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DECEMBER 7, 2023

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to. According to PwC’s 2023 Global Crisis and Resilience Survey , 96% of 1,812 business leaders said their organizations had experienced disruption in the past tw

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Video blogging (which is often referred to as vlogging) has become a very popular medium for people that want to share their ideas and knowledge with people they would never otherwise reach.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amir Kazmi is a savvy business leader whose leadership playbook has been shaped by the fact that he’s spent one third of his career in P&L roles. In his current role as chief information and digital officer at WestRock, he’s responsible for developing and executing global information systems, technology, and cybersecurity strategy in addition to leading the company’s digital transformation.

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Weidert Group

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Email list management. There was a time when those words struck fear in the hearts of marketers. The process was manual, time-consuming, and not very consistent. There’s not one marketer I know who has time to devote to inefficiency. That’s why I love creating automated workflows in HubSpot to help my clients keep their databases clean. Creating a workflow is an easy, powerful, and automated way to remove “dead” marketing contacts from your mailing lists so your CRM database remains clean.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the centuries, Japan has endured more than its fair share of natural disasters – such as the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 that resulted in close to 40,000 lives lost in downtown Tokyo alone and, more recently, the 2011 Tohoku quake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan, killing 18,000 residents with approximately 20,000 more still uncounted for to this day.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the last year, generative AI—a form of artificial intelligence that can compose original text, images, computer code, and other content—has gone from experimental curiosity to a tech revolution that could be one of the biggest business disruptors of our generation. Along the way, business leaders in every industry have been scrambling to develop their generative AI strategies, address potential risks, and figure out the best next action while trying to stay one step ahead of the competition

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving as advancements in technology continue to drive efficiencies in medical practices, clinical trials, and drug development. While the healthcare industry has turned towards artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline healthcare processes, these rapid innovations have also driven ethical and cultural concerns with adoption, regulations, and patient data security.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Non-Variable UL Sales for the third quarter of 2023 were $774 million, compared with sales of $769 million for the third quarter of 2022. Third quarter non-variable life sales were down more than 6% when compared to the previous quarter and down less than 1% as compared to the same period last year. Total 3Q2023 non-variable universal life sales were $774,037,093.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Supporting enterprise security during a cloud migration can be rife with pitfalls that can derail the initiative and ruin the customer experience. It’s no joke—I know a finance director who suffered this fate. She joined the company in the middle of a corporate cloud transformation initiative and inherited a new Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution as part of an enterprise cybersecurity overhaul.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

— FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION — NEWS RELEASE LIFE SALES TAKE A DIVE IN THE THIRD QUARTER Wink, Inc. Releases Third Quarter, 2023 Life Sales Results Des Moines, Iowa. December 7, 2023 – Wink, Inc. released the third quarter, 2023 life sales results in its 105 th edition of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Wink’s Sales & Market Report is the insurance industry’s #1 resource for life insurance sales data, since 1997.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a global company with more than 6,000 employees, BMC faces many of the same data challenges that other large enterprises face. The organization has 500 applications for business services, 80,000 VMs, 3,000 hosts, and more than 100,000 containers. BMC needed a solution to transform this large volume of data and enable observability to understand thousands of events as a single scenario.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Google knows our secret thoughts, because we often turn them into search queries. If we search for “fever,” Google suspects that we might be sick. If we type “fever sy,” Google suggests a list of autocomplete options that includes “fever symptoms in dogs,” “fever symptoms in babies“ and “fever symptoms in toddlers.” Public health officials use that kind of information to find early signs of infectious disease outbreaks.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To understand service health, IT needs to examine availability, security, performance, and log data from all layers of the ecosystem. Accomplishing this task requires observability driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Simply put, observability is the ability to look at data from all of an organization’s tools to understand the state of an application or service.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–DPL Financial Partners, the leading platform for commission-free annuities, today announced that it has crossed $2 billion in sales of no-load annuity products. The milestone, spurred by growing adoption among both longtime fee-only advisors and “breakaway” advisors transitioning from brokerage to a fiduciary practice, comes just over one year after the company hit $1 billion in annuity purchases in 2022.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have elected Andrew Mais to be the group’s president in 2024. The results mean that Mais, the Connecticut insurance commissioner, will lead the NAIC as the organization wrestles with the Department of Labor over jurisdiction over annuity sales standards. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Andrew Mais to Lead State Insurance Regulators Into Fiduciary Rule Arena appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“Long overdue” is the first phrase to come to mind in announcing that Jim Ash, one of the most influential BGAs to ever grace our business (and a really great guy), is this year’s recipient of the Douglas Mooers Award for Excellence. Presented at the annual conference, the Mooers award is NAILBA’s, and thus brokerage’s, most prestigious award, honors distinction in brokerage, and is presented to the individual most committed to furthering independent life brokerage as a distribution system and w

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many people have turned to annuities as a reliable means of securing a stable income during retirement. Financial advisers often highlight annuities as a prudent choice for those looking to manage retirement finances effectively. With a $150,000 annuity, the monthly income potential varies based on several key factors, such as the type of annuity chosen, the age of the annuitant and the length of the payout period.

