CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. They’re articulating ambitions and formulating objectives, turning those would-be challenges into opportunities.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 2, 2024

Companies around the world increasingly use business intelligence (BI) dashboards. If you use one or intend to, knowing some business intelligence best practices can help you avoid pitfalls. Here are 10 best practices for usiness intelligence dashboards from which you can choose information to display.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whenever IT infrastructure upgrades are mentioned, it’s often in the same sentence as technical debt. Technical debt is what accrues when IT teams borrow against future performance to meet demands and deadlines today. That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 2, 2024

Market volatility, economic uncertainty, downturn—these are just a few ways to describe how business, supply chains, and consumer behavior are rapidly acclimating to the unpredictable months ahead. As generative AI (genAI) is simultaneously revolutionizing every industry and changing how business is conducted today, the landscape has become even more complicated to navigate for leaders and research professionals.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

The great migration from the data center to the cloud began with the creation of Amazon Web Services in 2006. By 2021, 96% of companies had made the cloud part of their Data Management plan, leveraging cloud-based services to support their digital infrastructure. The cloud promised greater mobility, flexibility, scalability, and security, all of which businesses wanted.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Wink shares 3rd quarter sales results within fixed annuity, indexed annuity, and multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) markets. Click HERE to read the full story via Aspire Magazine The post Total annuity sales break quarterly records appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Vable

JANUARY 2, 2024

Migrating to a new current awareness system is a daunting task which demands significant time and staffing resources. Vable’s new eguide to migration offers valuable insights into managing and completing this kind of project. It’s a collection of real-world experiences, ideas, and insights shared by information professionals like you - for you.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Most InsuranceNewsNet readers are well convinced of the value of life insurance — as they should be. Life insurance is an extraordinary financial product that helps ensure security and protection for loved ones and beneficiaries. But life insurance’s many benefits and positives don’t mean that selling life insurance is easy. After all, if it were easy, everyone would do it!

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Global events and changing consumer behaviors in the digital era are causing retailers to look toward the future with concern. In 2024, these pressures will drive businesses increasingly to ask: How can I increase sales without raising overhead? How can I create year-round stability for sourcing, inventory, restocking, and order management? And how can I build better omnichannel brand connections in a competitive market where customer loyalty is increasingly tied to consumer values like sustain

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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.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Brooks Tingle, John Hancock CEO, joined Insurance Business from Insuretech Connect in Las Vegas to discuss how the life insurer is looking to behavioral science and drawing on gamification techniques used by casinos to help policyholders lead healthier lives. The ‘ding, ding, ding’ of slot machines, the aimless twists and turns of carpeted warrens, rowdy tables and laser-focused figures.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

If you’re an advisor trying to help more clients with annuities, and you also want to make sure you do it right, then going beyond the basics is important. I know we all want to make a commission on these contracts, or make clever moves to justify our fees, but a lot of times, if we’re not careful, we can end up recommending an annuity that may not be in the best interest of the client.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Brooke Vemuri helps turn streams of data into life insurance, and she now sees a lot more variation in the gears, sprockets and cogwheels inside insurers’ application underwriting machinery. “Today, there’s so much variety in terms of how the application processes work,” Vemuri said in a recent interview. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post AI Could Keep the Life Underwriting Gears Moving: Brooke Vemuri appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

The hype died, the venture capital money dried up, and 2023 might have been the year the insurtech business came face to face with reality, abandoning notions of massive technological revolutions, transformations, and disruptions, and settling into the cold, hard vagaries of the traditional insurance market and reasonable values. “I think by most measures and for the most part, [insurtech] hasn’t delivered—at least not on its most exuberant promises,” said Dale Gonzalez, chief product officer at

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Security

Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Two days of panels with critics and supporters of the Department of Labor’s “retirement security rule” proposal displayed the widely diverging views of the potential new regulation. Earlier this month, officials from the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration engaged in spirited, substantive discussions with financial advisors, professional organizations, industry and consumer advocates and other stakeholders about its plans to change the Employee Re

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

As it wraps up a year of furious change, Osaic Inc., the giant broker-dealer network of 10,500 financial advisors, looks as if it’s moving closer to an inevitable initial public offering in the next year or two. Click HERE to read the full story via InvestmentNews The post Lincoln deal caps year of change at Osaic appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

When it comes to choosing an index crediting strategy, there is no one-size-fits-all approach, according to Jeff Barnes, EquiTrust regional vice president. Barnes presented a three-step approach to choosing the right index crediting strategy during a recent webinar held by the National Association for Fixed Annuities. “Different index crediting strategies thrive in different environments,” he said.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

The CEO of the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals wants to see 2024 as the year in which the association is “responsive and not reactive.” Jessica Brooks-Woods took the helm of NABIP in September. She told InsuranceNewsNet her goal for the organization is to see it “go on the offense” regarding public policy issues that impact health insurance and the people who enroll consumers in coverage.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

When the door to my corporate job shut on my expected career path, the next door opened when I recognized an unmet need in the insurance industry. Click HERE to read the full story via Aspire Magazine The post Raising the bar by building a strong network appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Anew Fidelity Investments annuity reinsurance arm, Soteria Reinsurance, is getting closer to opening its doors. The Pembroke, Bermuda-based company recently hired Ari Lindner to be its president, and it’s now hiring a valuation actuary. Click HERE to read the story via ThinkAdvisor The post Fidelity Moves Ahead With Efforts to Launch SoteriaRe appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reminded federal officials that the states are regulating annuity sales just fine and the Department of Labor should butt out. In a letter sent last week, the NAIC took the rare step of commenting on federal rulemaking. The DOL’s controversial Definition of an Investment Advice Fiduciary rule essentially extends fiduciary status to every rollover transaction.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sales of annuity products hit record highs throughout 2023 and ended the year riding a wave strong enough to raise expectations for 2024 and beyond. Favorable economic conditions is the biggest factor leading LIMRA to project strong growth for annuity sales going forward. Annuity sellers offer unique products to match differing economic trends. Click HERE to read the full story via INN Wink’s Note: View the latest annuity trends via Wink’s Sales & Market Report’s 3rd Quarte

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

It is long overdue to update the life illustrations model regulation, agreed Sheryl Moore, CEO of Wink, Inc. and Moore Market Intelligence. “It is time to nip the illustration gamesmanship by the bud,” she said. “Indexed life didn’t exist when the life insurance illustration model regulation was adopted by the states. It’s time to reopen the model reg, and ensure that all cash value life insurance products are being illustrated in a manner that is helpful in ensuring that the c

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the Nov. 3 publication of the Retirement Security Rule, the Department of Labor embarked on its latest Sisyphean quest to extend fiduciary duty to annuity sellers. Regulators are expected to spend much of 2024 pushing the metaphorical boulder up the hill to get the rule on the books before the November presidential election. It remains to be seen whether the rock — or rather, the rule — will ever stay in place.

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Wink Intel

JANUARY 2, 2024

Life insurance jumped into the spotlight with the COVID-19 pandemic. Converting that mortality awareness into life sales proved to be largely disappointing once the initial buying surge faded. Click HERE to read the full story via INN Wink’s Note: View the latest life insurance industry sales trends via Wink’s Sales & Market Report, 3rd Quarter, 2023.

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