Marketing

  • The Threat of a Declining China
    The Threat of a Declining China

    Prospects of late are looking less rosy

    By Dr. Mark A. DeWeaver

    Many Americans view China’s emergence as the world’s second largest economy with trepidation. The US, it seems, is in decline. China is a ‘rising power’ destined to take over America’s role as global hegemon sometime in the not-too-distant future.
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  • How to Stay Sane During Financial Peaks & Valleys
    How to Stay Sane During Financial Peaks & Valleys

    5 Tips for Dealing with Lifestyle Changes & Money Flux

    You don’t have to be a trader on the world’s markets to experience the financial roller coaster, says mathematician Lambros Klouvidakis.
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  • Does Your Leadership Measure Up?
    Does Your Leadership Measure Up?

    Business Expert Identifies Benefits, Pitfalls of 3 Leadership Styles

    The top five leaders most admired by the world’s business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Jack Welch – in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC.
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  • Managing Young Sales Superstars
    Managing Young Sales Superstars

    Seven Ways to Keep Young Sales Reps from Crashing and Burning

    By Lance Cooper

    Millennials enter the nation’s sales teams as the most parented generation in history. Yet, they do not have the goals or plans to achieve compelling ambitions. Today, 20 million young men delay maturing until their late 20s and are without solid commitments and responsibilities guiding their lives.
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  • Dallas Cowboys, Nationwide: Innovations in Cooperative Marketing
    Dallas Cowboys, Nationwide: Innovations in Cooperative Marketing

    Dallas Cowboys, DeMarcus Ware Answer Call to Join the Nation

    Two giant playmakers joined forces today and announced a new partnership between the Dallas Cowboys and Nationwide Insurance.
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  • Time for the Federal Reserve to Taper?
    Time for the Federal Reserve to Taper?

    What would Greenspan do?

    from NewOak Risk and Financial Services

    "Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and a number of other market pros went on the offensive with the suggestion that central bank intervention was actually holding back stocks from achieving even higher levels,” say James Frischling, President and Co-Founder of NewOak.
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  • Top 10 Questions about Compensation for Financial Professionals
    Top 10 Questions about Compensation for Financial Professionals

    New guide from the Principal Financial Group provides answers to common inquiries

    With the one-year anniversary of the new retirement plan disclosure regulation nearing, financial professionalscontinue to face questions about the reasonableness of fees they charge.
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  • Understanding and Planning for your LGBT Clients
    Understanding and Planning for your LGBT Clients

    How financial services professionals can meet the unique needs of a diverse community.

    By Debra Abbott-Walker

    Over the last decade, many companies have paid increasing attention to the buying power and consumer habits of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) market. But until very recently, little attention has been focused on the financial experience of the LGBT community.
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  • How Top Companies are Elevating Loyalty, Productivity and Innovation in Their Workforce
    How Top Companies are Elevating Loyalty, Productivity and Innovation in Their Workforce

    Treat Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource with Care

    When a successful formula is discovered in the business world, it’s copied and becomes part of standard operating procedure throughout entire industries. The newest SOP trend among leading businesses? – Focusing on employee and family well-being, says Gary Kunath, who was honored nationally as Businessman of the Year and recognized with a dinner hosted by the President of the United States.
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  • On CEFs: Friends, Clients, Investors… Lend Me Your Ears
    On CEFs: Friends, Clients, Investors… Lend Me Your Ears

    Profit taking and expectations of higher rates push their prices down

    by Steve Selengut

    Unfortunately, I am not permitted by regulation to make this announcement, so please disregard it. Big brother does not think you know that: (1) all investment securities can and will fluctuate in price for many reasons, and that other professionals (and non professionals) may disagree with either the data or the conclusions that follow.
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  • Quarter-to-Quarter Variable Annuity Sales Improve in Q1 2013
    Quarter-to-Quarter Variable Annuity Sales Improve in Q1 2013

    Variable Annuity Net Sales Return to Positive, Net Assets Grow to New Record

    The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) today announced final first-quarter 2013 sales results for the United States annuity industry, based on data reported by Morningstar, Inc. and Beacon Research. Industry-wide annuity sales for the first quarter reached nearly $49.6 billion, down 2.0 percent from $50.6 billion in the previous quarter and down 6.6 percent from $53.1 billion in the first quarter of 2012.
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  • “Turbulent Teens” continue with potential for rapid growth in U.S. GDP
    “Turbulent Teens” continue with potential for rapid growth in U.S. GDP

    Keon: New turbulence will be less frightening, more exhilirtating

    The United States could see much more robust economic growth than the consensus of market analysts expects, with the potential for more than five percent in real gross domestic product growth sometime in 2014, says Ed Keon, managing director and portfolio manager for Quantitative Management Associates, in his most recent perspective report. QMA is an asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc., (NYSE: PRU).
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