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2024
April
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Back to Basics: Distribution Channel Overview
- Market Intelligence for Actuaries with Competiscan
2023
- Preneed Market Trends—Reflecting on the 2022 Life Insurance Council’s LIC Preneed Forum
- Hagerty Does It Well
This article first appeared in the August 2022 issue of NewsDirect. It is reprinted here with permission.
May
- Chairperson’s Corner: 2023 Welcome and Strategic Themes
- It Takes a Village: Insurance Product Development in the Digital World
2022
October
- Evaluating Distribution Channel Options for Individual Insurance Products, Part 2: Call Center and Digital Platform Sales Channels
- The Difficulties of Piloting Insurance for an Online World
August
- Evaluating Distribution Channel Options for Individual Insurance Products, Part 1: Agent Channels
- Hagerty Does It Well
May
2021
October
- Chairperson’s Corner—Emerging Content and Opportunities
- Human-centered Design and the Sales Pitch
- Why qualitative research is key to better insurance product design
- Regulatory Trends: AI and Insurance
August
- Technology That Creates Flood of Data Can Also Help Actuaries Make Better Decisions
- Tools of a DTC Marketer
May
- Marketing and Distribution: Service/Support and Regulatory Oversight of Sales and Distribution
- Risk Perception and Life Insurance Sales: Lessons From COVID-19
- Rebranding a Consulting Service: A Case Study
2020
2019
Issue 79, September - View | Download
Issue 78, May - View | Download
2018
Issue 77, September
Issue 76, May
2017
Issue 75, September
Issue 74, May
2016
Issue 73, September
Issue 72, May