Compensation Bonuses Charge Backs Commissions Fee For Service Fee Only Flexible Compensation Overrides Target Premium Trips, etc 1986 – SOA – New Forms of Agency Compensation — Impact On Product Design And Company Profitability, Society of Actuaries – 42p

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Social Media – Index Social Media   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# A ACLI – IUL – Indexed Universal Life Insurance ACLI – TRG – Technical Resource Goup, Industry – Illustrations – NAIC Adam Sosnick Affinity Life Agents v. Companies Agent – Lead Generation AIL – American Income Life Always Marco Always Marco – Index Always Marco – Lawsuits…

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Independent Contractors NAIC – captive vs. independent agents – naic.softlinkillumin.net/knowledgebase/#/question/128992′ Number of agents: 422,600 total insurance agents in the US (2021) 41,290 total in California Data from BLS Captive agents – employees or contractors? In 2019, the 6th Circuit held that American Family agents were independent contractors based on the Supreme Court’s Darden standard. This essentially considers “the hiring…

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Marketing and Distribution Distribution Marketing Service Servicing 2020 07 – SOA – Marketing and Distribution: Who Sells and Distributes, By Nick Ortner and Brendan Costello, edited by Mike Prendes, Society of Actuaries – 4p GLOSSARY OF DISTRIBUTION HIERARCHY TERMS Field Marketing Organization (FMO)/Independent Marketing Organization (IMO) General Agent (GA), Brokerage General Agent (BGA), and Managing General…

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Agent – Failure Rate 1962 – SOA – Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest: Agency Compensation, Society of Actuaries – 11p 1962 – SOA – Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest: Agency Compensation, Society of Actuaries – 11p (p5) – Russell R. Jensen: We have not seen much change in agent turnover recently at Northwestern…

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New Agents Failure Rate / Retention Rate Financing Source Training A. What methods of subsidizing new managers or general agents are being used in scratch agencies and established agencies? What type of performance standards are required in determining when a new man should receive an increase or decrease in compensation or be terminated? B. Is…

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Chargebacks Perhaps the most common criterion today to measure an agent’s performance during his financing period is the net annualized premium or commission. Under this method the agent receives a validation credit for the annualized amount, regardless of premium frequency, but is debited with a portion of his annualized credit in the case of a…

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