Insurance agents often recommend coverage that will replace the equivalent of 15 times your annual income.
When sold by insurance agents, charitable plans often involve buying life insurance or variable annuities.
Ethical question: Should charities be paying finder's fees to insurance agents who bring in donations?
How many financial advisors, stock brokers or insurance agents do you attempt to integrate?
Insurance agents have largely relied on churches and other community groups as client pools.
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Prudential primarily relies on retail banking network for distribution activity with sales made via insurance agents.
As a business owner, you likely know attorneys, accountants, life insurance agents and bankers.
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Some life-insurance agents quit the business, and many who remained moved up-market in search of bigger commissions.
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By 2004 dozens of the schemes' participants--doctors, insurance agents, medical technicians, Internet brokers and nephrologists--were arrested and charged.
That includes the legion of stockbrokers and insurance agents whose income takes the form of commissions on financial products.
Some insurance agents push "hybrid" policies that combine long-term care with life insurance as a way to lower costs.
CINF, which was started by independent insurance agents, has an agent-centered business model.
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Keep in mind that some brokers or insurance agents may be part-time fiduciaries for their investment advice but nothing else.
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This is a concept that too few financial advisors and insurance agents grasp when they oversell insurance or investments for retirement.
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As insurers throw auditors, fraud-detection, and insurance agents overboard, I fear that health care costs will increase more than the formula suggests.
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Also, insurance agents and Medicare Advantage and Part D brokers have more regulations against switching coverage plans and giving out marketing gifts.
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However, for small businesses, self-employed people, or customer-focused individuals like insurance agents or financial advisers, it could be a really handy tool.
Right now, the opposition is led by turf-conscious state insurance regulators, consumer groups, member-owned insurance companies and trade groups representing independent insurance agents.
Perhaps surprisingly, insurance agents and brokers never have had much of a legal duty to get the best possible deal for their clients.
Charles Symington of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America is opposed to the federal plan and questions the figures in the study.
Operations have started with 40 employees in the Cambodian office, with plans to add insurance agents and reach 1, 000 employees in the next 3 years.
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Insurance agents are eager to help you, yet their goal is to sell you the most coverage possible, even if you don't need so much.
On the other hand, stockbrokers and insurance agents can give out names of clients because they are not RIAs who are held to the higher standard.
This is the fourteenth consecutive year that I have attended the conference, geared to lawyers, accountants and insurance agents who cater to high net worth clients.
For example, providing after-sale customer management for retail insurance agents?
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But brokers, accountants and insurance agents all have their biases.
The project was intenced for insurance agents appraising car accidents?
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Stockbrokers and insurance agents generally work on commission, while Registered Investment Advisors tend to charge either an hourly fee or a percentage of assets under management as compensation.
Last but not least, your wealth manager should take a holistic approach to managing your portfolio by initiating cooperation with your other advisers, such as accountants, lawyers and insurance agents.
It's easy to see the appeal of donation plans to the middlemen: With commissions squeezed by on-line outfits and other low-cost competitors, brokers and insurance agents are casting about for new products to sell.
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