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... Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Are Your Producers Subsidized?4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Chris Burand This content has not been rated yet. If you don't think you're subsidizing your producers, you might need to think again. The average agency spends between $1.02 and $1.04 for every commission dollar earned (" Growth and Performance Standards," APIS, 2000) . The ... RENEWALS One source is renewals. Many contend that businesses in all industries lose money on new sales. Because the loss is erased with repeat sales, why worry? Most insurance renewals are definitely less expensive than new business. Although many agents believe that renewals are more profitable because producers are usually paid less, compensation alone isn't that significant. Hit ratio is the critical factor. The hit ratio on renewals is usually in the high 80s, versus 25% at best on new business. Although hit ratio is the key to making ... agencies. Even with higher profits, a producer's repeat sales (renewals) usually aren't profitable enough to turn an agency's loss into a profit. In fact, our studies have found that some agencies spend as much as $1.70 for every renewal commission dollar earned! HOUSE BUSINESS Because renewal profits alone can't support producer's new sales, another key source of subsidies is house business. House business is usually the most profitable because no one gets a commission on it. It helps to subsidize the entire agency, especially producers with small books ...
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... Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Administrative Expense Changes For The Life Operation 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , david goodwin This content has not been rated yet. Here's a letter I received recently: Dear Dave: I am the manager of a four-person Life/Benefits department of a P/C agency. The agency is set up with profit centers such as Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, Surety ... and Life/Benefits. Each profit center shares in the common overhead of the agency office supplies, salaries, etc. I have no problem having my department pay for what it uses. My problem comes from being charged roughly one-fourth of the common overhead for the total agency, for such items as agency administration, accounting, legal services, taxes, repair and maintenance, etc. Those agency costs are high and take a big chunk out of our department's income. Agency owners are firm in saying that each profit center must ... have no share in the P/C profits, no equity in the P/C agency, and perhaps only secondary interest in the inner workings of the agency. More important, Life producers pay' for Life leads by splitting commissions with the P/C house. If it's a fair split, the payment satisfies their obligation to the P/C house for leads. If, in addition, Life producers were also expected to help pay for the cost of producing those leads (i.e., the cost of running ...
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...nd that one or more employees would not have to be replaced, the staff should ...nimum Size: No renewals should be paid for Personal Lines accounts as they are...
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