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MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights

MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights

Access insightful thought leadership on the forces driving the financial services industry. Our award-winning magazine content speaks to critical issues for the industry, including technology, retirement, insurance, workplace benefits, globalization, financial wellness, employee productivity, professional development and assessment, operations, management, and products and services. Click here for more information about our new flagship magazine!

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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: An Industry United: Working Together to Address the Life Insurance Coverage Gap

A compilation of interviews with six leaders of insurance trade associations speak to the importance of helping Americans to obtain life insurance, in support of LL Global’s Help Protect Our Families campaign. “This is the first time that the professional trade organizations, life insurance companies, and distribution partners have joined forces with a unified voice and singular goal.”

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.

View From the Top: Making the Invisible Visible: Promoting Gender Parity in Leadership

This article features the perspective of Terry Stone, head of Americas and executive sponsor of Inclusion and Diversity at Oliver Wyman. Her insights on the obstacles and opportunities for gender parity in leadership roles include uncovering men’s and women’s different interpretations of the rules in the “leadership game.” “Inclusion and diversity affect everyone, not just those who fall into a diverse category.”

The Once and Future Industry: Looking Forward to 2023

What will financial services look like in 2023? Members of the LL Global Board of Directors discuss how technology, digital, and regulation may affect and potentially disrupt or evolve the industry of the future. “We are most interested in opportunities that open additional distribution channels, facilitate stronger service, and ultimately improve cost and accessibility.”

News and Views on Financial Wellness

Based on data from the LIMRA Financial Wellness Executive Task Force, this article explores advisor perspectives of financial wellness, including increased interest in a more holistic approach to financial planning among clients and advisors. “Advisors play a critical role in establishing financial security for their clients, including those who work in the retail, benefits, and retirement markets.”

Unlocking the Mysteries of Life Insurance Sales Success

This article outlines successful strategies for life insurance sales, including success factors and an analysis of recent data to provide clues to unlocking the mystery of success in this arena. “Nearly 30 million Americans have been infected by COVID-19 … there is opportunity now to expand life insurance coverage.”

Financial Advisors for Life

Based on a recent LIMRA study — Life Insurance in Life Stages — this article looks at the characteristics of consumers who work with financial advisors in terms of income, life stage, and personal preference. “Valuable expert advice helps consumers to start their adult lives with a solid foundation of risk protection.”

Remote Realities: Navigating the Virtual Workplace

The drastic set of circumstances in 2020 created an entirely new context for remote work. This article discusses the benefits and challenges of remote work for employees and employers alike. “For companies and their workforces to thrive, it is imperative that foundations are in place to offer resources and help people manage new ways of working.”

Enhancing Personal Brand With Professional Development

This article looks at defining your personal brand, and improving that brand through professional development. “No matter what role you play in your organization, you are the architect, leader, and owner off your personal brand.”

Shifting Priorities: Rethinking Voluntary Benefits for a Dispersed Workforce

A rethinking of voluntary benefits in terms of trends pointing to new opportunities for carriers, as well as challenges in communication, enrollment, and service. “Recognizing the subtle differences [among employers] will help workplace benefit providers better engage with employers in an increasingly remote landscape.”

HSAs for All: Ownership and Investment Options

Given the rising profile of health savings accounts (HSAs), and the implications for retirement security, this article looks at worker and retiree use of HSAs and their investment options. “All users should have access to the full range of benefits that HSAs offer.”

Global News

This section of the magazine features our global members, including Manulife Vietnam’s celebration of MFA graduates, Kyobo Life’s response to the pandemic, and Taiking Insurance and China’s novel approach to retirement and eldercare.

Networking & Learning News

This issue’s networking and learning news features Facilitated Learning Programs that emphasize social learning, connections, collaboration, and innovation. In addition, this section recaps the virtual Distribution Conference, LOMA Society updates, Professional Development Council news, and upcoming events.

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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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  • LIMRA is the recognized trusted source for industry knowledge. From our unique vantage point, we are able to connect our member companies to the research, thought leadership, and solutions that will help them make better business decisions, improve productivity, and grow profitability.

    Advertising in MarketFacts: Your Resource for Industry Insights leverages the trust we’ve built with our members and readers over the last century. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to access an audience of executive-level decision makers in the financial services industry. For detailed information on advertising (including ad rates, specs, and publication schedule), please  download a PDF  of our media kit.

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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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