Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
MetLife's Joe Jordan: How To Manage Behavioral Finance
By Staff WriterAs the economy continues to improve, advisors have one of the greatest opportunities to capture their piece of the pie. Yet it is important to remember that emotions play a significant role in the financial decision-making process.
November 03, 2009
HUB May Go ShoppingAn insurance broker has borrowed $200 million from an existing credit facility, and it says it may use some of the cash for "possible acquisitions."
November 03, 2009
CBO Combs Through H.R. 3962The Congressional Budget Office says even low-end health coverage would still be expensive if the House health bill worked as expected, and that repealing health insurers' "antitrust exemption" would do little to cut costs.
November 03, 2009
PIA: SBA Might Crowd Out Health AgentsOne section of H.R. 3962 could let the U.S. Small Business Administration become the dominant intermediary in the small group health insurance market, a producer group says.
November 03, 2009
Phoenix Launches SaybrusAn insurer has started a unit that will market wholesaling and insurance expertise to other financial services companies.
November 03, 2009
Long Term Care: Cutting through the cost questionHere's a sneak peek of a detailed LTC success plan from our long-term care expert, Ed McCarthy.
November 03, 2009
Sun Life Turns To GuysSun Life Financial Inc. will be using humor to try to build awareness of the company through a television, print and online advertising campaign.
November 03, 2009
New York To Insurers: Tell Us How You Really DidThe New York State Insurance Department is ordering life insurers in the state to adjust assumptions about investment portfolio calls, prepayments and defaults to reflect the true state of the economy.