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With federal purse strings tightening, Americans are likely to need a mix of private and diminished government resources to pay for their long-term care. Thats why LTC Financial Partners is offering free presentations nationwide to help people achieve the right mix.

As the competitive landscape for benefits brokers gets tougher, effectively communicating benefits strategies with clientsand helping them better communicate those strategies with their employees becomes even more critical.

Investment advisors in the Bay State aren’t exactly social media savvy when it comes to communicating with their clients. So the state of Massachusetts is stepping in by planning to issue new guidelines and best practices standards in the next year.

Statistics from HighRoads’ latest industry survey on open enrollment reveals 71 percent of respondents conduct passive versus active enrollment practices, therefore enabling employees to automatically renew most of their own plans.

In a study of life insurance policy owners, LIMRA finds 1 in 2 people have visited their life insurer’s website. Of those who did, 70 percent used services found on the site.

The benefits selling industry is no exception with recent advancements in online enrollment options. The choices are many for employers when it comes to explaining benefits to their employees and assisting them in the enrollment process.

Providing health insurance to the average employee will cost a company $10,700 this year, an 8.2 percent increase from 2010.

Insurance brokers are leveraging technology in a new way to make valuable health care recommendations to their clients, claims a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute.