CIO
JULY 25, 2023
After graduating from Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico with a degree in computer engineering, Alberto Lugo knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, and he knew that he wanted to build his company on the island. A college internship in Puerto Rico with Microsoft gave him the spark of an idea, and after working for six months in IT for a bank, also located on the island, he saw his opportunity.
Crayon
JULY 25, 2023
Here at Crayon we surveyed the market for the 2023 State of Competitive Intelligence report to get a deeper understanding of how teams rank the importance of different types of intelligence. More specifically, we listed intel source options and asked “How valuable do you consider each source of intelligence?
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CIO
JULY 25, 2023
When it comes to harvesting full value from the rich set of technologies available to every organization, communications skills are probably not on every IT leader’s short list of essential capabilities. Technical skills, for sure. Integration? No doubt. But full spectrum communication skills — that is, oral, written, and digital/social — are almost as essential, if not more so, when it comes to conveying the value of IT’s work and ensuring adoption of it.
Zoominfo
JULY 25, 2023
In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. But the long-running effects of digital disruption, coupled with the sudden shock of COVID-driven remote work, have changed the game. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.
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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.
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CIO
JULY 25, 2023
Salesforce is adding new features to its Commerce Cloud that will help organizations embed digital commerce capabilities into sales, service, or marketing processes to drive more revenue, the company said on Tuesday. The Commerce Cloud is a product suite aimed at helping organizations create unified buying experiences for their customers across channels, including mobile, social, and web.
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BI Insight
JULY 25, 2023
Power BI is a powerful tool for creating and sharing interactive data visualizations. But how can you collaborate with other developers on your Power BI projects and ensure quality and consistency across your reports? In this series of blog posts, I will show you how to integrate Power BI with Azure DevOps, a cloud-based software … Continue reading Integrating Power BI with AzureDevOps (Git), part 1: Cloud Integration The post Integrating Power BI with AzureDevOps (Git), part 1: Cloud Inte
Kompyte
JULY 25, 2023
Imagine being a soccer player who never studies the other team's game plans, a chef who never samples from other kitchens, or an artist who doesn’t study masters in their craft.
Data Hut
JULY 25, 2023
In today's fast-paced, tech-driven world, laptops have become indispensable for work, education, and entertainment. With an overwhelming array of options available in the market, finding the perfect laptop to suit your needs can be a daunting task. Thankfully, web scraping techniques offer a solution by extracting valuable information from online platforms like Bol.com.
GrowbyData
JULY 25, 2023
Prime Day (2023), the highly anticipated annual shopping event, ran from July 11th through July 12th this year, and we have the receipts on Amazon’s heavy spend on Google Shopping ads. We analyzed over 2.5 million Google Shopping Ads , across 3,500 keywords and 5 verticals from July 1st through the 13th. Our analysis uncovered valuable insights to help digital marketers plan for Amazon’s next push on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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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.
Dataversity
JULY 25, 2023
Increasingly more organizations initiate AWS migration due to the advantages provided by the AWS cloud platform. According to The Business Value of Migrating to AWS survey, 43% of AWS adopters report lower time-to-market for new features, 20% report infrastructure cost savings, and 66% note an increase in administrator productivity. However, AWS migration is a challenging task requiring a […] The post 7 Essential Roles for a Successful AWS Migration appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
CIO
JULY 25, 2023
CIOs are burdened with far too many responsibilities for a single individual to competently or productively handle on their own. That’s why it’s important to know how to efficiently delegate tasks to carefully selected team members. Unfortunately, many CIOs are reluctant to assign any important task to a subordinate, believing that the job may not be handled properly or, worse, completely botched.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
When Constellation Insurance sought to dive into the annuity market, the insurer first had to address the difficult legacy of Ohio National. By the time Constellation acquired the troubled insurer in 2022, Ohio National had torched some bridges with producers with its controversial decision to eliminate trailing commissions in 2018. The insurer also ceased selling annuities that year.
CIO
JULY 25, 2023
Nearly a century old, Huisman Equipment B.V. designs, manufactures, and services heavy construction equipment for a wide range of industries, including petroleum, renewable energy, naval fleets, and entertainment. The company has a global reputation for providing high-quality service, cost efficiency, and rapid time to value—all while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations as it delivers its solutions.
