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        "summary": "To insure your success as a benefits broker in 2016 and beyond, you'll need to diversify business.",
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        "summary": "Sensor data can transform the insurance industry, giving new life to a sector that has long suffered from slow growth.",
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        "prettyDate": "December 28, 2015",
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        "summary": "Opportunities aplenty await the market-savvy life insurance and financial service professional in 2016.",
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        "summary": "Many U.S. workers are taking Social Security benefits early, new research shows--and the effects are sobering.",
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        "title": "The DOL fiduciary rule: reactions from 4 industry associations",
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        "prettyDate": "July 24, 2015",
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        "summary": "Many insurance and financial advisor industry associations aren't happy with the Department of Labors proposed fiduciary rule on retirement account investment advice. Here's why.",
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        "prettyDate": "July 15, 2015",
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        "summary": "U.S. application activity for individually underwritten life insurance edged up 2.1 percent in June compared to the year-ago period, according to new research.",
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        "prettyDate": "June 12, 2015",
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        "summary": "If you actively sell voluntary employee benefits, you might do well to focus chiefly, if not exclusively, on the largest U.S. companies.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 01, 2015",
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        "summary": "New hardware and software for insurance companies can come with big price tags. But new research shows that the companies spend nearly twice as much on existing IT equipment than on new solutions.",
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        "prettyDate": "April 15, 2015",
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        "summary": "A growing number of Americans are turning to the Internet to research and buy life insurance products. And the online shoppers aren't just millennials.",
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        "title": "Women seek better benefits to help achieve work-life balance",
        "byline": " Warren S. Hersch ",
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        "prettyDate": "March 09, 2015",
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        "summary": "Only 47 percent of women say they're properly balancing responsibilities at work with their personal lives, according to a new survey from BMO Financial Group.",
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