Distribution

Recent statistics indicate a boon for variable annuities, and insurers, now including Nationwide, are listening.

Insurers and consumers seem to disagree about what a website should focus on, and nowadays, the consumer is always right.

With the advent of self-service and social media, customers now own company brands.

Software provider touts new offering as an SaaS, SOA-based core system available through the cloud.

Aite Group Senior Analyst Stephen Applebaum outlines the many social media initiatives insurers are embarking upon from this year's IASA conference in San Diego.

Illustration Integrator is designed to provide Southern Farm Bureau’s agents illustrations with iGO e-App to deliver a unified selling experience, according to iPipeline. Agents will leverage their existing e-signature solution, in a combined signing process, for the illustration and e-application along with e-submission.

Continued slow economic growth places a new priority on servicing distribution channels and improving service to agents, according to a new report.

Allstate, Esurance, GEICO and Travelers perform well in J.D. Power insurance website shopper satisfaction study.

Aragon Research forecasts extinction for most paper documents.

Multichannel delivery and enterprisewide implementations main selling points for providers.