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Insurance & Technology
March 18, 2005
Wendy Toth |
Information Support Bankers Life seeks to grow business by offering a new Web portal as a single point of information access to its captive agent sales force.   |
Insurance & Technology
March 18, 2005
Lori Widmer |
Speeding the Cycle It isn't often that a company is able to find solutions to its processing problems in one place. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Digging for Dollars The insurance agent often is portrayed as going door to door with an oversized briefcase brimming with paper applications. While that might have been so in the 1950s, today, selling insurance means connecting with the customer, and it takes more than just a smile and a shoeshine. It takes knowledge. |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
Insurance & Technology
October 29, 2003
Greg MacSweeney |
What's your Legacy plan? One thing's for sure: A monolithic approach won't work. Depending on the particular application and platform, insurers' legacy replacement/enhancement strategies vary widely according to the project specifics. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Crackberry Addicts Fight Back Run afoul of the law while tapping or yapping into your Blackberry and you may have a case-against your employer. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney: New Focus On the Horizon While most Smith Barney advisor respondents were generally unimpressed by the acquisition of Legg advisors, it'll be interesting to see if Smith Barney's jettisoning of its asset management group -- and resulting new focus on retail distribution -- will rejuvenate the firm. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Convenience is Key Here is an interview with ING's COO on how technology supports all lines of business by providing convenience to ING's 200,000 points of distribution, including insurance agents, brokerage firms and third-party administrators. |
Insurance & Technology
July 8, 2008
Anne Rawland Gabriel |
Arch Reinsurance Automates Hardware Management With Ecora Arch Reinsurance improves security best practices and gains efficiencies by implementing a hardware-configuration monitoring and management tool. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Disgruntled Smith Barney Brokers Are Voting with Their Feet Sixty-nine brokers left Smith Barney, just ahead of a three-day weekend. Fridays before a long weekend are historically prime times for unhappy brokers to make a clean break, but the large number of brokers taking off on a single day is alarming. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2005
Rich Duprey |
A Scattershot Smith & Wesson Despite affirming guidance, the gunmaker represents a dangerous investment. |
CRM
February 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Listening, With Interest ING is growing satisfaction--and revenue--by asking customers and partners what they want, and then giving it to them. |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
David Worrell |
Media Mogul Making deals for unsold airtime helped this entrepreneur fund business growth. |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Chuck Prince: Smith Barney Goin' Nowhere Citigroup's CEO has been at the center of company news recently with his plans to cut costs including last week's announcement of about 17,000 job cuts. That cut may affect over 100 Smith Barney employees and about 30 advisors. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Gaffen & Weinberg |
Brokers React to Citi's Research Move Sallie Krawcheck, former head of independent research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, will head a new business unit of Citigroup that will operate under the name Smith Barney, and include the private client group. Smith Barney brokers are skeptical, though. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Devlin Smith |
Worth His Weight With a growing chain of weight-loss center locations, this franchisee proves he's got what it takes to succeed. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Weill Postpones Elimination of Salomon Name Sandy Weill, the chairman of Salomon Smith Barney's parent Citigroup, has informed brokers and other employees that plans to eliminate the Salomon name, a Wall Street hallmark for nearly a century, have been postponed, according to sources. |
Financial Advisor
September 2008
Mary Rowland |
The Great Escape One way brokers are escaping is by forming teams, while they are still at the wirehouses, to provide the base for a ready-made independent business. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Pay Package: Perks Balance Cuts? This week, Smith Barney will become the first firm to make a change to its payout grid as a result of the securities industry's recent battle over broker overtime pay and so-called chargebacks. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 27, 2005
Chris Murphy |
Blend It In - But Not Too Much Forgive IT workers at ING U.S. Financial Services, part of the Dutch banking giant ING Group N.V., if they had their worries when chief operating officer Catherine Smith took over leadership of the IT group a year ago. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Will Leitch |
CAP and Frown A long-running dispute over a Salomon Smith Barney Capital Accumulation Plan (CAP) is going to trial. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2004 |
Smith Holds Martha, Sells Atkins Starbucks CEO Orin Smith talks about the prospects of talked-about stocks. |
CIO
September 1, 2001
Stephanie Overby |
The Secrets of Their Success If your company's profits have vanished and systems are sunk, who you gonna call? At Waste Management, they called Maury Myers and Tom Smith, and now they're glad they did... |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Building a Better Separate-Account Mousetrap Separately managed accounts can be confusing, but the paperwork and operations behind them need not be -- or at least that's the thrust of a new effort by Smith Barney Consulting Group. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2012 |
CCIM Connections After his long and successful NFL career, Emmitt Smith set his sights on real estate and embarked on the path to the pin. |
CIO
January 1, 2002
Derek Slater |
How to Keep Up with Emerging Technologies A CIO gives advice on keeping up with the never-ending avalanche of technology developments. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Two Different Directions From Oilfield Services Smith International and BJ Services came in from different directions. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Jay Greene |
Teaching Microsoft To Make Nice? Microsoft's general counsel is settling suits and turning enemies into partners. |
Insurance & Technology
June 1, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Crossing the Great IT/Business Divide For insurance companies, the foundation of IT/business alignment is an IT strategy that is congruent with business strategy and has the full support of the business. |
Registered Rep.
