Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Consumer mistrust leaves retirement planning in the dust
By Sam J. Friedman, Val SrinivasLack of trust prevents many consumers from seeking the financial advice they desperately need to fund their golden years.
April 01, 2013
HHS finalizes Medicaid ruleHealth officials on Friday issued a final rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries as part of PPACA.
April 01, 2013
Fla. legislators to Gov. Scott: Keep health insurance perkGov. Rick Scott proposed having himself and other high-ranking state officials pay the same for health insurance as rank-and-file workers. He got shot down.
April 01, 2013
Twisted logic on Capitol Hill where “Congressional Hearing” often isn’tWhen Wendell Potter sounds off about the health insurance industry, people listen -- and for good reason.
April 01, 2013
Three years on, states still struggle with health care law messagingThree years after PPACA was made law, the American public now knows even less about health care reform than it did before.
April 01, 2013
Our money shows that the U.S. really consists of about 15 statesIt turns out that, according to our money, the U.S. is really made up of about 15 economic states that have little to do with political state boundaries.
April 01, 2013
Income and allocation strategies in a time of low ratesOne solution that provides principal protection and the potential for market gains is a fixed indexed annuity.
April 01, 2013
States getting FFEs have a lot of state-federal role wrangling to doThe NAIC's Working Group has charged itself with providing a forum for discussion of and guidance on the alternatives to implementing a state-based exchange.