CIO
JUNE 13, 2022
CIOs are used to rapid change. New technologies hit the market, existing ones evolve, business needs change on a dime, staff comes and goes. All that together, though, is nothing compared to the turbulence that CIOs are seeing today. IT leaders are now contending with continued pandemic-related disruptions, geopolitical instability, and economic volatility — on top of those usual factors.
Zoominfo
JUNE 13, 2022
This month, we’ve got fresh updates across our sales and recruiting platforms and a couple of exciting announcements worth highlighting. In this video, Caroline Thompson walks through our expanded features within Engage, Chorus’ new Momentum Signals, and details of our Comparably acquisition. Comparably & TalentOS Big news! We’ve acquired Comparably , a leading employee review website — and the only platform showcasing workplace culture, salary, and corporate brand reputation data.
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FedSavvy
JUNE 13, 2022
We last examined Booz Allen Hamilton in August 2020. At the time, the company was experiencing steady business growth (which we also noted in our August 2018 blog) and continues to maintain that steady growth now. The company announced at the end of its fiscal year 2022 that it earned $8.4 billion in revenue, up 6.4% from fiscal year 2021, and increased its headcount to more than 29,000 employees worldwide.
Dataversity
JUNE 13, 2022
Every day customers are calling health care call centers, providing visibility into their daily reality – without even being asked. Whether or not you’re listening, customers are sharing details about the social factors impacting their health care decisions within every interaction. These factors, both positive and negative, are called social determinants of health (SDOH) and include: Access to […].
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
Netbasequid
JUNE 13, 2022
Decision-making in business is fraught with uncertainties. Through market research, companies reduce these uncertainties, build confidence, and achieve mission critical business objectives. Let’s see how it looks! Market research is a dynamic field. Whether management chooses a newer or older approach can have a considerable effect on the quality of decisions it makes based on the findings.
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Splash BI
JUNE 13, 2022
On-Demand Webinar. #SplashTrains: SplashBI best practices for admins and developers. Jump to abstract. Webinar Abstract. Get started on data analytics & BI operations with content built by SplashBI experts. This training session will help you with the technical skills needed for managing, automating, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting operations in SplashBI.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
June is Annuity Awareness Month! We will be reprinting our Chief Storyteller, Sheryl Moore’s most requested annuity-focused articles all month long; they will be indicated with “reprint” in the title. You’ll find these timeless articles are still relevant today. Annuity Awareness Month aligns perfectly with Wink’s top priority of ensuring that the public has the needed information and tools that are necessary, to succeed in their search for retirement plan and life insurance solutions.
Dataversity
JUNE 13, 2022
When data is not viable for integration across systems and processes, business users will seldom have the right coverage of data. If people lack knowledge about data and its importance logically, it often becomes a challenge, which leads to less impactful decisions. A data fabric is an architectural capability that can give organizations a “data […].
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
You wouldn’t go out and buy some fancy kitchen gadget without truly understanding what it does, right? Well, the same thought process might apply to life insurance. If you don’t understand how life insurance works, you may not be so motivated to bump it to the top of your list of things to prioritize. But that could end up putting your loved ones in a dangerous financial spot.
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Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
When it comes to planning for retirement income, clients face a number of risks. Each risk requires the right set of tools to manage it. And each client has their own retirement income style, which dictates the type of strategy needed to properly fund the client’s post-employment years. How to match the right retirement income strategy to the client’s retirement income style was discussed by Wade Pfau, professor of retirement income at The American College, and Alex Murguia, CEO of RISA, during
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Just as food sustains the body throughout its lifetime, an annuity sustains a client’s savings throughout their retirement. Just how important an income annuity is to the success of a retirement portfolio was the subject of a recent webinar by Tamiko Toland, [the former] director of retirement markets for CANNEX, and sponsored by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Indexed life insurance had a good first quarter, with sales jumping 18%, according to market research firm Wink. Click HERE to read the full Review in LifeAnnuitySpecialist. The post Week in Review appeared first on Wink.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Summer brings some temporary changes in the way many advisors work, and these can include a change of scenery, with some moving to second homes near the beach or mountains. Charlie Dunn , managing partner at Intergy Private Wealth , a Colorado Springs-based registered investment advisor, spends more than half his summer and most of his kids’ winter break in the mountains and has “very few in-person client meetings.”.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Millennials are more apt to buy insurance products such as annuities in the next five years in greater numbers than any period before, according to a report from a firm that sells such products. Around 80% of millennials are “pursuing” products “that offer growth and protection,” according to results of a survey conducted earlier this year by Lincoln Financial Group.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
With the markets experiencing significant volatility over recent years and Americans growing ever more concerned about their retirement prospects, the National Association for Fixed Annuities (NAFA) is among several other organizations trying to raise awareness among investors and advisors about annuities during National Annuity Awareness Month this month. .
