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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
"Sense of Congress" Seeks to Preserve Tax Incentives for Retirement Savings
By Arthur D. PostalTwo congressmen have introduced a resolution in the House seeking a "Sense of Congress" that current tax incentives for retirement savings should be retained in any reform of the tax code.
February 16, 2012
Are You Prepared for a Hard Market?Three ways to keep business flowing despite premium increases.
February 16, 2012
Health Care in Massachusetts: ‘Abject Failure’ or Work in Progress? (NPR)Six years after Mitt Romney implemented his health care overhaul in Massachusetts, it seems to be going strong.
February 16, 2012
Mapping the Effects of the ACA's Health Insurance Coverage Expansions (Kaiser Family Foundation)An interactive map produced by the Kaiser family foundation shows what percentage of the non-elderly population will receive health care subsidies under PPACA. The average, nationwide? Seventeen percent.
February 16, 2012
An Old Tool Used to Teach Prospects New Planning TricksThe Financial Planning Pyramid has been part of insurance training manuals since they were on parchment. Here's how you can reinvent it to meet the needs of today's clients.
February 16, 2012
NAIC Subgroup Suggests All 'Hybrid' Annuities May Need Reserve ScrutinyFelix Schirripa, head of the CDA Subgroup, calls CDAs synthetic hybrid income annuities, and GWLB products hybrids, and says they all might need to be reviewed in terms of capital and reserve adequacy given their market risk position.
February 16, 2012
What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem (Good)It turns out that the humble penny is a pricey coin. Specifically, each new penny coined by the government costs 2.4 cents.
February 16, 2012
Birth Control Hearing Witness: Can They Make Us Eat Pork?A priest asks how far mandates can go; a rabbi says religion is not just for the synagogue. With video.