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May 6, 2015

This Week's Highlights

Join us later today, Wednesday May 6th at 3:00 pm central for the second webinar in 3 Mark Financial's Indexed Universal Life Series.  During this session we will be discussing IUL designed for cash value accumulation and income.

Please join Bruce, Sean and Mark as they discuss the following;

  • IUL Sales Applications
  • IUL Mechanics and Illustration Tips
  • Case Studies
  • Key carriers and products in this market.
  • Your Questions
Register for the 3 Mark Webinar Now

 

Please mark your calendar for webinar on Protection UL & John Hancock Term with Vitality on May 13, 2015 at 3:00 PM central.

Joey Ussery, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Regional Director John Hancock Insurance and Bruce Alfredson, CLU, ChFC, 2nd Vice President, 3 Mark Financial will discuss this new life insurance solutions that reward healthy living.  Your clients can save on premiums and earn valuable rewards and discounts by simply living a healthy life.

Register for the John Hancock Webinar Now

 

3 Mark Financial becomes a Silver Certified iGO Distributor

Thanks to the support of our Affiliates and Agents 3 Mark Financial's  iGO submissions increased nearly 50% in 2014 resulting in the awarding of the Silver Certified iGO Distributor certification.  Our goal for 2015 is to pick up the pace and earn the gold certification next year.  If you have not yet tried electronic processing we encourage you to give it a try.  For questions please visit the 3 Mark website or contact us at 3 Mark.

May is Disability Awareness Month

May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month (DIAM) and the perfect time for you to remind your clients to protect their most valuable asset, their income potential. To help you get the conversation started, visit the Disability Income Page of the 3 Mark website.

Life Insurance

John Hancock - Tips for Successful Selling - Life Insurance with Vitality Program

Change the conversation to focus on John Hancock’s new healthy approach to life insurance with the John Hancock Vitality ProgramLearn more.  

Live a Healthy Life and Save

Learn how John Hancock Term with Vitality protects your clients while also recognizing and rewarding them for living a healthy life. Learn more.  

Stay on Track with LifeTrack

LifeTrack is a first-of-its-kind service from John Hancock that automatically adjusts billed premiums based on your client’s objectives and their policy’s performance. Available on Protection UL 15 and Protection UL with Vitality. Learn more. 

Mark your calendar for May 13 at 3:00pm central for a webinar on the very innovative Vitality Program from John Hancock.  Registration for this webinar will open next week.

Protective

Most financial professionals work with couples, but very few have training on how to effectively advise couples. This new program can help you be more effective with you couple clients.  Learn More

Does Your UL Sales Approach Deliver?

Focusing on the lowest premium in pursuit of insurance solutions can cause your clients to miss out on opportunities to enhance their coverage. Help your clients get protection that’s worth the price with Protective Advantage Choice UL.  Learn more

Allianz

Important Guidelines on how FIUL Policies Are Illustrated

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) have been working together to develop the guidelines on how fixed index universal life illustrations should be illustrated, with a focus on making them more standardized across the industry.  Learn more

Spousal Limited Access Trust

Establishing an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) as a spousal limited access trust (SLAT) can help provide the trustee with potential access to the policy’s cash value, while the insured spouse is still alive, while potentially helping minimize estate taxes left for beneficiaries after the insured’s death.  Learn more

Mutual of Omaha

The Guaranteed Refund Option, available on all new qualified GUL and GUL Plus policies, offers your clients a 60-day window at three intervals in which to receive back a portion of their paid premiums.  Learn more

 Effective May 1, 2015 in Connecticut, AccumUL Answers, as well as new riders - Accelerated Death Benefit Rider and Disability Continuation of Planned Premium Rider - will be available for your clients. Learn more 

Effective May 1, 2015, Term Life Express will have a number of enhancements including the removal of the oral fluid requirement across all face amounts.   Learn more 

