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Since Jan. 2021, insurance brands – life, health, auto & general – have accounted for 9.32% of estimated national TV ad spend and 6.25% of TV ad impressions during new-airing programming. Also, four of the five most-seen brands in that timeframe were insurance brands.
The need to diversify participation of women and people of color in financial services has never been greater and can directly impact a company’s bottom line, webinar presenters agreed.
TransUnion said the insurance industry is seeing more “soft fraud” because some consumers may be representing their policies incorrectly to save money.
While the hiring rate of Black employees in the insurance business is double that of other employee groups, Black workers are leaving the workforce at rates significantly higher than other groups.
Congress moved to actually take the stamper away from notaries, at least symbolically, with House passage of the SECURE Notarization Act last week. The bill now moves to the Senate for final approval,
What would you do if you won the $1.1 billion Mega Millions lottery? We ask financial advisors for some advice.
Financial advisors may find it easier to get into the business of selling registered index linked annuities (RILAs) after a Congressional committee Thursday okayed a proposal to lower some of the market entrance barriers.
Despite rising costs of paper, printing, and postage, the popularity and reliance on direct mail marketing by insurers remains strong…
Partly as a result of consumer demand for an Amazon-like service experience, and partly due to the threat posed by young insurtechs to disrupt the industry, traditional insurers are investing heavily in new high tech tools.
With inflation peaking at a new 40-year historic high of 9.1% today, InsuranceNewsNet checked with financial advisors and others to find out how this will impact retirement savings, and what investments strategies they recommend at this time.
Americans, in this post-pandemic era of raging inflation, crashing markets, and international turbulence, say they want and need professional investment…
The industry is caught in a perfect storm of increasing claims costs and a worker shortage. What does that mean for premiums?
Workers who move their retirement funds into mutual fund IRAs could get hit with significant unrealized fees that would shrink their savings, potentially impacting the quality of their golden years, according to a new Pew Charitable Trusts study.
Salespeople, marketers, and companies need to prepare for the next generation of social media marketing, expert tells the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Million Dollar Round Table, and improve their social media selling.
Insurers and employers were mostly searching for answers in the wake of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned the pivotal Roe vs. Wade case that granted women a constitutional right to abortion.
With a unanimous 28-0 vote the U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed the Enhancing Americans Retirement Now (EARN) Act.
Experts say that with inflation surging and markets tanking – and with stocks and bonds moving in concert during inflationary times – the classic 60/40 formula for asset allocation in portfolios may be in need an of update.
The volatile factors of government health care expansion, the fallout from COVID-19, the looming midterm elections, along with proposed legislative changes all could change the way health agents do business and potentially create market confusion for consumers.
Financial analysts, bankers, economists and others disagreed on whether the 0.75-percentage-point rate hike announced by the Fed on Wednesday will be effective and if it signals an overriding concern that the economy would slip into recession.
Property and casualty insurers are bracing for another year of record losses from catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, flooding, and other natural disasters already unfolding.
