CIO

JULY 26, 2022

All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. CIOs who are purposefully positive and responsible, with a focus on integrity, tend to inspire others, says Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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Crayon

JULY 26, 2022

If you’re working with a sales team actively involved in competitive deals, you’re probably familiar with battlecards. Battlecards are a fundamental resource to help your sales team win more deals when frequently faced with familiar competitors.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2022

Go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on accurate business data to prioritize, engage, and serve their customers to the fullest. But unreliable data spread across siloed, disconnected systems too often impedes a team’s ability to achieve its revenue goals. Application programming interfaces (APIs) make it easy to connect revenue teams with high-quality data across multiple systems.

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mention

JULY 26, 2022

Scheduling content in advance is a great way to stay organized with your brand’s social media presence and online strategy. Through the use of a content calendar tool, the ability to schedule content can now be quick and centralized providing you with a macro view of your online communications. The Calendar View can be found in the Publish tool within the Mention platform.

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Dataversity

JULY 26, 2022

Week after week, month after month, shareholder cyber lawsuits hit the news. Capital One settles for $190 million. A class-action lawsuit was filed against Ultimate Kronos Group for alleged negligence regarding a ransomware attack, identifying a poor cybersecurity system as the root problem. These two news items in recent months underscore the risks companies face in their ongoing war […].

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Netbasequid

JULY 26, 2022

In a previous post, we touched on secondary market research, but didn’t go into depth. This one will clarify what it is, why it’s valuable and what to do with it! Our other post focused on primary market research––including what it is, the methods used, and both the advantages and disadvantages of using it as a data source. As a quick summary, primary market research is a form of research where data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted through an organization’s internal efforts.

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Paul Turnley

JULY 26, 2022

If you are in the Chicago area and haven’t already registered for the Data Insights Summit, please join me. I will be teaching a full-day workshop specifically focused on Power BI enterprise-scale solution best practice design. With in-person events resuming, I’m excited to get back into the classroom and teach what I love so much.

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GoodData

JULY 26, 2022

Learn about the benefits of scheduling reports in GoodData, from increasing productivity to encouraging more users to utilize analytics.

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Datapine Blog

JULY 26, 2022

Table of Contents. 1) What Is A Small Business Dashboard? 2) What Are Small Business KPIs? 3) Why Do You Need Small Business Dashboards. 4) Small Business Dashboard & KPIs Examples. The times were data analysis was segregated to big enterprises that had the necessary resources to carry it out are long gone. Today, thanks to the rise of self-service BI tools, the analytical doors have been opened to a wider audience.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

Equitable Financial Life Insurance agreed on July 18 to pay $50 million to settle SEC fraud charges alleging that it sent “materially misleading” account statements to 1.4 million annuity holders over the past six years. Equitable, a target of critics who assert the company is predatory toward teachers, a core market for the annuities industry, left out the products’ two main fees and 97% of the revenue from the contracts, the SEC said.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The Modern enterprise needs to use tools that are secure, easy to access and maintain while supporting complex functions in a fast-moving business environment. One stand out need driving much attention is the need to provide secure modern working to users accompanied by a high quality user experience. These two opposing forces typically create a problem in delivery.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

DALLAS, July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire PHP Agency , an industry-leading field marketing organization (“FMO”) based in Addison, Texas.

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Fuld

JULY 26, 2022

A time of reckoning. Following a decade-long bull run, exuberance in the public markets is in its final stages. This is a consequence of influential paradigm shifts – not just in financial markets, but in the economic outlook, geopolitical changes, and the rising interest rate regime – all of which are putting downward pressure on assets of all classes.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

The classic 60/40 portfolio, where investments are split 60% in stocks and 40% in bonds, is merely resting and isn’t dead, Morgan Stanley’s chief cross-asset strategist said, after the strategy had its deepest first-half dive since 1988. The approach offers higher estimated long-term returns in the U.S. and Europe over the next decade than at most points over the last 10 years, Andrew Sheets wrote in a note dated Sunday.

