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Interactive technology to help advisers leverage freedom to invest without asset allocation restrictions.

Insurers may want to keep an eye on how Google's Android-based payment system will offer payment firms and retailers more customer data and help them target ads to mobile users.

A new study shows that 86% of financial services pros use social media, up from 73% last year.

New reports list multi-line, life and health insurers with the lowest price to forward sales ratios.

Prepaid card company has been focusing on auto insurers in recent months as a way to sell more cards.

While sales soared to a record high in 2010, they dropped sharply in Q4 thanks in part to Allstate exiting the bank market.

Women are now placing more value on life insurance than men, according to a LIMRA study.

Consumers are spending $363 billion, or 14.7% more, on health care than traditionally reported, finds a Deloitte report.

Jackson's online portfolio construction tool is designed to help advisers assemble portfolios customized to their clients.

Durable Medical Equipment provider network partnership supports ability to retrospectively flag unscheduled bills to obtain contracted discounts.

Kane, a provider of specialist risk and insurance management services, will acquire the insurance management operations of HSBC through an agreement that has been signed with HSBC Bank Bermuda Ltd., HSBC Bank Cayman Ltd. and HSBC Insurance Agency (USA) Inc.

ProspX expands real-time communication and collaboration platform to EMEA.

Insurers offering retirement services are learning that attention to detail and improved communication dramatically boosts customer retention and satisfaction rates, a survey finds.

Similar to New York Life and Nationwide, Allstate says it's looking to add more agents all across the country.

Emerging technologies could spark product innovations that change the way the industry serves customers. But insurers must match technologies with strategic goals.

Aflac’s situation with comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s Twitter comments about the Japanese disaster has shown that insurers must develop well-defined and well-communicated social media usage policies.

Despite insurers' annuity sales rising in recent months, banks have been less fortunate.

The insurer's Snapshot PAYD program offers policyholders the chance to cut auto rates by up to 30%.

With mobile computing, employees in the field can access executive dashboards or alerts that impart streams of critical information.

A source says the reason may be "the lack of a clear standard across the industry" for mobile payments.