Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Red Tape, Red Ink?
By Marlene Y. SatterCorporate malfeasance. After-hours trading. Mutual fund misdeeds. Breakpoints. A market that lost more than 40% of its value in the last three years. Rampant consumer...
December 04, 2003
Surveys: Use em Or Lose emFirms from all segments of the insurance and financial services industry are increasingly pumping out surveys.Every week, it seems, new statistical reports come out on ...
November 21, 2003
Dalbar Expands 401(k) CertificationNU Online News Service, Nov. 21, 2003, 11:50 a.m. -- Dalbar Inc., Boston, says it will expand its certification of financial advisors who advise ...
November 07, 2003
MetLife To Spend $110 Million On RGA StockNU Online News Service, Nov. 7, 2003, 1:21 p.m. EST -- Reinsurance Group of America Inc., St. Louis, a publicly traded reinsurer, says it ...
November 06, 2003
From The Editor-in-ChiefIts hard to believe, but our first e-newsletter, the LTC e-Wire, is celebrating its second anniversary this month.When we launched this product back in ...
November 06, 2003
Agency Succession Planning: Options And OpportunitiesAgency Succession Planning: Options And OpportunitiesOn a weekly basis, we confront countless agency owners who have spent their entire careers in the business. They now ...
November 03, 2003
RGA To Raise $400 Million Through Stock SaleNU Online News Service, Nov. 3, 2003, 12:23 p.m. EST -- Reinsurance Group of America Inc., St. Louis, a publicly traded reinsurer, is trying ...
November 01, 2003
The Waking DreamMost of us have spent the better part of our lives seeking happiness, satisfaction, meaning, and peace, only to find it is an illusory state. We set goals -- for more money, wealth, friends, love, better looks, a better body -- only to find that once