Compensation Bonuses Charge Backs Commissions Fee For Service Fee Only Flexible Compensation Overrides Target Premium Trips, etc

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Fee Only 1995 1006 – The Daily Reporter (Spencer, Iowa) – [link-News.Google] 1978 – GOV – Moss Report (p16) – Finally, we recommend that the NAIC, the FTC, or both, study how to encourage (a) the development of professional insurance consultants who would provide advice to consumers for a set fee, and… 1984 – SOA…

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Commissions / Compensation – Walker v LSW Matthew DeSantos – LSW’s Senior Vice-President of Distribution and Business Development (himself a former insurance agent) – DOC 792 p27> (p60) Q Now, I assume that the agents who sell your products are receiving some type of compensation; is that fair? A Yes. Q And what’s the method…

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Twisting Churning Replacements We have all heard some talk about twisting, and it has strong negative connotations. Universal Life, mainly because of its premium flexibility, has changed that. I recently heard one of our marketing people refer to replacement of old traditional permanent policies with Universal Life. He called it “The Enlightened Liberation of Assets”.…

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Universal Life – Commissions Mr. Douds – I know that one of the problems with the new products when they were first introduced was that agents didn’t feel that they paid high enough commissions, and since that time, companies interested in marketing those products have tried to adjust their compensation plans accordingly to make their…

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Fee for Services / Consulting Jesse included in his comments an indication that  the industry would trend towards levelized commissions and perhaps a fee for the extra service performed in the first year. Didn’t we see that there was an opportunity for the industry to move towards an extra fee with the Universal Life product?…

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Commissions “compensation patterns and product design” “Special Compensation” – “incidental advice” Renumeration levelized commission program We designed commission rules that anticipated a relatively large number of rollovers of existing policies;. ..full commissions are paid provided the new Universal Life face amount is at least two times the face amount of the replaced policy. —   Phillip B. Norton, not…

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