When reading recent financial analysts’ comments and listening to politicians’ opinions around the world, it seems that the worst of the financial crisis and the economic downturn is behind us. Of course, nobody forgets that the international financial system was about to collapse in October last year but according to the most powerful US policymakers, [...]

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In Week 4 of my newborn’s life, insurers are strangely absent in helping me to think about financial products.

There’s a great article at Insurance Networking News (in which I am quoted) about the rise of agent portal technology. It’s been a favorite topic of mine, and I’ve written multiple reports about it at Celent. As the article explains, there are essentially four ways insurers have gone about providing agent portals. Build it themselves. [...]