ASA E-News | February 12, 2019
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Our team is growing!
Jason Marshall has joined The ASA Group as the firms newest Brokerage Manager. As a Brokerage Manager, Marshall will specialize in providing successful advisors with solutions to the financial concerns of their most valued clients. Prior to accepting this role, Marshall was an award winning Financial Professional who specialized in helping business owners, individuals, and families plan for their financial future.

SEC's Best Interest Regulation and state fiduciary rules could spawn a plethora of headaches.
The consensus in the brokerage business is that when the Securities and Exchange Commission rolls out its Best Interest Regulation later this year it will prove to be far more workable than the now-dead DOL Fiduciary Rule.

Life insurers in Arkansas.
In Arkansas, the life insurance industry generates approximately 10,000 jobs. Arkansas residents have $198 billion in total life insurance coverage with state residents owning 2 million individual policies and overage amounts averaging $83,000 per policy holder. Group life insurance amounts to $70 billion.

Maturity risk is the next waive of problems for insurance agents.
There is a little-known problem for trust-owned life insurance trustees – clients living to age 100 – the maturity age for many older life insurance policies. The problem is that many policies in their portfolio will not pay out a full death benefit at maturity and the chances of insureds living to maturity are increasing.

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