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Minnesota Life Presents: Life Insurance as an Investment Tool BGA and BGA Staff Webinar Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:00 PM CST Join TMA and Steve Sommer, Sales Manager, IDG of Minnesota Life for a presentation on “Life Insurance as an Investment Tool.” Learn how you can use life insurance to help your clients fill their retirement income… Read More

If you’re a wealth management firm looking to integrate insurance within your practice, ChangePath is the solution you’ve been waiting for. As a turnkey asset management platform (TAMP), ChangePath provides a unified managed household approach that illustrates the overall impact of fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) into the Modern Portfolio Theory. Utilizing ChangePath will help grow… Read More

CreativeOne is excited to announce it has partnered with ChangePath, a next-generation turnkey asset management platform (TAMP). This exclusive opportunity gives CreativeOne producers a competitive advantage because we’re the only agent development organization bringing this to the market. ChangePath’s groundbreaking technology brings together actuarial product development, insurance professionals, third-party asset managers, sub advisors and principal owners of large… Read More

Here’s a tale of how two top Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) connected to integrate insured solutions. We’ll start with the conversation that triggered the series of events … CreativeOne invited an investment manager/firm principal ($1 billion+ AUM) and a career insurance producer to tell their story of how they tipped the principals’ decision to embrace… Read More

One of my colleagues, Paul McGillivray, recently graced me with his paperback copy of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryon’s paean to growing up in Des Moines, Iowa in the halcyon decade of the 50s and the tumultuous 60s. Growing up in the Des Moines area myself, born but 4 years… Read More

There is so much heat and so little light in the debate over how to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” I recently watched a Sunday morning news show in which the anchor played footage showing Speaker Boehner saying that tax rates should not be raised, and then watched her pose the non sequitur to her panelists,… Read More

The month of February leads many people to think of everything from cupids and engagements to roses and diamonds. Merriam-Webster defines the word diamond as “a native crystalline carbon that is the hardest known mineral that is usually near colorless.” Most women define diamonds as the ultimate gift of love. The true beauty of a diamond can be enhanced by the proper cutting of the stone – known as faceting. This process is designed to allow the gem to reflect light and must be carefully adjusted to maximize optical performance.

Many of us can remember simpler times and a slower pace of life. Back in the good ‘ole days, goods and services were provided by people you knew by name, who lived in your neighborhood, and who visited just to check on your children or catch up on any family news. There were fewer choices, and no one seemed to mind. The milkman would bring whole dairy milk to your door each week, and families enjoyed the vitamins and nutrients this product offered. But with the advent of new technologies, individuals began going to the grocery store to buy milk in 2%, 1% and skim varieties to enjoy a different set of nutritional benefits.