Who, what, where: January 28, 2015

Insurance agents, brokers and financial advisors who sold long-term care insurance coverage last year are invited to enter the 2015 Long-Term Care Insurance Sales Achievement Awards program. Each year, the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (AALTCI) recognizes the nation’s leading insurance professionals who market LTC solutions. The AALTCI conducts the awards program and publishes the names of recipients in the organization’s LTC Sourcebook. The program recognizes producers and has a variety of categories including both traditional and hybrid LTC products. Through April 20, 2015, there is no cost to enter the awards program for Association members.  For more information and the online entry, go to www.aaltci.org/awards.

Leading electronic signature provider Silanis Technology announced the integration of its e-signature signing service e-SignLive™ with GMC Software Technology’s GMC Inspire, an award winning customer communication management (CCM) platform, to deliver personalized digital communications to customers across channels. With an enterprise platform for CCM and e-signatures, insurance carriers and agents can complete transactions and any situation where a signature is required, quickly and easily, in any channel, while ensuring compliance with regulatory or company policy requirements.

Mobidart.com has officially launched a new free mobile advertising platform that promises to disrupt the world of mobile marketing by providing local business owners with the tools necessary to market themselves to mobile consumers in real time. Mobidart breaks into the mobile ad scene with an unparalleled cache of over 80 million mobile responsive websites and the ability to deliver nearly one billion mobile display and video ad spaces, making it one of the largest, self-contained mobile ad networks for local businesses in the world. Small and medium-size businesses can now affordably compete in their communities with the online behemoths that currently dominate the mobile ad space. Independent business owners, franchises, and other businesses around the world can use a free mobidart-hosted mobile responsive website and free mobile business listing. Regardless of their technical expertise, business owners can easily enhance their website with user-friendly tools, create mobile ads, and push out e-Coupon notifications to consumers in real time.

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) today announced the launch of Value+ IUL, an index universal life insurance product issued by American General Life Insurance Company. The Value+ IUL solution is designed to provide flexible business and personal financial protection at a market-leading price, and two unique options to access cash value in the policy without reducing the initial death benefit. “This product is the direct result of focus groups and interviews with life insurance producers from across America, and builds on more than 20 years of expertise in the IUL market,” said James A. Mallon, president, Life Insurance, AIG Consumer Insurance. “Value+ IUL offers meaningful guarantees, and flexibility in the form of special features and interest crediting strategies that help reduce costs and deliver maximum value. As agents and advisors can explain to clients, this is ‘Life insurance with Optionality®. Your needs. Your choices. Your way.’”