Cipher

APRIL 19, 2021

This article is a part of our competitor analysis resource center. Visit the complete competitor analysis resource center for more content like this. Analyzing competitors is a key activity for businesses in all industries, and plays a central role in the overall Competitive Intelligence (CI) strategy of the firm. By building a comprehensive understanding of the profiles, behaviors, and strategies of competitors, businesses can make more informed decisions and better position themselves for long

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 19, 2021

The need to protect data is one that most companies are more than aware of. However, many businesses operate under the misconception that any potential threats or breaches are being conducted externally. Employee negligence is a very costly cause of data leaks. The average cost of a data record compromised by a careless employee is $160. Around 66% of all data leaks are caused by employees making mistakes with digital records.

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Octopus

APRIL 19, 2021

This article is called Competitor Analysis for any size business with a quick and dirty tool. It offers our basic thoughts on how to start analysing your competitors. What is Competitor Analysis? Competitor Analysis is an evaluation of your identified. Read More. The post Competitor Analysis For Any Size Business With a Quick and Dirty Tool appeared first on Octopus Competitive Intelligence.

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Netbasequid

APRIL 19, 2021

Making the most of every bit of brand intel available online is a tall order. Fortunately, media analysis capabilities help agencies fulfill this need every time. How does it help exactly? We’re glad you asked, as this post details precisely what media analysis is and how it works! What is Media Analysis? When we talk about ‘media analysis’ it’s easy to confuse the term and think that it applies to news media alone, but that really isn’t the case.

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Octopus

APRIL 19, 2021

This article is called Competitive Intelligence thinking go for when up against a competitor. You are sitting in your office with your sales director. She tells you that a competitor is telling clients that their new product is game-changing. Their. Read More. The post Competitive Intelligence Thinking to Go For When Up Against a Competitor appeared first on Octopus Competitive Intelligence.

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Moz

APRIL 19, 2021

Even the best local business owners and marketers can fall into the habit of seeing reviews as a mere numbers or ratings game. Make your reviews do more for you by embracing topic clusters.

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Pathmatics

APRIL 19, 2021

High five! That company you’ve been crushing on has finally submitted an RFP (“request-for-proposal”). They’re interested. You’ve hooked them. Game on! Now all you have to do is reel them in, win them over, and close the deal. No sweat. You’ve got this. And we’re going to help by showing how to win an RFP like the winner you are.

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Dataversity

APRIL 19, 2021

Click to learn more about author Ian Pitt. 2020 presented some of the most unexpected challenges as the pandemic pushed many organizations to advance their digital transformation at an accelerated pace. With the guiding principle of “Own Your Privacy,” we celebrated Data Privacy Day in January, highlighting awareness, understanding, and action both for the organization […].

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Contify

APRIL 19, 2021

The post Competitive Intelligence: A Definitive Guide With Goals & Examples appeared first on Contify Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform - Blog.

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Dataversity

APRIL 19, 2021

Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. Last year I wrote […]. The post Dear Laura: Our Data Governance Leader Quit appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

SUMMIT, N.J. , April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Simplicity Group (“Simplicity”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired Sunderland Group, one of the longest-standing, health, life and annuity distribution businesses in the independent space. As part of the transaction that closed effective March 31 , Simplicity welcomes Brad and Derek Sunderland as its newest partners and shareholders of the Simplicity Group of companies. “We are thrilled to have Brad, Derek, and th

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Mind Shifts

APRIL 19, 2021

As you know by now, I love sharing great articles that I come across in journals, magazines, e-newsletter and so on with you. This one from Pat McDaniel of Wise Insights struck a chord with me. He introduced the concept of hidden saboteurs who undermine our efforts to get ahead and reach our goals and dreams. In this article, he draws attention to an invisible saboteur that is easier to see in others than in ourselves.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

SUMMIT, N.J. , April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Simplicity Group (“Simplicity”) is pleased to announce that it has added Lenz Financial Group, an independent life, annuity, and long-term care insurance distribution business, to the Simplicity Group of companies. As part of this expansion, Simplicity welcomes John Lenz , as its newest partner and shareholder, through a transaction that closed effective March 31.

