Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
PPACA: Health Policy Watcher Questions ACO Concept
By staff WriterGreg Scandlen, a longtime health policy specialist, is raising questions about whether the accountable care organization will do much to improve the U.S. health care system.
January 24, 2011
SEC Fiduciary Study Pleases Some, Frustrates OthersSome groups are welcoming U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff support for a uniform fiduciary standard for efforts to give retail customers personalized investment advice, but insurance producers say a uniform standard would backfire.
January 24, 2011
Ernst & Young: 2011, Certain UncertaintyLast month, Ernst & Young's Global Insurance Center released its 2011 Outlook for the life insurance industry.
January 24, 2011
Life Settlement Firm Confirms InvestigationLife Partners Holdings Inc. says it is cooperating with a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of its Life Partners Inc. operating subsidiary.
January 24, 2011
Personal coach helps producer see things in new light"If you want to go first class, go by coach," says Steve Zeitchik, owner of A1 Advantage Insurance.
January 24, 2011
SPARK Seeks Comments on 403(b) DraftThe SPARK Institute may recommend that 403(b) plan service providers transmit data updates weekly, rather than monthly.
January 24, 2011
Advisor pointer: How to develop charisma in 3 stepsAs a generation, boomers have a common personality type: the "Expressive." They are on a quest for freedom, meaning and new solutions, and are likely to be looking for an advisor with that "spark" or charisma.
January 24, 2011
Ready to RepealAmidst great anticipation, the new House Republican majority has carried out its pledge to repeal healthcare reform legislation by bringing to vote H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.