Finding your Competitive Advantage and Staying Relevant

Saving lives with the Galleri blood test

In this episode, we are talking with Lindsay Hanson, Chief Marketing Officer from John Hancock, Alex Yang, Marketing Actuary from MunichRE, and Horacio Herrera-Fajer, Head of Life Insurance Partnerships at GRAIL. We will be discussing the Galleri blood test for cancer and how John Hancock and MunichRe are using this new technology to help their policyholders stay healthy by detecting cancer earlier. GRAIL is a new healthcare company focused on saving lives and improving health by pioneering new technologies for early cancer detection.

LTCi Technology, Helping Brokers Sell More LTC

We talked with Marc Glickman, CEO, and Founder at BuddyIns, about the trends, challenges, and opportunities he sees for the Long-Term Care Insurance industry and his new platform Benefit Buddy. Marc co-founded a community of LTC planning advocates called BuddyIns, an insurtech for the LTC industry, whose mission is to provide education and technology to agencies, agents, and advisors that can help the over 50 million unpaid family caregivers and the next 50 million to come.

Finding your Competitive Advantage and Staying Relevant

In this episode of Beyond the Challenge, we went back to some of our favorite interviews to see what some of our guests said when we asked them how they were finding their competitive advantage and staying relevant.   In this episode, you will hear from Nick Cecere, Executive Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer at Thrivent, Jeremy Bill, Chief Insurance Officer at Bestow, Brad Mendenhall, President, Insurance Solutions at Concourse Financial Group, and Rob Arena, President of Global Atlantic Financial Group.

Annuities, A Critical Vehicle for Retirement

We talked with Rick Hodgdon, President, and Head of Insurance at CL Life and Annuity about the trends, challenges, and opportunities he sees for the Insurance industry. Rick has extensive experience as a CEO leading multiple life and annuity insurance and reinsurance companies and is recognized as an industry leader in the US and international insurance markets. Since 1978, CL Life and Annuity Insurance Company has been delivering quality products to meet its clients' financial needs. The company maintains its focus on providing high-value retirement savings tools. CL Life is conservative by nature, creative in design and delivers on its promises.

Creating a Digital Insurance Company

In this episode, we are talking with Jeremy Bill, Chief Insurance Officer at Bestow about the trends, challenges, and opportunities he sees for the Insurance industry. Bestow is one of the first all-digital insurance companies created to bring leading-edge life insurance technologies to make insurance accessible to more people. Jeremy is responsible for all aspects of Operations, Claims, Actuary and Finance at Bestow and has over 20 years of experience in the Insurance and Financial services marketplace.