Marketing and Communications
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81% of Annuity Consumers Want Living Benefit Guarantees, IRI Report Shows
By Joyce HansonMore than 81% of U.S. consumers in the variable annuity market wanted a lifetime guarantee of income, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) reported in a study released Thursday, June 3.
June 02, 2010
AXA Equitable Launches Social Media CampaignAXA Equitable Life Insurance Company will be using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to get closer to consumers.
June 01, 2010
Researchers Note Slowing in U.S. Companies' Offshoring Startup ActivitiesLatin American is now a preferred location for offshoring contact centers and IT functions.
June 01, 2010
A Moral Commitment to Your ClientsInterest among wirehouse brokers in going independent ebbs and flows over the years, depending on the size of recruitment packages and public standing and marketing...
June 01, 2010
Consumer Sectors: Ready to SpendJon R. Andersen William Blair & Company 312-364-8697 [email protected] Alberto-Culver's (ACV) portfolio of leading personal care brands (No. 4 in U.S. hair care), brand-building talent (five-year compound annual sales...
June 01, 2010
Stifel Strikes Deal To Acquire WeiselStifel Financial and Thomas Weisel Partners Group have entered into a roughly $300-million merger agreement, several months after Stifel acquired 56 UBS branches. If the merger...
June 01, 2010
Disorder on the BorderRemember the giant sucking sound? That was the catchy campaign slogan on which businessman H. Ross Perot ran as an independent in the 1992 presidential...
June 01, 2010
Get New ClothesYou probably recall Hans Christian Andersen's delightful story "The Emperor's New Clothes," in which a potentate parades before his subjects while supposedly wearing a garment...