Life Insurance
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Start Your Engines
By Bill CoffinLast year, my wife got me a most excellent Christmas present: a Formula racing experience. I would go to a race track in Millville, New Jersey, and get a chance to tear around in a baby Formula One car for a few laps - after getting some instruction in it,...
June 30, 2012
Lies, damned lies and statisticsOur top priority is to always keep our prospects and clients financially safe.
June 30, 2012
Start Your EnginesLast year, my wife got me a most excellent Christmas present: a Formula racing experience. I would go to a race track in Millville, New Jersey, and get a chance to tear around in a baby Formula One car for a few laps - after getting some instruction in it,...
June 30, 2012
2012 Industry Elite AwardsEach year, National Underwriter Life & Health salutes the best of the best in the life and health insurance industry, celebrating those who represent game-changing levels of market innovation, regulatory advocacy, industry reputation, community work, and emerging talent. Selecting winners from this years unusually strong body of nominations proved challenging,...
June 30, 2012
Rodney King (1962-2012)Some people are born to greatness. Other people have the conditions for greatness thrust upon them. And some people get caught in the crossfire between the two.
June 30, 2012
Threats to the Life IndustryIn advance of the Million Dollar Round Tables annual meeting taking place in Anaheim June 10-13, ValMark Securities President and CEO Lawrence J. Rybka gave an exclusive interview to National Underwriter Senior Editor Warren S. Hersch. The interview spanned a broad range of topics, including Rybkas presentation in Anaheim, his...
June 30, 2012
Across the Globe, the Regulatory Vise TightensDuring the 2012 annual meeting of the Million Dollar Round Table, held in Anaheim, Calif., June 9-13, editors of Summit Business Medias LifeHealthPro groupWarren Hersch of National Underwriter Life & Health, Brian Anderson of Life Insurance Selling and Daniel Williams of Senior Market Advisormet with MDRT members from New Zealand,...
June 29, 2012
Problems in the Fund BusinessAs ETFs and hedge funds have grown in popularity and much of the middle class has lost the kind of savings that traditionally went into mutual funds good old-fashioned equity funds have fallen by the wayside.