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With clients still skittish from the effects of the market downturn, many independent agents may be wondering where and how to continue generating new life sales. ...

It’s looking more and more like an attempt to extend the fiduciary standard to all financial services professionals will not be a part of any financial services regulatory reform legislation any time soon....

Everyone has a strategy for beating the market, and yet most all of the strategies offered for sale don’t beat the market, and most all of the mutual funds we offer don’t beat the market either....

“If Thomas Edison invented the electric light today, it would be reported on the evening news that the candle-making industry was threatened. ...

The high-net-worth (HNW) segment has long been a preferred niche market for insurance agents and most other financial services marketers. ...

LifeSecure Insurance Company, Brighton, Mich., has launched its new worksite long-term care insurance program, OMTM One-for-Many LTC. ...

W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc., Cincinnati, has announce the promotion of Michael S. Wytiaz, CFP, to senior vice president, broker-dealer distribution channel. ...

Effective March 1, 2010, the Annuities & Mutual Funds Division of Pacific Life Insurance Company has been renamed to the Retirement Solutions Division....

The rate of election for guaranteed living benefits (GLBs), when offered in a variable annuity (VA), was 84% in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to LIMRA’s annuity study....

Life Insurance Selling has just published the 13th annual BGA and Other Wholesaler guide, which includes alphabetical listings, contact information and product category listings for 45 BGSs and other wholesalers throughout the United States....