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Elegant BI

JULY 26, 2022

Smarten is pleased to announce the launch of its Mobile Application for Smarten Augmented Analytics. This native app has a seamless user interface for a great user experience (UX). Smarten Mobile app is available for iOS and Android. Installation is easy. Smarten CEO, Kartik Patel says, “The availability of Smarten augmented analytics on a mobile device encourages user adoption and provides support for business intelligence investments and data democratization.”.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

Financial advisors are competing with video social media platforms to provide financial advice to Gen Z investors — and losing, according to a recent survey. Just 24% of Gen Z consumers rely on a financial advisor for financial advice, marketing company Vericast says it found in a survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Advisor IQ.

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Fuld

JULY 26, 2022

For those of you who remember the X-Files (it was a show about extra-terrestrial life), the tagline for the show was “The truth is out there”. This is also the mantra for competitive intelligence. We aren’t seeking to discover whether superior life forces exist, but we are looking to uncover real impact issues for our business and create action plans to address them.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF ) (the “Company”), a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through FNF’s wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G, will release second quarter 2022 earnings after the close of regular market trading on Tue

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

MILWAUKEE , July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Northwestern Mutual announced today that the company earned its fourth consecutive perfect score on the Disability Equality Index (DEI) – one of the most trusted and comprehensive national benchmarks for measuring disability inclusion in the workplace. “Northwestern Mutual continues to take meaningful steps to strengthen its culture of inclusivity – one in which every employee feels celebrated and supported,” said Amy Hanneman , vice

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

Variable annuities are big business. According to LIMRA, total variable annuity sales were $32.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 17% from the prior year. For the full year 2021, total sales were $125.6 billion, 27% higher than the prior year. But if you want to start a debate among financial advisors, bring up variable annuities’ possible role in clients’ retirement income plans.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

COLUMBUS, Ohio , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Continued financial repercussions from the pandemic, new concerns over market volatility and high inflation are leading two-thirds of Americans (66%) to worry more now than they did before about their retirement income, according to the Nationwide Retirement Institute ‘s ninth annual Social Security Consumer Survey.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

PORTLAND, Ore.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) scored 100% on the Disability Equality Index and was named a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation’s largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network. “We’re thrilled to be included on the 2022 Disability Equality Index and named a best place to work

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

Some retirement policy specialists want to create a new U.S. personal pension program based on tontines. Financial professionals who paid attention to the history lessons in their early licensing exam courses may have vague memories of tontines being a problem that U.S. life insurers outgrew. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor. The post Tontines Are Alive, and They Could Compete With Annuities in the U.S. appeared first on Wink.

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JULY 26, 2022

Allianz Life study finds majority of Americans say their income is not keeping up with rising expenses. Key findings: 66% worry that a major recession is right around the corner, up from 48% at this time last year. 82% say they worry about rising inflation continuing to have a negative impact on the purchasing power of their income in the next six months. 65% say they are keeping more money than they should out of the market because of worries about loss, up from 57% in Q3 2021.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

The life insurance and annuity industry were definite winners in the pandemic with their highest growth in premium in a decade, but that momentum might slow into the four years, according to the latest market report from S&P Global. Even before the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, the industry was benefiting from conditions around the COVID-19 pandemic, often because of greater mortality awareness boosting life sales.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

The United States still has the biggest life insurance and annuity market in the world, and, in 2021, it was one of the faster-growing large markets. The Swiss Re Institute, a research arm of Swiss Re, has posted country-by-country premium data, expressed both in U.S. dollars and in local currencies, in its latest world insurance report. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor.

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Wink Intel

JULY 26, 2022

Global Atlantic Financial Group has jumped into the market for structured annuities with a product that has a dynamic, moving “floor” to protect against losses. Click HERE to read the full story via Life Annuity Specialist. “I can’t think of anyone that currently does the same as this,” said Peter Lamond , variable annuity product director for Wink , a market research company.

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