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Domo

APRIL 19, 2021

Imagine suddenly finding yourself with significant business opportunities in foreign countries, conducted in languages with which you are unfamiliar. You hire translators—they’re expensive, and excellent—but they are necessarily a limited resource, and the number of opportunities you can pursue are limited by the translators available. Those translators, which were hired to do a variety of work at multiple levels of an account, instead find their time monopolized by random meetings, becaus

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

DALLAS , April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), the nation’s largest independent distributor of life and health insurance products, today announced it has acquired Polcyn Insurance and Financial Services (“Polcyn Insurance”), an independent marketing organization (“IMO”) based in Chandler, Arizona.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

SCOTTSDALE, AZ , April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Sagicor ® Life Insurance Company (Sagicor) receives five awards for its 2020 entries in the AVA DIGITAL AWARDS and HORIZON INTERACTIVE AWARDS competitions, which recognize excellence in digital creativity, branding, strategy, web design and creative media. “We are extremely proud of our entire team.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

CINCINNATI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–American Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: AFG) expects to release its 2021 first quarter results after 5:00 p.m. (ET) on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The release will be available shortly thereafter on AFG’s website at www.AFGinc.com. In conjunction with its release, AFG will hold a conference call to discuss 2021 first quarter results at 11:30 a.m.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

With ever-rising technology costs and a squeeze on their margins, US retirement plan recordkeepers have had only one refuge of profitability: Becoming big enough to achieve the necessary economies of scale. The industry has dramatically consolidated, and Prudential may be on the verge of exiting the game. . Click HERE to read the full story via RIJ.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Prudential Financial Inc. is exploring a sale of the bulk of its retirement business, which could fetch more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The Newark, New Jersey-based life insurer is working with a financial adviser to find buyers for its so-called full-service solutions business, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Have you noticed the increased interest in annuity products this year? This increased interest is coming from both consumers and financial professionals. Why is this happening? Why now? I think there are seven common sense reasons for this awakening. These reasons have their roots in demographics, the economic environment and recent product innovations.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Older Americans are facing an income crisis and are scrambling to generate income from accumulated assets. Annuity products can help but are not understood. . Annuity products are great tools to help generate the income Americans need to fund their spending as they age. This book gives potential buyers an objective source of information.”. — Harry N.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

The U.S. hit a sad record in 2020, with deaths reaching more than 3 million for the first time. Not all deaths were from COVID-19. Many were the result of heart disease, deferred health care and suicide. There also were increases in accidental death. Click HERE to read the full story via INN. The post What Record Mortality Rates Mean For The Life Insurance Industry appeared first on Wink.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

The growth of analytics, artificial intelligence and Big Data capabilities created a monster of sorts with many legal and ethical ramifications in the insurance world. Regulators and lawmakers have been busy trying to stay one step ahead of potential trouble with the technology. LIMRA hosted a panel discussion on these topics Tuesday titled “Regulation of Big Data and Predictive Models” at the virtual Life Insurance Conference from LIMRA, LOMA and LL Global.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Too many Americans don’t have enough money saved for retirement. This makes understanding how to stretch limited retirement resources of paramount importance. To illustrate how you can maximize a modest nest egg, I’d like you to meet Steve. He’s an entirely hypothetical retiree, but we’ll use Steve’s case to outline a workable strategy for planning for retirement when you don’t have enough set money aside.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Annuities offer retirees the chance to obtain tax-deferred growth and guaranteed income in retirement, and annuities should always be part of a retirement and income specialist’s tool kit. If you frequently sell annuities yourself, you know that. But, amazingly, many advisors don’t discuss annuity products with their pre-retiree clients. For some, it’s because they have become so immersed in the accumulation phase of financial planning that they’ve developed only superficial knowledge of safe mo

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Here’s a list that gives each insurer’s anticipated earnings release date, along with the stock symbol the company uses to identify itself to investors. (This list will be updated over the next few days, as more earnings release dates come in.). Click on the stock symbol to see the company’s SEC filing page. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

With all the pressure on fixed products, carriers have been looking over at the variable side of the business. The recent runaway success of registered index-linked annuities, also known as buffered or structured annuities, has inspired insurance companies to consider extending the model to other products. Timothy Pfeifer of Pfeifer Advisory, which advises carriers on product design, said interest rates, regulations, tax policy and other factors are forcing companies to rethink their whole produ

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

. The percentage of consumers who say they have need live coverage and don’t have it grew to 18%. Women are more likely than men to say they have a life coverage gap. Many of the highest-income survey participants reporting having a gap. The percentage of U.S. adults who say they have a life insurance coverage gap is continuing to grow. The percentage of survey participants who said in January that they needed life insurance and had none increased to 18%.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 19, 2021

Investment advisory fees that an insurance company deducts from a nonqualified deferred annuity contract won’t be considered amounts received as annuities under the federal tax code, the Internal Revenue Service said. Click HERE to read the full story via Law 360. The post Annuity Contract Adviser Fees Ruled Not Amount Received appeared first on Wink.

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APRIL 19, 2021

With no end in sight to historically low interest rates, insurance providers are increasingly using technology to help advisors consider using annuities in client portfolios. But many advisors are instead continuing to pile clients into bonds, where net inflows remain high. SS&C Advent and Envestnet both have digital insurance marketplaces for advisors to access and evaluate products, and Redtail recently integrated with Quote & Apply, a consumer-facing software platform for life insuran

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