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Chris Dixon, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Oxford Advisory Group, knows what it feels like to build a business from the ground up.

The ART of Managing Income Risk, a new eBook from American Equity, is designed to help financial professionals frame retirement income risk more intentionally and apply that thinking in client conversations.

Retirement planning cannot end with accumulation. The real work is helping clients turn assets into income that can support the retirement life they want.

Protective highlights the importance of flexibility in preparing clients for retirement’s many variables.

How Nasdaq Differentiates Itself as an Index Provider and Strategic Partner

Record annuity sales¹ demonstrate growing demand for protected retirement solutions, but the industry’s next opportunity extends beyond selling more contracts….

Our agents get 5-7 qualified appointments per day — every day. No prospecting and our advisors handle everything from application.

While market headlines, interest rate movements, and economic uncertainty can dominate the conversation on any given day, retirement is not a one-quarter event.

How Sapiens and Armed Forces Mutual turned a single implementation into ongoing business transformation.

LPL Financial’s Joanna Kanakis explains how insurance organizations can unlock opportunities by equipping advisors to deliver more complete financial guidance.

For decades, the insurance software pendulum has swung between buy and build. It’s never been an easy decision, but at times it’s been clear there wasn’t a good solution available to buy (think about the late 1990s), or that an entire segment of the industry was buying packaged solutions (think CSC in the 1980s and 1990s, or Guidewire and Duck Creek for P&C carriers in the 2010s).

As client needs evolve, Protective is helping financial professionals tailor life insurance strategies through speed, ease, transparency and support.

As the Great Wealth Transfer reshapes the financial landscape, indexed life insurance can play a valuable role in helping clients preserve, grow and transfer wealth.

Explore innovative insurance solutions that bridge the gap between carriers and consumers for better relationships and efficiency.

The best way to prepare clients for risk is to address it head-on. Use the ART framework — Avoid, Retain, Transfer— to have a smart conversation about handling retirement income risks that sets clients at ease and empowers informed decisions to help improve retirement outcomes.

Knighthead Life has managed both momentum and expansion in the annuity markets, using its first year in the MYGA market to build a foundation and its entry into FIAs to show where it is headed.

In today’s retirement landscape, success isn’t defined by offering more solutions. It comes down to how effectively you position what you already deliver and how clearly those solutions connect to what clients value most.

Why commission management may be the most overlooked growth lever in your business.

Discover the Nasdaq-100 index and how it supports modern investment strategies with its unique methodology and transparency.