perspectives BROKERAGE INDUSTRY INSIGHTS SUMMER 2018
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Features
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ould There Be a World Without Brokerage?
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Though Brokerage General Agencies (BGAs) have
been around for less than four decades, BGAs play
a vital role across the insurance industry. BGAs
increased the availability of insurance and financial
service products to consumers. But what does the
future hold for BGAs? We take a look at where
BGAs are heading in the next 40 years, and ways
technology will help the independent brokerage
industry continue to grow.
JEAN FEINGOLD
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How to efficiently use technology to manage your
agency operations while maintaining client relation-
ships and growing your agency. OneHQ.com’s Katie
Elliott explains how technology has become the new
normal throughout the insurance industry.
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KATIE ELLIOTT
Departments
4 CEO Insights
The Virtual BGA
DAN LABERT
21 Legislative Update
Uncertainty in a World that
Values Certainty
24 Member Profile
Chuck Olson and OCI Services,
Inc of Omaha, Nebraska
27 Life Happens
LIAM 365
34 Index of Advertisers
34 Calendar of Events
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Brokerage in Motion
NAILBA Continues to Staff Up
ROBERT N. GARNEAU, CLU, ChFC
MARK VALENTINI, MPP
22 NAILBA
Charitable Foundation
Meet our 2018 Grant
Recipients and their Sponsors
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