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100 best sales & marketing ideas: 11 tech tips
How effective is your website, really? Do you have the ideal balance of high-tech and high-touch? Our experts can tell you.
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Assessing FATCA's impact on the insurance industry
While many provisions of the final regulations’ simplified or clarified the impact on insurers, certain provisions have ultimately complicated or raised additional questions on FATCA's...
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Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn’t
Forget everything you know about the brain. Done.
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Sebelius touts Obamacare in Europe
But many back home would like to respond to the praise she is paying PPACA while across the pond.
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A hospital CEO promises more price transparency and makes rivals squirm
Are we nearing the time when we can shop around for medical procedures?
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Washington state butcher spikes pig feed with weed
The butcher at Pike Place Market says he is getting better pork because of it.
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SIFMA names former Sen. Gregg as CEO
SIFMA announced Monday that former Sen. Judd Gregg has been appointed CEO and that Ken Bentsen, acting president and CEO, is now president.
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Neb. lawmakers override veto on retirement bill
The vote holds in place a deal that was struck to shore up the retirement plans of teachers, judges and state patrol troopers.
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CBO reduces 'Cadillac' tax, penalty estimates
“Cadillac tax” collections, according to the CBO, will be far less than originally forecast.
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What, me retire?
Americans plan on retiring later in life, finds a recent Gallup poll.
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Rising health costs remain top concern of affluent
The survey finds that rising healthcare expenses remain a top concern of 80 percent of mass affluent investors. This is down from 84 percent in...
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Employee financial wellness improved in first quarter
In the first quarter of 2013, 55 percent of low-income households better managed cash flow versus 50 percent in 2012.
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100 best sales & marketing ideas: 11 tech tips
How effective is your website, really? Do you have the ideal balance of high-tech and high-touch? Our experts can tell you.
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Assessing FATCA's impact on the insurance industry
While many provisions of the final regulations’ simplified or clarified the impact on insurers, certain provisions have ultimately complicated or raised additional questions on FATCA's...
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Did portability kill the credit shelter trust?
Estate tax changes have made credit shelter trusts useless ... right?
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Keep contacts up to date with LinkedIn
Use meaningful updates to reinforce your credibility.
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Get prospects to return your calls
Ever wonder why prospects don’t respond to your voicemail messages?
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Disability insurance: Overcoming barriers to entry
Concerns about less-than-ideal DI underwriting outcomes often hold advisors back. They shouldn’t.
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Obamacare: They're missing the point
A longtime agent says the MLR issue is a red herring.
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What my mother taught me about health care
I could report and write about health care all day long — which, oh yea, I do — but my cancer survivor mother has taught...
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“Star Trek” premiere and the problem with “fiduciary”
If being a fiduciary is all about building trust, what happens when no one trusts the word fiduciary?
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What’s the most creative marketing technique ever?
Consumers recently chimed in to tell us what have been the most creative marketing techniques they’ve ever encountered when being sold annuities and insurance.
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Disability Insurance Observer: The lottery
Instead of feeling depressed about the idiocy, why not harness its mind-numbing power?
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Lobbyists: Don't forget about the fiduciary standard
Industry lobbying efforts remain strong on the tax treatment of life insurance issue, but what about the fiduciary standard?
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Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn’t
Forget everything you know about the brain. Done.
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Sebelius touts Obamacare in Europe
But many back home would like to respond to the praise she is paying PPACA while across the pond.
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A hospital CEO promises more price transparency and makes rivals squirm
Are we nearing the time when we can shop around for medical procedures?
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Washington state butcher spikes pig feed with weed
The butcher at Pike Place Market says he is getting better pork because of it.
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Study: Kids are prejudiced against fat people by age 4
With more people overweight than ever, one would think being so would be more accepted socially.
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Up for discussion: Cost of cancer care too often avoided
Should doctors discuss the financial costs of cancer with patients?
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Special Features
100 Best Sales & Marketing Ideas
Whether you want ideas for seminars, referrals, generating leads or just plain old listening to your clients better, we have the sales and marketing tips you need.
2013 Outlook
Over the next 12 months, PPACA provisions will continue to roll out, a new fiduciary standard will be issued and industry tax increases will take effect. What else can producers expect? As we move into a transition year, check out LifeHealthPro's conjectures for the life, annuities, health and disability markets.
The Complete ELNY Saga
For more than two decades, the Executive Life Insurance Company of New York (ELNY) has been bled for billions of dollars while languishing in a state-imposed purgatory. Soon, ELNY will begin denying hundreds of compensatory payments.
Life Insurance A-Z
This alphabetical-themed infographic features easy-to-understand definitions of common (and not-so-common) terms that will help your clients feel more comfortable discussing life insurance protection concepts.
2012 Advisor of the Year
Through a very thorough nomination process followed by a series of interviews and vetting of candidates, we look to find a top producer who serves clients first and foremost, and who is a true cornerstone of a community.
Senior Survey 2011
The Senior Survey gives an uncensored snapshot of the hot topics pushing seniors' buttons. In this special section, find out how seniors build their nest egg, make an estate plan, finance their health care and where they live.
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National Underwriter Life & Health
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Mapping the PPACA world for agents and brokers
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Life Insurance Selling
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A career change gone right
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Senior Market Advisor
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The Big Bad Boomers






