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MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights

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  • Apex AwardsBuilt with the combined might of LIMRA and LOMA, and a history of award-winning excellence for over 60 years, MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights — our new flagship magazine — combines the best of LL Global in one easy-to-access publication. Learn more.

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COVER STORY: Mapping the Contours: A New Topography for Workplace Benefits

Providers, plan sponsors, and employers aiming to meet worker benefit needs have multiple issues to consider and address. This issue’s cover story maps out some of those issues, provides an overview of the trends shaping today’s work¬place, and outlines the evolution of core and emerging benefit products. “Today, people have a heightened sensitivity to their own insurance, retirement, savings, and financial planning needs.”

Front Page News

A new section of our updated magazine, featuring relevant industry news, snippets of research, interesting facts affecting the financial services, upcoming webinars, and more.

Aligning Benefits Communication With Employee Preference

How do employees want to communi¬cate with their benefit carriers, and does this align with the options carriers make available? This article presents results of a LIMRA survey of over 2,000 employees enrolled in insurance benefits, looking at their preferences for interaction. “With a plethora of new digital communication methods to choose from — along with more traditional channels such as telephone and mail — carriers must be thoughtful about where they focus their efforts.”

The Future of Benefits: Today’s Lessons for Tomorrow’s Workplace

An overview of The Hartford’s 2021 Future of Benefits Study, which polled U.S. workers and HR benefits decision makers. Results are presented in terms of bedrock benefits, employee comprehension and holistic well-being, technology, and education. “Employers need to adopt holistic strategies to address the varied needs of their employees, and to under¬stand better how they can lean on their insurance carriers for help.”

Signs of Normalcy: Workplace Life and Disability Premium Forecasts

An infographic storyline of pre-, during, and post-pandemic effects on life and disability premiums, including reasons for industry optimism in these areas, as well as projected in-force premium growth rates for 2021–2023.

Powering the Future of Financial Services: Strategies and Best Practices in Analytics

LIMRA recently conducted research to document the best practices life insurance and retirement companies use to grow, manage, and oversee their analytics teams. This article outlines successful strategies in terms of leadership support, team structure, software tools, recruitment and development, risk management, methodological changes, and ethical issues. “Analytics is a powerful tool to improve the profitability, operations, and customer experience of the life and retire¬ment industries.”

Talking Tech With Mike Fanning

MarketFacts recently spoke with Mike Fanning — Head of MassMutual Financial U.S. — about his role and the company’s ongoing engagement with emerging technologies and FinTech partnerships. “If you are truly customer-focused, which we need to be as an industry, InsurTechs will accelerate the known coming to an end, but that will also allow us to provide protection to more people and their families.”

Transformation Through Modernization

This article speaks to the modernization of your IT infrastructure providing a platform for new business development, growth, and increasing connection with all stakeholders. Learn tips, tricks, and best practices for tackling this type of transformation. “The more you anticipate and plan for the risks that most often plague modernization projects, the faster and more effective the implementation will be.”

Heavy Weather for Compliance: Best Practices in Response to DOL PTE 2020-02

A potentially heavy compliance burden lies ahead for carriers, broker-dealers, or investment advisors intending to utilize PTE 2020-02, with a deadline of December 20, 2021. Learn best practices for determining these potential changes, and areas to consider when proactively responding to this exemption. “There are specifics that firms can focus on now, to smooth their path.”

An Important Angle: Data Privacy Concerns in Financial Wellness Programs

How can provider organizations design effective financial wellness programs that balance person-alization with data privacy and use transparency to build trust with employers and participants? This article — based on executive roundtable discussions sponsored by LL Global and PwC — discusses the critical considerations, and factors that will determine success. “It is important for providers and employers to create effective offerings by balancing personalization with data privacy — providing clarity about data sources, uses, and protections.”

Global News

This section of the magazine features our global members, with an introductory commentary by LL Global’s president of international operations, a celebration of Manulife partnering with LIMRA to recruit best-in-class advisors, and information on the Latin American Conference coming up in October.

Networking & Learning News

This issue’s networking and learning news section celebrates the winners of LOMA’s prestigious Education Awards, as well as LOMA Society updates, conference recaps, Professional Development Council news, and upcoming events.

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MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 3, 2021

MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 3, 2021

Issue number 3-2021 of our flagship magazine — MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights — focuses on the evolving landscape of workplace benefits, as well as a feature on technology trends. It offers executive perspectives on digital solutions, technology, and life insurance — as well as insights on current trends in disability, retirement, data privacy, and compliance response to the DOL PTE 2020-02.

MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 2, 2021

MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 2, 2021

Issue number 2-2021 of our flagship magazine — MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights — focuses on insurance trends, with a feature on professional development. It offers executive perspectives on the future of the industry, as well as current trends in workplace benefits, retirement, and the Help Protect Our Families campaign.

MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 1, 2021

MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — Number 1, 2021

Issue number 1-2021 of our revamped flagship magazine — MarketFacts: Your RESOURCE for Industry Insights — explores industry trends and executive perspectives on 2021, reflections on the current environment, as well as current trends in insurance, workplace benefits, retirement, professional development, and the ongoing virtual work.

About MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights Information – Best Practices – Thought Leadership

Built with the combined might of LIMRA and LOMA, and a history of award-winning excellence for over 60 years, MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights — our new flagship magazine — combines the best of LL Global in one easy-to-access publication. Published quarterly, our mission is to bring the latest, most pertinent industry information to our readership — derived from industry research, company best practices, and insightful thought leadership.

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2021 Publication Schedule

Issue  Article Submissions Due  Distribution 
 Number 1 October 19, 2020 Print and Digital Editions
January 25, 2021
 Number 2 January 19, 2021 Print and Digital Editions
Online: April 23, 2021
 Number 3 April 19, 2021 Print and Digital Editions
Online: July 23, 2021
 Number 4 July 19, 2021 Print and Digital Editions
October 22, 2021
 Number 1, 2021 October 19, 2021 Print and Digital Editions
January 23, 2022


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