AIG

News from AIG Advanced Sales Learn more

Solutions to Top 3 Retirement Concerns

Generally speaking, there are three big risks people are trying to prepare for prior to retirement. They want to make sure their mortgage gets paid off. They want to ensure their children will have the opportunity to go to college. And if an income earner dies prior to retirement they want to make sure their surviving spouse and family has the income they need to continue to live the life they expected. But there are 3 additional risks retirees don’t often consider that modern life insurance can help address.  Watch video

Minnesota Life

Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trust May Be Right For Some Clients

Even though estate tax exemptions are at an all time high, some clients with high net worth still need to engage in traditional estate tax planning. An Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trust can be an effective planning technique for creating leverage in the estate planning process for these high net worth clients.  Learn more

Transamerica

 The products on the attached list will be discontinued, effective June 6, 2015.  Read More 

Accordia Life

Rethinking the Familiar

Scientists often make discoveries that cause us to rethink long-held beliefs about how the world works. In the world of financial planning, we are also forced to rethink problems and their solutions. Sometimes change comes suddenly from Congress in the form of a new law. Other times, it appears more gradually as society itself changes. In this issue of AMO Current Comment, consider how non-traditional families, digital assets and increased longevity have introduced new planning issues.  Learn more

Prudential

Policy Review Consumer Presentation

Have you ever wondered how the life insurance industry has changed since your last purchase and what new options are available? Is your life insurance policy performing to expectation and accomplishing what it was originally intended to? Leverage this presentation to encourage your clients to continually review their life insurance coverage and benefits.  Click here to download the file

Symetra

The Importance of Trust-Owned Life Insurance Reviews

If your clients are seeking to pass their legacy on to future generations, utilizing a trust funded with life insurance may be an ideal strategy. Just as important as having a properly structured trust is reviewing the trust on an annual basis.  Learn more

Lincoln Financial  

Lincoln Investment Advisors Market Commentary

Click below for a brief, client-approved recap of Lincoln’s observations on markets and volatility for March 2015.  Click here 

Americo

Telesales for Ultra Protector Series - Beginning May 1, 2015, Americo will no longer accept sales for Ultra Protector products that are made over the phone.  Applications can be submitted electronically on Americo's secure site (www.americo.com) or via fax to 800-395-9261.  Faxed applications should be accompanied by a Faxed Application Transmittal (form # AFSFAX2002).  As a reminder, Americo will still accommodate the sale of Eagle Premier Series via telephone at 855-248-8327.

 

Annuities / LTC

AIG 

New Products from AIG, American Pathway Fixed 5 and American Pathway Fixed 7.  Click here to learn more

State Life OneAmerica

All Asset Care Products now available in NJ.  Learn more

Interest Rates

AIG

Principal

Voya Secure Series

Voya Fixed Annuities

Voya SPIA 

Underwriting / New Business

Legal & General America - Announces New Underwriting Guidelines

Click here to read the announcement

Principal - Announces New Preferred Underwriting Guidelines

Click here to read the announcement 

Have you heard about Accordia Life Credits?

Introducing Accordia Life Credits, a new approach to underwriting at Accordia. 

MetLife How Can You Boost Your Clients from Standard to Elite?

With MetLife Promise Whole Life Select 10 and MetLife Enhanced Rate Plus. It reduces the timeframe to underwrite a policy, and those rated at Standard will be upgraded to Preferred or Elite. Learn more

Prudential - New marketing support on PruXpress

When you need quick information on how Prudential Underwriting considers specific conditions, look no further than their Rx for Success series.  Each piece focuses on one condition or illness to help you understand the various stages of that condition and how a client's rating could be affected.  Learn more

Mutual of Omaha

It is important that we periodically remind our distributors of certain procedures and policies regarding our Life Insurance products. Please review these reminders of our position regarding certain transactions.   Learn more 

Sales Incentives

American National

iPad Air 2 Contest - Qualify with as few as 9 life sales through iGO eapplictions from iPipeline.  Click here to learn more.  Contest runs 5/1/15 to 8/31/15.

Athene

Leaders of Olympus - Three programs with rewards Click here to learn more, including the Aruba trip. 

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