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Small Business Will Benefit from PPACA: Report
Tax credits in the healthcare reform law designed to offset health insurance premium costs mean that small businesses will be one of the first groups to benefit from the legislation, according to a new report....
PPACA: Health Tax Issue Headed for Senate
The Senate is expected to take up as early as the week of Sept. 13 changes to the to the health care reform law designed to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate....
U.S. Heads up Global Retirement Market
The U.S. remains the leading retirement market, accounting for more than half of the world’s total retirement assets of nearly $28 trillion, according to a new report....
Bank Annuity Sales Fell in 2Q
Bank annuity sales fell to $2.8 billion in June from $3.6 billion in the same month a year earlier, a monthly survey by Kehrer-LIMRA finds....
AALU Speaks Up on Fiduciary Issue
Oversight of insurance professionals when selling insurance products registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission is different than for other types of security products, the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting says....

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Highlights from the MDRT 2010 Annual Meeting in Vancouver


More than 6,000 top-producing life insurance professionals from around the globe attended MDRT’s 2010 annual meeting in Vancouver, held June 13-17. Here are web exclusives on some of the main platform and focus sessions.
Hightlights from Day 2 of MDRT’s Main Platform
Hightlights from Day 3 of MDRT’s Main Platform
Keys to Doing Business With (Virtually) Everyone
The Second Sale: Winning Over Underwriters For Coverage
Three Strategies That Create A Loyal, Passionate Business Team
How to Build Long-Term Relationships

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Bill Coffin
Editor-in-Chief
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Thu, 02 Sep 2010
If you have been following the retained asset account situation – and I can’t imagine many readers of this blog who have not – then you’ll know that Prudential is at the heart of it. Not that Prudential is necessarily doing anything wrong, but the Bloomberg article that touched this whole issue off did so [...]

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To The Point

Maintaining the High Ground

 

As we predicted years ago, the chickens are now coming home to roost. The chickens in this instance being the abuses that have plagued the life settlement business almost from the start.

 

 

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CLASS Could Be A Boon
The voluntary CLASS Act long term care program may not work very well -- but it just might give millions of workers, and employers, a taste for the good stuff.
Boomers
Boomers, Retirement Plans And Guaranteed Income
Surprise, surprise: The stock market doesn't always go up 30% per year -- or at all. Life insurers understand that.
Product Ideas For Assured Income Flows
How about indexed immediate annuities with LTC benefits? Cary Lakenbach thinks figuring out a producer compensation solution might be worth it.
Help Clients Reduce Expenses To Boost Retirement Wherewithal
Money saved is money that your client does not have to count on earning.

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