Digital distribution

As technology has decreased the transactional aspect of their jobs, agents need to emphasize their advisory value.

The focus for insurance industry innovations in 2011 includes business analytics and data warehousing, cloud-enabled software-as-a-service and new mobility solutions.

Insurers now have until December 3 to cast votes for their top technology solution providers.

The mobile Web is evolving at an extraordinary rate, and each evolution has brought new possibilities to insurers. Can they keep up?

The “Let’s Give Americans Their Pensions Back” campaign is aimed at financial advisers.

As November 30 deadline approaches, insurer voting continues as INN and Celent partner on INN’s 5th annual ranking of tech solution providers.

The Swiss government defines aggregators as brokers, leading to an interesting situation in which insurers pay them for use of their platforms.

Comprehensive suite to unite agents and underwriters.

While purchasing property insurance online is still in its infancy compared to the auto insurance market, the time is ripe to increase property quotes and purchases.

Many believe that the future for insurers is in the mobile Web.

Customers tend to be loyal to their insurers, but policy retention rates vary, J.D. Power auto insurance satisfaction study reveals.

IVANS says Transformation Station will boost EMCs’ sales by enabling more frequent quoting by agents and faster response to customers.

Insurers may want to keep an eye on trends in IT that will focus on development for social media and mobile devices, Gartner says.

Against volatile stock markets, insurers benefited from increases in investment income and improvements in capitalization, notes A.M. Best report.

Analyst firm expects agent channel to give way to non-traditional channels such as bancassurance and aggregators.

More IT spending will shift its strategic use to better understand customers and markets, improve products and increase sales opportunities, survey says.

Software promises to help drive variable and fixed annuity sales.

In its fourth annual program, INN honors nine insurers for core systems, customer service and enterprise systems innovations.

The updated identity fraud product will better protect against the most frequently experienced problems.

Like many other areas of specialized knowledge, this information can be invaluable and will position you as a value-added practitioner.