Responses To Slowing Economy: From Outsourcing IT To Using ASPs
By Marcella De SimoneByMore and more companies are looking for ways to streamline their information technology departments in reaction to the lagging economy.John Hancock Financial Services, Boston, ...
October 28, 2001
Suitability: Recipe For ConfusionSeveral days ago one of our neighbors held a meeting in their home. Our street was lined on both sides with vehicles that brought the ...
October 28, 2001
Don't Write Off Estate Liquidity NeedsBy John S. Budihas With the reduction of the estate tax and its one-year repeal on the horizon, many people thought they would soon be ...
October 28, 2001
Estate Planning Doesn't Need To Be Complicated To Be EffectiveEstate Planning Doesn't Need To Be Complicated To Be EffectiveByRecently, an agent asked me for some estate planning advice for a fairly typical prospect. Josephine ...
October 28, 2001
Outsourcing IT Saves Money, But Life Insurance Agents Aren't Buying ItOutsourcing IT Saves Money, But Life Insurance Agents Arent Buying It For all the controversy that has surrounded the application service provider model of software ...
October 28, 2001
Go Ahead And Talk With Clients About This 'New Normal' WorldGo Ahead And Talk With Clients About This `New Normal Worldby Linda Koco Our nations leaders, including our business leaders, seem unified in urging the ...
October 28, 2001
As LTC Grows, Oversight Is Fine-TunedBy Regulators and legislators continue to monitor current regulations and put stronger ones in place to safeguard long-term care policyholders, interviews indicate.Even as the National ...
October 28, 2001
"What Ifs?" Plan Idea Sparks DebateByWashington Although most of the attention on the issue of a federal role in terrorism insurance is focused on the property-casualty industry, the life insurance ...