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How Admin Support Staff Can Protect Agents From Compliance Problems
By Dennis GronerThe old image of the agent who worked alone and did everything is outdated. Agents who want to be effective and productive need administrative support ...
August 03, 2008
Dodd Suggests Some Senate Action Possible Soon On Not-Quite OFCSen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, suggested that historic legislation could be passed this year that would begin the process of ...
August 01, 2008
SEC hearings prompt much soul-searching[Editor's note: A recent blog entry at www.SeniorMarketAdvisor.com elicited a great debate regarding the SEC's controversial new proposal. Here's a sampling of emailed comments: visit our Web site for the full discussion.] AFTER
August 01, 2008
Tax breaks loom largeInsurance carriers have Uncle Sam partially to thank for the public's apparent growing interest in combination life insurance-long term care insurance products. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, new provisions adopted as part of the Pension Protection
August 01, 2008
Business succession help availableFewer than 10 percent of closely held businesses, usually small companies, pass on to a third generation and only 30 percent even pass on to a second generation, according to Sun Life Financial. When one considers that 90 percent of U.S. businesses
August 01, 2008
Tax breaks loom largeInsurance carriers have Uncle Sam partially to thank for the public's apparent growing interest in combination life insurance-long term care insurance products. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, new provisions adopted as part of the Pension Protection
August 01, 2008
Clients get choice of inflation protectionChoice is something Americans have come to expect, whether it's at the ice cream shop or at their financial advisor's office. New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corp. has an annuity feature that will give advisors the chance to let
August 01, 2008
Consumer LTCI education lackingConventional wisdom says human beings gain in knowledge and experience as they grow older, and that holds true for many of life's challenges. But when it comes to at least one facet of aging, adults are lacking in one area of awareness: long