021, according to Enact, around 2.5 million first-time homebuyers, on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis, purchased homes. Around 80% of first-time homebuyers will put down less than 20% of the purchase price as down payment. That means mortgage lenders would potentially benefit from educating first-time homebuyers about private mortgage insurance, Home Ready and Home Possible products from the GSEs, and other low down payment products. Buy now or buy later is a big decision facing first-time homebuyers.  “The Great Migration,” as it’s been called, has some people moving closer to family or into more affordable areas as remote work has freed them from previous location restraints. According to the 2021 United Van Lines Mover Study, Florida, the Carolinas, Maine, Idaho and Vermont were some of the states that experienced large inbound migrations in 2021, while California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Michigan experienced large outbound migrations. Shifting market presence and effort to the places where people are migrating to could be a winning strategy for mortgage lenders. In 2022, the mortgage market could

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Collections stay on your credit report for seven years from the point the account first went delinquent, at which point this information will automatically “fall off” your report. However, you may want to have collections removed from your credit report sooner rather than later — particularly if you’re hoping to improve your credit score in the short-term. As a side note, you’ll also want to have collections activity removed from your credit reports if you believe some or all of the information is incorrect.  But, how do you remove collections from your credit report? 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To find out the exact details of the collections activity you’re facing, you have to start by checking your credit reports with all three credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. This part of the process is easy and free thanks to a government-backed website that provides free credit reports — AnnualCreditReport.com. Anyone can head to this website and receive a free look at their credit reports at any time. While free reports are normally only available once every 12 months from each of the credit bureaus, you can currently access all three of your reports weekly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Note that your credit reports will list all of your credit accounts, as well as your payment activity and how much you owe. Any collections on your credit report will also list the amount you owe plus any additional interest and charges that have accrued. You can also see who currently owns your debt in collections, as well as their contact information. Once you have accessed your collections information and the other details on your credit reports, you can compare the information to your own records to check for accuracy. Step 2: Dispute Incorrect Information If you find any incorrect data on your credit reports, you’ll need to dispute it with the credit bureaus and the company reporting the data. This is true whether we are talking about incorrect information regarding your accounts in collections, but it also applies to any other information you find. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), you can start the process by disputing the incorrect data with both parties in writing. Explain what you think is incorrect about the information, and try to include any documentation you have that confirms your dispute. In your letter to the credit bureaus and the company reporting the false information, you’ll want to include: Your full contact information Copies of your credit report with the incorrect information highlighted A comprehensive explanation of why the information is wrong A formal request to have the information updated, corrected, or removed from your credit report The CFPB also has several sample letters on their website, as well as contact information for each of the three credit bureaus. Note that you can get the mailing address for the company reporting any incorrect information directly from your credit reports. After your dispute has been submitted and received, the credit bureaus each have 30 days to investigate your claim. If collections activity on your credit reports is indeed false, they will remove the incorrect information from your reports. 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