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By Heather Strickland |
July 1, 2009
2009 Agent Media, LIFE Foundation study reveals how shifting product focus, changing sales trends may cause you to rethink
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By Heather Strickland |
June 1, 2009
Times are scary for investors. With advisors like Bernard Madoff on the loose, they're even scarier. Markets are falling, and few financial products are safe. Reports of fraud, Ponzi schemes, and misused funds from the Troubled Asset Relief
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By Heather Strickland |
June 1, 2009
Social networking sites are becoming more and more popular, and there is certainly no shortage of options. But how can you decide which one is best for your practice? For some, Facebook is too young and unprofessional. Others find Twitter to be
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By Heather Strickland |
May 1, 2009
Imagine a free Web site that can connect you with hundreds of prospects and offer you personal information about them - personal information that they are more than happy to share with you. The site is easy to use, and it takes only a small
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By Heather Strickland |
April 1, 2009
The past 12 months have been big for the annuity market. As indexed annuities face more and more media and government scrutiny...
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By Heather Strickland |
April 1, 2009
Florida officials and insurance professionals have been butting heads over the "Safeguard Our Seniors Act," a bill that limits the surrender-charge period for certain annuities, and caps the surrender charges at 5 percent of the
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By Heather Strickland |
April 1, 2009
A new product in the life settlement market could provide another option for clients who want to cash in on their life insurance policy. The product, called a policy value loan, allows consumers to get money out of their policy, as in a
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By Heather Strickland |
January 1, 2009
In mid-September 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued updated marketing and sales guidelines for Medicare Advantage (MA) and prescription benefit programs (PBP). Below, you will find an outline of the new regulations,
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By Heather Strickland |
December 1, 2008
On Sept. 16, Americans got to live a little longer. On that date, 21st Services, one of the leading providers of life expectancy estimates for the life settlement industry, officially adjusted its mortality tables to reflect more real-world
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By Heather Strickland |
November 1, 2008
As if agents didn't have enough on their minds with the SEC's proposed Rule 151A, the AIG bailout, and the current turmoil
