Last week I was able to enjoy a socially-distanced dinner on the patio at the home of W. Harold Petersen, one of the pioneers and early champions of modern American income protection insurance, not to mention the retired founder of Petersen International Underwriters. I have always heeded his sage business advice and commentary. At the […]
Amongst the usual risk divisions of life and health insurance products, one can find many sub-groupings of unique plans that are extremely useful to the consumer and can be very profitable to the producer when one knows how and why to properly market and prescribe them. Although commonly considered inferior as outliers to rank and […]
Among publicly traded companies, executives are compensated in various ways. The most usual of compensation includes salaries, bonuses and stock options. It has become commonplace for many officers of large corporations to receive relatively modest salaries, but be awarded astronomical stock options that frequently equate to upwards of 80% of total compensation. But when these […]
The Oxford Dictionary defines the word “celebrity” as “a famous person, especially in entertainment or sport.” In this age so influenced by the millennial mindset, fame has found its way to persons of many genres that tend to push the boundaries of antiquated interpretations of sport and entertainment commonly found throughout the twentieth century. Our […]