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, June 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While nearly half of American adults saving for retirement (49%) feel that they are on track to reach their retirement savings goals, annuity ownership can truly differentiate their outlook for the better, according to a recent study from Athene, a leading provider of retirement savings products.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
JERSEY CITY, N.J., and WINDSOR, CT., June 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Building on the unique strengths of the two organizations, LIMRA and Verisk are partnering to deliver greater capabilities to insurers and recordkeepers to help them combat fraud and financial criminal attacks on their customers. FraudShare, LIMRA’s latest industry solution developed in conjunction with its members to address common industry challenges, helps leading financial services firms combat the growing prevalence
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Most people, and I mean the average person-on-the-street, most of Congress, as well as many investment advisers and most mass-media journalists, don’t know much about today’s annuities. . Click HERE to read the full story via RIJ. Wink’s Note: Another GREAT article by Kerry Pechter. I couldn’t agree with him more. However, one section has me scratching my head: “If contract owners want some protection against outliving their savings—the purpose of a real annuity—they have to
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Retirement Income Journal is changing its business model. . After more than 13 years (and almost 650 issues) as a subscription-based weekly publication, the RIJ website will become a free-standing online library and information resource, effective July 1. That’s just three weeks from now. Over the next few months, I plan to redesign the site. My goal will be to make the material that I’ve written and collected since April 2009 more accessible to visitors.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Every year, Wink CEO Sheryl Moore and RIJ analyze a segment of the annuity industry using Wink’s proprietary data. This year, we examine FIA sales since 2011: The era of private equity in the annuity business. Ten years ago, sales of fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) were largely confined to the life/annuity industry’s ‘Wild West’ territory. Since then, the FIA has gained respectability and emerged as one of the industry’s flagship products.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Nationwide has agreed to pay $5.64 million to settle charges brought against it by the New York regulators for selling new income annuities to people who could have annuitized their existing deferred annuities, possibly at higher income rates than the new annuities paid. Click HERE to read the full story via RIJ. The post Nationwide is 13th life insurer nabbed by New York appeared first on Wink.
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Rising interest rates are putting U.S. life insurers in a strong financial position — but clients are looking at news about inflation, U.S. politics and war in Europe and shivering. The collision of insurer strength with client fear is shaping some of the ideas behind recent life, health and annuity issuer strategy announcements. C lick HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
South Carolina — one of the leaders in the effort to create the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact — has withdrawn from the compact because of a conflict over long-term care insurance rate increase application reviews. Members of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission, the body that oversees the compact, voted in December 2021 to keep a rule that lets the compact review and approve requests for LTCI rate increases under 15%.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
The National Association for Fixed Annuities is helping to make this month the second annual National Annuity Awareness Month. NAFA worked with other members of an annuity support group, the Coalition for Annuity Awareness, to organize the first awareness month outreach campaign in June 2021. Chuck DiVencenzo, NAFA’s president, said NAFA started the effort because of the overwhelming financial and economic uncertainties Americans face, and their need to build lifetime income solutions into compr
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
The CEOs of life insurance and annuity issuers told the financial world that they need to continue to offer long-term benefits guarantees because what they do — and what you do — matters. Speaking at an online insurance conference organized by S&P Global Ratings, Ellen Cooper, who has been the CEO at Lincoln Financial for just seven days, said that Lincoln has changed its product sales mix, repriced many products, and changed or replaced other products in response to years of low interest ra
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
A top Blackstone Group executive told insurance sector watchers Wednesday that private equity firms can help life and annuity issuers earn higher investment returns without adding to default risk. Marrying private equity firms’ investment origination abilities with the life and annuity issuers’ hunger for high-grade, long-lived assets makes a lot of sense. said Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Two more states — Minnesota and South Carolina — have adopted an annuity sales standards update created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Michael Wise, the acting South Carolina insurance director, and the South Carolina Department of Insurance adopted a regulation to enact the change, publishing Document Number 5065 in the South Carolina States Register.
Wink Intel
JUNE 13, 2022
Your clients might be more likely to be using life insurance for long-term care planning and as a defense against uncertainty about estate tax rules. MIB Group has included data raising those possibilities in its latest monthly U.S. individual life insurance application activity report. The overall individual life activity level was 1.4% lower in May than in May 2021.
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