Welcome to Insurance Solutions! Insurance means comfort and peace of mind, but finding the right policy isn’t always easy. With insurance giants spending big money on advertising, clients can easily become numbers, and your best interests often fall through the cracks. At Insurance Solutions, we look out for you so that you can spend your time and energy on what is most important in your life: family, friends, business and leisure. From business insurance to car, home, or health & life insurance, we will provide you with the guidance and support you need so that you can protect your assets. While any insurance agency can offer you quotes and plan comparisons, our services go beyond the...
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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump this week sent a message to “The Suburban Housewives of America," and in a single tweet summed up his strategy for shoring up support in communities critical to his reelection chances: Scare them. “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!” he wrote. In tweets, campaign ads and new policies, Trump is trying to win over suburbanites by promising to protect their “beautiful" neighborhoods from the racial unrest that has gripped some U.S. cities this summer. He's sent federal agents to stem violence in cities, warned of a way of life being “...
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When he was elected in 2011, some naysayers branded Dr Chia Shi-Lu an "instant MP". The orthopaedic surgeon was a last-minute People's Action Party (PAP) candidate for the general election, after Mr Steve Tan abruptly withdrew his candidacy on Nomination Day. Then Tanjong Pagar GRC MP Baey Yam Keng was moved to Tampines GRC to replace Mr Tan, and Dr Chia took Mr Baey's place. Overnight, Dr Chia went from being on the reserve list to becoming an MP, after the PAP saw a walkover in Tanjong Pagar GRC. Looking back on his time in politics, the two-term MP recalled how he had to work doubly hard to win residents' trust. "Most candidates would have been on the ground for one or two years before...
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Swiss Re completes sale of ReAssure to Phoenix Group Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has announced the completion of the sale of its ReAssure Group plc subsidiary to Phoenix Group Holdings plc, following the receipt of all regulatory and antitrust approvals. As previously announced, Swiss Re received a cash payment of £1.2 billion and shares in Phoenix representing a 13.3% stake. Applications have now been made to the FCA and the LSE for the 277,277,138 new ordinary shares of Phoenix being issued to Swiss Re, representing roughly 27.8% of the enlarged share capital of Phoenix, to be admitted to the premium listing segment of the FCA’s Official List and to trading on the LSE’s...
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Study of 173,000 financial professionals shows that personal and authentic content receives 10 times more engagement than from corporate Social posts in 2019 garnered in excess of 23 million engagements across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter Hearsay Systems, the trusted leader in compliant digital communications and workflow solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the findings of its third annual Financial Services Social Media Content Study. The study is the most comprehensive of its kind, analyzing Hearsay’s anonymized data from 173,000 advisors and agents who reached 77.6M consumers, of which approximately 13.5 million unique consumers engaged back. It...
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Being a team leader is a challenge in any context, and the difficulties of managing a team are exacerbated in times of global crisis and isolation, like during the current COVID-19 pandemic. On top of needing to navigate new limitations, leaders also have to take precautions, like working remotely. Space for your team to feel supported To be able to embrace new processes and manage internal crises on a team, it is vital to acknowledge what all team members are going through. “We cannot help but be scared by the situation in which we are all living. Fear is a basic human emotion. A lack of information fuels this sense of fear. As adults, we try to hide our fear, which is a behavior that...
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“Early in this whole Covid-19 crisis we decided to research what it actually meant and look at the risks and the statistical data. We had a choice: either, we're going to shut down or we're going to try and do something that would continue employment for a lot of our employees. And we decided that we weren’t going to close down. We realised that we could actually provide essential disinfecting and sanitation services, and we felt confident that we could offer these services to clients. Our client base is about 80% nonprofit or social housing groups and they jumped at the opportunity. The first risk was the financial risk. Can we get the right gear? Yes, we can. But it was in short supply....
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Chinese Consumers Show All-Critical Resilience on the Road to Recovery “May you live in interesting times” is purportedly an old Chinese curse used ironically to indicate times of trouble. For me – and I suspect for many comms professionals – the COVID-19 pandemic potentially represents the most “interesting” project of a lifetime – both personally and professionally. From a Hong Kong perspective, it was interesting to see how rapidly people in early February united in the fight against the virus, coming off the back of six months of civil unrest. The muscle memory from SARS 17 years earlier was quickly activated, with the masks coming out en masse almost instantly and the rules of social...
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Image source: Getty Images. Quite a few FTSE 100 shares appear to offer high dividend yields, based on forecast data. But many of these payouts have been cancelled or suspended. Today I want to look at a FTSE 100 stock with an 8% dividend yield that looks very safe to me. You may not be familiar with Phoenix Group Holdings (LSE: PHNX). But this £4bn FTSE 100 firm is set to become the UK’s largest life insurance and pension provider when its acquisition of rival ReAssure completes later this year. This FTSE 100 share is a hidden high-yield hero Unlike better-known rivals such as Aviva or Legal & General, Phoenix specialises in buying up life insurance and pension policies...
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The White House pledged over two weeks ago to cover coronavirus treatment for uninsured Americans — but the administration still doesn't have a plan for how to do it. Trump officials are still grappling with key questions about how exactly to implement the treatment fund, including how to determine if a patient qualifies for the new federal dollars, an administration source said. Adding to the challenge, they’re still figuring out how to divvy up funding that hospitals and physicians say is desperately needed. The delay in setting up the fund indicates the difficulty building a massive entitlement on the fly amid an unprecedented crisis. And there was little time to fully vet the plan...
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