Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
January 01, 2004
The Benefits Of Using DI In A Buy-Sell AgreementThe Benefits Of Using DI In A Buy-Sell AgreementByOne of the major challenges faced by financial advisors with business owner clients is stressing the importance ...
January 01, 2004
A Patient ManFarming and investing might appear to have little in common on the surface, but you'd be surprised at how closely related the two activities actually...
January 01, 2004
Red Tape, Red Ink?Corporate 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...
January 01, 2004
Fanning the FlamesWhen Teresa Jensen-White of San Antonio first became a fee-based advisor in 1981, she was excited and inspired by her work. She earned her CFP...
December 08, 2003
MassMutual Adds Web Section For BusinessesNU Online News Service, Dec. 8, 2003, 2:47 p.m. EST -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass., has added a "For Business" section ...
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 ...