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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

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Department of Labor on Oct. 31 released a proposed rule defining who is an investment advice fiduciary for purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, along with proposed amendments to class prohibited transaction exemptions available to investment advice fiduciaries, including PTE 2020-02, aka the “rollover rule.” I recently spoke with my colleague Joe Antonakakis to learn more about the proposed rule.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

riminals who pretended to be Pacific Life executives fooled an agent into causing an applicant to send them a $500,000 payment, according to a new lawsuit. The plaintiff, William Machin, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor Wink’s Moore on the Market: This is seriously the most bizarre lawsuit I have ever seen.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Department of Labor ’s new proposed fiduciary rule could trigger “a wave of consolidation” in the industry and accelerate the trend in assets shifting from brokerage to advisory, both of which can benefit a firm such as LPL Financial , according to its president and chief executive officer Dan Arnold. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Advisor IQ The post New DOL Proposal Could Spur Consolidation, Shift to Advisory: LPL CEO appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a global life and health reinsurer, has launched Ruby Reinsurance Company (Ruby Re), a Missouri-domiciled third-party life reinsurance company targeting US asset-intensive business. According to the announcement, Ruby Re has closed its first round of funding and secured equity capital commitments from lead investors Golub Capital, Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Eden Prairie, Minnesota – Eden Prairie, MN, December 5, 2023 – ECA Marketing, Inc, a leading Insurance Marketing Organization, is thrilled to announce its latest joint venture with Wichita National Life Insurance (WNL) to introduce a competitive, proprietary Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity (MYGA) product. This strategic partnership combines the annuity expertise and resources of ECA Marketing with the insurance industry longevity of Wichita National Life Insurance.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Life insurance in qualified retirement plans is a useful strategy to provide a pre-retirement death benefit to participants and their beneficiaries. This can possibly self-complete a retirement plan for survivors as well as use a noncorrelated asset in overall portfolio diversification. Click HERE to read the full story via INN Wink’s Moore on the Market : Ernesto Guerriero had a great article about the best interest regulation in this month’s “ InsuranceNewsNet Magazine.”

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Reading an ad, promoting a hybrid index that is used on indexed annuities. I HOPE you know that one of the constituents in nearly all hybrid/engineered/bespoke/volatility-controlled indices is CASH. Index providers control the allocation of funds within the index’s constituents. If the index is heavily weighted toward cash, this WILL have the effect of drag on your performance.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tim Heslin began his life insurance career by pricing term life insurance. He’s worked his way up the ladder at AIG over the past 20 years, holding a wide variety of titles that prepared him to become Corebridge Financial’s president of life insurance. Corebridge Financial was formed as a rebrand of AIG’s life and retirement subsidiary in 2021. Click HERE to read the full story via INN Wink’s Moore on the Market: Tim Heslin with Corebridge Financial taught me something new today.

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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.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I bought an annuity through a direct-to-consumer platform. The electronic process was very simple. At this point, I am waiting for one of their home office agents to contact me about the case. My inforce 5-year MYGA was renewing at 4.40%. Why would I renew, when I can get a new 5-year MYGA crediting 6.50%? That rate sealed the deal! -sjm The post I bought an annuity through a direct-to-consumer platform. appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Most financial experts believe that many older Americans are too heavily invested in the stock market, and now there’s evidence to back them up. When giant Fidelity Investments analyzed its retirement accounts customers, it found that 37% of those born between 1946 and 1964 (so-called Baby Boomers) have more equity holdings than they should. Depending on age, people in this age bracket should have from 47% to 67% in equities, according to Fidelity.

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Wink Intel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined and suspended a former independent broker with Cambridge Investment Research in Mason, Ohio for recommending a series of variable annuity exchanges that violated Regulation Best Interest, according to a settlement finalized on Thursday. Click HERE to read the full story via AdvisorHub Wink’s Moore on the Market : Stop.

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