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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Action items for market survival
By Daniel WilliamsFor this issue of Market Conduct & Suitability, Jay Grubb of Key Financial Partners, who is a financial, retirement and estate planning specialist in Gwinnet Country, Ga., provides his thoughts on how advisors can survive and continue to do the
December 23, 2008
Stretch drug budget dollars80%: Percentage of medications with a generic option. 67%: Level of generic drug utilization for all users in the United States. $13 billion: Expected sales lost to expired patent protection in 2008. 11%: Percent reduction in ann
December 23, 2008
Retaining Clients And Building Sales Key In 2009: SurveyAsset managers and other financial services executives believe maintaining client relationships and sales are their 2 biggest challenges for 2009, according to Cerulli Associates Inc., Boston.
December 23, 2008
Fed Agency Rates Nursing HomesThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has for the first time rated each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.
December 23, 2008
Liddy: 70% Of AIG Must Be Sold To Pay Back LoanAmerican International Group Inc.'s top executive says 70% of the company must be sold off to repay its federal loan.
December 22, 2008
AALU: SEC Rule 151A Could Affect Some Life ProductsThe new Securities and Exchange Commission rule subjecting equity indexed annuities to federal oversight appears to apply only to annuities, but it also could affect indexed life products, says the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting.
December 19, 2008
Dental Plan Offers Waiting Period FlexibilityAssurant Employee Benefits will make the waiting periods for the Freedom Preferred voluntary dental plan easier to adjust.