Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Ellen Lindner A captive agent is an insurance professional who exclusively ...
Insurers, whose efforts to enter banking had been spotty at best, showed real signs of progress last year -- with the biggest successes coming from companies that used a captive sales force. State ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bobby L. Hickman is a longtime business and financial journalist who brings decades of ...
The new Department of Labor fiduciary proposal is nearly 500 pages and has a lot of details. But the biggest fight is going to come down to how agents are regulated – and that goes for both ...
Medicare agents and brokers help you pick a plan that fits your needs. Independent agents offer plans from multiple companies, while captive agents don't. Agents and brokers save you time by guiding ...
Life insurance agents who are limited to selling proprietary products may find it difficult to meet a fiduciary standard as it is being defined by a task force helmed by a fiduciary advocate. The ...
We’ve all seen the wealth management industry barrel toward independence in recent years as more and more wirehouse advisors lose patience for conflicts of interest, reject constraints on product ...
PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the difference between an independent insurance agent and a captive insurance agent, and which is better for Florida residents? A HelloNation ...
In the world of insurance, it can be a dog eat dog world. More and more insurance carriers are moving from a captive agent model, where sales representatives are on the company payroll, to independent ...
The question of whether captive agents are independent contractors or employees of an insurance company is at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed against several GEICO companies. The suit ...
Three weeks of agent fury has forced a partial concession from the insurance giant. Everything else still stands ...