e-nabling the Insurance e-Distribution Chain
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Insurance distribution has changed radically with the advent of the Internet. The "Field of Dreams" early vision of insurance sales (if you build it, they will come) has been superseded by e-business reality -- just because you built a Web site didn't mean customers would beat a path to your virtual door to buy their insurance.
These days, business-to-business elements of e-business are capturing the lion's share of the attention. But don't think the consumer is being ignored. Brokers are now emerging from the threat of disintermediation with a renewed focus on the client and prospect -- and armed with new partnerships, kitbags bursting with additional products, and a formidable set of Internet tools. Direct writers are also vying for share with increasingly sophisticated Internet, CRM, and other tools, as are a crop of new players. Never before has the customer been at the centre of such a fierce battle.
Here, then, are some of the tools, solutions, and services that are being deployed in the fight for wallet share. The information featured in this section will focus primarily on distribution as it relates to the Internet and insurance business in Canada, given the nature of this site.
If you have a comment, paper, product or service which is Insurance Distribution related and you would like us to consider posting it, then submit to Doug Grant at doug.grant@insurance-canada.ca.
Information & Articles
Articles, editorials, commentary, research and published material pertaining to Canadian insurance distribution.
- USA Real Time/Download Campaign Mascot Eddie Launches Blog
- Western Financial Group Increases Ownership Position in Falkins Insurance
- Asset Managers Need To Improve Their Segmentation Efforts To Match Varied Advisor Preferences, According To The Latest Findings From Fa Vision: kasina
- Advisors Say Quality Of Asset Manager Web Sites Impacts Product Sales: kasina
- Critical illness sales show the largest percentage increase in 2009, according to the annual Eastbridge voluntary sales study
- Ontario Brokers To Be On High Alert for Possibility of Cheque Fraud in Their Brokerages: IBAO
- Optimizing the Role of e-Business: kasina
- J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Despite an Increase in Overall Satisfaction, Canadian Investors Have Diversified Their Portfolio Among More Firms
- SGI CANADA sells shares in Cooke Insurance
- Accident and Critical Illness Top the Voluntary Industry’s List of Growth Products according to Eastbridge Study
- Great Deals on Insurance: Ingle International
- Insure Your Apartment from Your iPhone, a Desjardins General Insurance Innovation
- Consumer Shopping for Auto Insurance Grows Online: ACT
- Advisors Plan To Expand Services Offered In Response To Clients' Evolving Retirement Needs, According To Latest Fa Vision Survey: kasina
- IBAO Insurers Announce Their Support of iClarify Broker Validation Services
- Accenture Global Survey Finds Insurers Will Invest $84 Million, on Average, Over the Next Three Years To Improve Distribution Strategy
- Eastbridge Consulting Group releases the latest report on voluntary critical illness
- The key to financial literacy? Continued access to professional financial advice says Advocis to task force
- Insurance Distribution On-The-Go!! Wipro Technologies
- More than Half of Consumers are Considering Switching Insurance Providers Next Time they Purchase a Policy, Accenture Survey Finds
- ORBiT Education Days for Ontario Brokerage Principals, CSRs and Producers
- "The New Paradigm of Insurance Distribution" by Sanjay Nene and Arup Ghosh, Wipro Technologies
- Andrew Agencies Ltd. Acquires Miles Agencies of Weyburn, SK. Effective April 1, 2010
- Sun Life Financial and National Bank give Canadians an integrated solution to simplify their banking
- Advocis: CSTO proceed with caution
- SunGard Identifies Ten Trends for 2010 in Wealth Management
- Sun Life Financial reveals industry-leading financial needs analysis tool
- IBAO, RMS and Compu-Quote announce iClarify Data Validation Pilot will begin across Ontario
- Manulife Investments renews product allocation approach in partnership with The QWeMA Group
- Advocis provides advice on CCIR's strategic plan
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