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Raising Work IQ by Ken Doyle Getting Results Coaching
How does one work smarter? We need to be able to distinguish between what is relevant and what is valid. What is relevant in your business that needs to be tracked? Most will say lets track production! Which is a good start but I am always a little leary of tracking production not that you [...]
FIXED INDEX ANNUITIES: Investors are trying to find Increased value within Stocks: FFG, PPL, THQI
FBL Financial Group (NYSE:FFG) is a $1 billion company that underwrites, markets, and distributes life insurance of fixed and indexed annuities in the western world. For yesteryear 52 weeks, this life insurance coverage company continues to be trading between $31.45 and $19.51 having a trailing 12 month earnings per share of $3.92 and a trailing [...]
Fixed Index Annuities Set Sales Record for 2nd year in a row
Indexed annuities had record sales for a second consecutive year, reaching $32.1 billion, according to LIMRA’s analysis of sales. The increase was 7% more than 2009 results, according to the analysis, which tracks 96% of annuity sellers’ activities. In the fourth quarter of last year, indexed-annuity sales improved 17% compared to fourth quarter of 2009, [...]
SCOR Sells United States Fixed Annuity Business
French reinsurer SCOR Group announced that it is “disposing of its US Fixed Annuity business through the sale of its subsidiary Investors Insurance Corporation (IIC) for $55 million.” The entire share capital of IIC will be acquired by Athene Holding Ltd. IIC is a Life insurer operating in the US, which specializes in the sale [...]
Cultivate Discernment by Steve Sanduski
The past 2 years has been a huge wakeup call and a nasty reminder that successful investing requires multiple skills. One of those skills is discernment—the ability to absorb a tremendous amount of information and distill it into keen insights that are missed by the masses. It’s not an ability to predict the future, rather, [...]
ACQUISITION: Dell vs AMD. Will dell buy its Athlon Chip Maker?
A report within Barron‘s broadcasted a rumor that chipmaker Sophisticated Micro Devices is an acquisition goal for Dell. The rumor was credited with improving AMD’s stock price 5% last night. The report mentioned that “there’s not a lot of color on the rumor at this point.” Nonetheless, the tale has taken on a life of [...]
IPO: Pandora Goes Public. Will you invest? by Sean Browne
Pandora has submitted a registration statement on Form S-1 using the Securities as well as Exchange Commission, setting the music-recommendation service on the route towards a preliminary public offering. Hear say of an Ipo have been accelerating in the last 30 days, using the organization considered seeking to raise $100 million within an offering. Pandora [...]
SLIDE SHOW: Optimize Your Social Media Budget
As marketers focus on optimizing their social media programs this year, return on investment is going to be a huge consideration. As a result, marketers will — and should — take a more calculated approach towards budgeting for social marketing initiatives. Prioritizing spending on particular social activities, though, is a task that hasn’t quite been [...]
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Genworth Annuity Rates are Increasing on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
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Exciting Changes Coming to SpectraMark Riders in Most States!
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Six Costly Retirement-Saving Setbacks and How to Overcome Them
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EquiTrust Annuity-Product Training Required – ALL Agents/All States – June 1
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American Equity Lifetime Income Rate Changes — Effective June 3rd, 2013
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Six Costly Retirement-Saving Setbacks and How to Overcome Them
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Exciting Changes Coming to SpectraMark Riders in Most States!
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Genworth Annuity Rates are Increasing on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013