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TEN QUESTIONS SENIORS SHOULD ASK BEFORE BUYING AN ANNUITY by Jim Summers Senior Americans considering the purchase of an annuity to help save for or provide income during retirement shou...

It can be overwhelming to consider all your insurance coverage options, because there are so many of them out there. You will likely get a lot of advice as you sift through all your options, and not all that advice will be worth listening to. So, it becomes important to know how to tell the difference between important and not-so-helpful advice.

THE EXIT INTERVIEW: AN INVALUABLE INVESTMENT by Tom Baker How you end the e...

THE FOUR FACES OF PROFITABILITY: PART I by Diane Herbert and Pamela Millard Even if you see a healthy profit when you look at the bottom line, you might want to consider your profitability...

THE FOUR FACES OF PROFITABILITY: PART II by Diane Herbert and Pamela Millard The first part of this article focused on two faces of agency profitability: Pretax profit and Cash Flow from ...

Are independent insurance agents on the verge of extinction? On the MisFortune 500 list of endangered occupations? You might think so after reading some of the press. For a different perspective, Kevin Stipe offers his observations of current and past trends and market conditions to prove that we’re not necessarily going the way of the dinosaur and the door-to-door encyclopedia salesman.

In the early 1990s a state insurance commissioner, in a Wall Street Journal front-page article, called insurance agents the 'buggy-whip makers' of the late 20th century. Several years later, you seem to be doing just fine, and in many cases, even better than investors in other areas. Kevin Stipe offers an overview of the insurance agency as an investment vehicle in this document.

TURN YOUR CLIENTS INTO WORD-OF-MOUTH MACHINES by Bill Cates I just conducted a special referral boot camp for a group of about 50 highly successful financial advisors. (I mean highly succ...

VALUING YOUR COMPANY STOCK WHEN OWNED BY AN ESOP by Irving Blackman Blackman-Kallick Copyright 1994, Irving L. Blackman C O N T E N T S CHAPTER: TITLE One: An Introduction Two: ...