Women in Insurance & Financial Services has attracted a top-flight list off backers for the WIFS National Conference it’s holding this week in Louisville, Kentucky.
WIFS started the three-day event today.
Before the conference started, organizers predicted the event would attract about 400 attendees, with about 40% having roots in insurance, 40% have roots in financial planning, and about 20% coming from related fields, such as accounting, banking or investment management.
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Prudential Financial Inc. is serving as the top-level “Leadership Circle” sponsor.
Other top sponsors of the event, and individual event components, include Penn Mutual, Ameritas, Lincoln Financial, National Life Group, the Wise Group, Nationwide Mutual, and MassMutual.
The conference agenda als includes a session by Karry Ballinger, an LTC planning strategist with Inertia Advisor Service Group, on tax-advantaged long-term care planning, and a session by Larry Schneider of the Disability Insurance Resource Center on breaking into the individual income protection market.