Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the Marketing and Distribution Section initiatives.

Description: Letter from the Editor

Description: This article examines the relationship, future and current, between insurance agents and technology and determines that technology can enhance/optimize agents.

Description: A new wave of life insurance buyers is finally here - but are we ready? In this article, Richard De Sousa shares proprietary research about the Millenial generation, its beliefs related to life insurance, and its preferences when it comes to learning about, purchasing, and engaging with life insurance products, advisors and companies. Also explored is the foundational role that technology and wellness play in driving the kind of experience that will attract millenial buyers. After reading this article, you will better understand the characteristics of this new generation as well as the innovative companies that are targeting them, and learn about different and novel ways to better engage with customers and enhance the value of your own products and services.

Description: Editor's column for the May 2019 issue of NewsDirect.

Description: One of the most vibrant and fastest-growing insurance market niches worldwide is the market for high-face-amount universal life (UL) insurance products.

Description: This article discusses how the most successful insurance companies acquire profitable customers, who stay with you for a lifetime, through direct marketing via prospect data bases .

Description: I’d like to start a movement to banish the term “life expectancy” from the retirement planning lexicon. It is one of the most abused and dangerously misunderstood concepts in retirement planning.

Description: A discussion on a study that unveils significant findings among mass-market consumers and their attitudes about retirement.