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Insurers ‘Coming Together’ To Tackle Diversity And Inclusion Goals The insurance industry faced a racial reckoning of sorts following the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. The Black Lives Matter movement was growing and clashes with police were becoming weekly news items. Following Floyd's death, mass protests erupted across the nation. Big insurers, with an unfortunate racial history of their own, could have laid low and avoided the simmering controversy. Instead, leading insurance CEOs released an extraordinary statement of support for the Black community....

Will Agents Ever Return To The Office? Insurers are facing tough choices as the country pulls out of the COVID-19 pandemic and, hopefully, returns to some semblance of normalcy. On the one hand, companies like Prudential and Northwestern Mutual had strong years -- despite absurdly low interest rates on top of the pandemic disruption to face-to-face sales. So why would agents even bother going back to the office? That was a central question Tuesday for the panel at the Economic Landscape: Emerging from a Novel Year and Ready for Growth session at the virtual 2021 Distribution Conference for Fi...

Is This A Truce In The Distribution Demographic War? A common observation during the pandemic is that it was no place for older people, at least not in the province of life insurance sales. But we saw some glimmers of a truce in the war of the demographics. It is true that younger agents tend to have a greater facility for tech, however they also did not have a book of clients to fall back on. Although older agents might not have the same facility for tech, they also have experience that help guide younger colleagues, said John Carroll, corporate vice president, member relations and sales, LI...