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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
PPACA Work Dominates NAIC Meeting
By Mark E. RuquetAffordable Care Act implementation dominated the opening session of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners summer meeting.
August 16, 2010
Potter to NAIC: Be a Hero to ConsumersA consumer watchdog told insurance commissioners here that consumers are looking to state regulators to protect them from health care companies' tendency to put shareholders first.
August 16, 2010
CFA Rallies Support for Broader Fiduciary StandardThe Consumer Federation of America is urging members to tell the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to impose tougher investment product sales rules.
August 16, 2010
Tips for hot prospectingProspecting is a very important part of the LTC sales process.
August 16, 2010
IRS Posts Numbers for Non-U.S. InsurersThe Internal Revenue Service has published figures that insurers based outside the United States need to compute their minimum effectively connected net investment income.
August 16, 2010
Dodd-Frank: Feds Writing a Swaps DictionaryThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are asking for comments on the definitions they should use when implementing new swaps market statutes.
August 16, 2010
RAA Panel Packs the Conference RoomIt was standing room only at the first meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Retained Asset Account Working Group.
August 13, 2010
New Phoenix Firm To Court WealthyRyan Barradas has started WealthPoint L.L.C., a company that will sell legacy planning and life insurance planning services throughout the United States.