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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Retirement Data: Insurance Ignorance; Disappearing Savings
By Staff WriterFew Americans think of annuities or life insurance as tools for reducing taxes, according to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.
February 10, 2011
Goodbye to GICsLife insurer sales of guaranteed investment contracts and other institutional, spread-based investment products stopped during the recent credit crisis and have just started to show faint signs of life.
February 10, 2011
Berwick: Medicare Advantage Changes WorkedDr. Donald Berwick says the changes that the Affordable Care Act made in the Medicare Advantage program are working better than critics had expected, and he is predicting that the act will continue to make Medicare stronger.
February 10, 2011
PPACA: Money TalkCongressional committees have been grilling many federal agency officials about the cost of federal health programs in recent days and have more health cost hearings on their calendars.
February 10, 2011
Sales challenges: How the advisor gets their groove backSales can be a challenge and sometimes it seems as if there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
February 10, 2011
Insurers to Treasury: Get Your Thoughts Straight, Then We'll TalkInsurance and reinsurance trade groups are asking the U.S. Treasury Department to get its act together before it tries to impose federal oversight on non-bank financial institutions deemed to be systemically risky.
February 09, 2011
PPACA: The Defunding Fight is OnThe House will likely vote to defund implementation of the Affordable Care Act when it takes up appropriations legislation next week, according to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
February 09, 2011
MLR Rule Comes Under Fire at CIAB EventRepublicans and at least one Democrat criticized the Affordable Care Act minimum loss ratio requirement today at a legislative meeting organized by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.