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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Transamerica Survey: Advisors Demand Flexibility from Retirement Plan Providers
By Warren S. HerschPlan advisors require flexibility from retirement plan providers to meet their clients changing needs, a new report concludes.
November 22, 2011
Rockefeller Warns NAIC Its Vote on MLR Will Hurt ConsumersThe NAIC is gathering for a vote on sending a message to HHS today on a key revision it wants to federal law. Will the big states go along or side with Rockefeller?
November 22, 2011
What is Life Worth?Our culture tells us life is priceless, but the insurance we depend upon must assign a dollar value on every person it ensures. No wonder people get so hung up on it.
November 21, 2011
Why Do Rappers Make More Than Classical Musicians?Advisors, like rappers, are paid according to the value they provide.
November 21, 2011
Shining a Light on a Shadow Industry: Captive ReinsurersIt is not often that an industry development excites the collective imaginations of state insurance regulators, high-rolling investment bankers and Wall Street lawyers. But that is what has been happening in recent years as more life insurers establish special insurance subsidiaries, or captive reinsurers, and engage in complex financing transactions....
November 21, 2011
A Woman’s World?In a post-feminist workforce that is increasingly run by women, the question persists: Are men and women really treated as equals?
November 21, 2011
Military Health Care Reform Leaves Wounded Warriors Entangled in More Red Tape (Washington Post)In 2007, following reports that troops who had suffered devastating injuries were not receiving the care they needed, a commission recommended that every service member be assigned a federal recovery coordinator to serve as a single point of contact to help shepherd the patient through the hospital system and fight...
November 21, 2011
Customer Service: Where’s the Bacon?Great advisors give clients great customer service when they do the due diligence to find out not only what the consumer wants but what the consumer needs.