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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
JULY 25, 2023
Afederal court of appeals has ruled in favor of Prudential Financial in a case involving a dispute about the creation of a new variable annuity rider. A three-judge panel at the 6th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling and found that Prudential did not engage in trade secrets misappropriation in 2017 when it introduced an annuity rider similar to a rider proposed by Novus Group.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
Brighthouse Financial has introduced a life insurance policy that may help clients tie policy growth to the performance of the stock market while holding down their federal income taxes. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company’s new Brighthouse SmartGuard Plus policy is a registered indexed universal life insurance (RIUL) policy. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor Wink’s Moore on the Market: Brighthouse Financial is joining Prudential Financial and Equitable in the
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
American Equity Investment Life (AEL), a leading issuer of fixed index annuities through independent agents, banks and broker-dealers, announced that it would be acquired by Brookfield Reinsurance, in a transaction that values AEL at approximately $4.3 billion. AEL shareholders will receive a total of $55 per AEL share in cash and Brookfield stock. Brookfield Reinsurance, a leading financial services company for the insurance industry, and its affiliates North End and Freestone currently hold ap
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
Constellation Insurance today said its new AuguStar insurance business will sell a full line of individual annuities , not just life insurance. Constellation — the company that acquired Ohio National in 2022 and promised to invest $500 million in reviving it — said the AuguStar Retirement division will write non-variable indexed annuities, multi-year guaranteed annuities, traditional variable annuities and registered index-linked annuities.
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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
JULY 25, 2023
InsuranceNewsNet Publisher Paul Feldman interviewed Igor Zamkovski, head of Indexed Annuities, Retirement Insurance at BlackRock, at the recent NAFA Annuity Leadership Forum. They discussed the role that annuities can play providing guaranteed income during retirement, especially in an uncertain economy, and the value BlackRock sees in annuities during the decumulation period.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
Chuck DiVencenzo, NAFA president and CEO, discusses potential regulation, retirement trends and fixed annuity sales in 2023, with Paul Feldman, InsuranceNewsNet publisher. Click HERE to watch the story via INN The post NAFA CEO talks about 2023 state of the fixed annuity industry appeared first on Wink.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A growing number of Americans are interested in adding an annuity to their employer-sponsored retirement plan like a 401(k), according to a new study* from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life). In the last few years, interest in annuities as part of an employer-sponsored retirement plan has grown significantly.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
DES MOINES, Iowa , July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) announced it has upgraded the insurance financial strength (IFS) ratings of F&G Annuities & Life, Inc.’s (NYSE: FG ) (“F&G” or the “Company”) insurance subsidiaries to ‘A3’ from ‘Baa1’ Concurrently, Moody’s has also upgraded the long-term issuer rating of F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. to ‘Ba1
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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
JULY 25, 2023
NEW YORK , July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TIAA RetirePlus ® has recently grown to over 250,000 individual participant accounts. Demand for RetirePlus has been fueled by its ability to provide retirement plans with guaranteed growth during accumulation, asset allocation and guaranteed income in retirement, all at a potentially lower cost. “Retirement is becoming even more difficult to finance for Americans, and many are rightly worried about running out of money,” said Kourtn
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
Lifetime income annuities now pay more than they have in years. With interest rates up, insurers can invest annuity payments in higher-yielding bonds and thus offer much more generous lifetime payouts. This has gotten little media attention. While it’s easy to find rates on certificates of deposit, bonds, fixed-rate annuities and money-market accounts, income annuities don’t carry an interest rate.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
WASHINGTON , July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — As The Washington Post recently noted, Americans are doing better financially today than before the pandemic – somewhere between 10 and 15 percent have more in their bank accounts today as compared to 2019. And while this is a step in the right direction, true financial security goes beyond just having a little more money in the bank.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
State insurance regulators have drafted rules for how insurers use artificial intelligence. The Innovation Cybersecurity and Technology Committee, an arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, posted a draft AI model bulletin on the NAIC’s website Monday. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Insurance Regulators Wrestle With AI Supervision appeared first on Wink.
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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
JULY 25, 2023
Americans differ widely in terms of when they expect to retire, from their 30s to deep into old age. Now a fifth of the population has another answer: Never. Twenty percent of U.S. adults don’t think they’ll ever retire, according to a new study by the news website Axios and the market research firm Ipsos. Of those respondents, 70% said this was because they don’t think they could ever afford to stop working.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
The Massachusetts advisor who was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in March with defrauding clients as part of an annuity replacement scheme requested that the case be dismissed, arguing that, among other things, he was acting as an insurance agent and not an advisor, which means he didn’t violate the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Wink Intel
JULY 25, 2023
Nationwide Defender Annuity is an innovative, simple solution that makes it easier to customize an accumulation strategy while protecting against volatility Columbus, OH – At a time when more than half of consumers are concerned about keeping up with inflation and their retirement account losing value, Nationwide has announced the launch of the Nationwide Defender SM Annuity , a new registered index-linked annuity (RILA) that offers customized growth potential and investment protection
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