May 7, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Smith Barney Closes a Few Offices, Prepares to Consolidate Others The firm prepares to consolidate as part of a larger cost-cutting program in the works at parent Citigroup. |
Registered Rep.
May 30, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
The New Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck was recruited to restore the credibility of Smith Barney and lead the business through its toughest slump in a generation. Krawcheck wants Smith Barney advisors to more than double their average annual production to $1 million. |
InternetNews
February 21, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Unchained Software: Microsoft Liberates APIs European Commission cautiously eyes Microsoft's new commitment to interoperability. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 21, 2008
Paula Damiano |
Wells Fargo Introduces vSafe, a Virtual Safe-Deposit Box Security and convenience -- that's what San Francisco-based Wells Fargo is promising customers with its new vSafe service. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006 |
More on Color-Coding Contacts How you enter your contact name affects how Outlook responds. |
Registered Rep.
July 25, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney Fined $50 Million for Market Timing; More Firms, Reps To Be Fined So you thought the market timing scandal was over? Think again. |
CIO
November 15, 2002
Susannah Patton |
Waste Management Cleans Up Its Act After accounting scandals, Waste Management installed a financial system enterprisewide and implemented new, unified IT systems allowing access to data necessary for business decisions. |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2004
David Gardner |
Can Taser Protect Itself? An interview with Taser's co-founder and president, Tom Smith about his company's products, prospects, and future. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
John Churchill |
Sallie's Back At first glance, this second coming of Sallie Krawcheck probably looks like a cakewalk compared to her first adventure in 2002. But, make no mistake: Smith Barney is not the awesome brokerage it appears to be on paper. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2005
Mark Chalifoux |
Smith Leading Eagles to New Heights Now a junior, Craig Smith has his Boston College Eagles in the top 10 and many in the country are finally starting to notice this upstart team. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Loud and Clear Boost sales by selling customers on your competitive advantage. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2010
Rich Smith |
Southwest: Non-Stop Dumbness Why did you so unceremoniously escort Generation-X's "biggest" hero, professional funnyman Kevin Smith, off a plane over the weekend for a PR disaster? |
Insurance & Technology
August 10, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Real-Time Rendezvous Noting the advancements other carriers had made in application processing, Service Lloyds decided to modernize its 20-year-old homegrown legacy system to handle ACORD XML and generate quotes online in real time. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 6, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
First Command Bank Perks Up Loan Process Bank uses an automated loan application solution to increase productivity of loan officers. |
Sports Illustrated
July 24, 2001
Peter King |
It's Now Or Never The Bengals have run out of patience with Akili Smith, who's in a fight for his job... |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Gwen Moran |
What's in a Name? Is a risque business name right for your business? |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2007
Dave Mock |
Smith Micro's Macro Merger In a smart move, Smith Micro Software acquires its biggest competitor, the mobile-solutions division of PCTEL. |
CRM
August 1, 2009
Christopher Musico |
The Power of Information OSIsoft uses Socialtext to revamp an outdated knowledge base. |
