Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Witness Suggests Changing Social Security Indexing Method
By Allison BellProposals for reining in Social Security and Medicare spending surfaced at a recent federal fiscal responsibility forum.
July 06, 2010
IRS Reviews 529 Plan RuleThe Internal Revenue Service is conducting a routine review of the regulation that governs state tuition programs that qualify for federal tax breaks.
July 06, 2010
How to easily eliminate any objectionOnce we've made a habit out of hearing "objections" as "legitimate concerns" that we too would share, we're that much closer to helping the client - and ultimately, to a sale.
July 05, 2010
Nine ways to stay on top of mindYour clients don't sit around trying to think of who they can refer you to.
July 02, 2010
Spectrem: Millionaires Less ConfidentAffluent investors and millionaires were more nervous about investments in June than they were in May.
July 02, 2010
Uncle Sam Posts HealthCare.GovThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set up a health care and health insurance website that it recently promised to create.
July 02, 2010
CBO on Social Security: Pay Now or Cry LaterCongressional Budget Office officials have tried once again to suggest that the United States should adjust Social Security to increase the odds that the program will deliver the promised benefits.
July 02, 2010
Personnel Changes: Hartford, Assurant Health, Aflac, Allianz, First Mercantile, Dearborn, First Futurity, EntaireThe Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford (NYSE:HIG) has named David Levenson to be president of wealth management.