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Monthly Archive March, 2008

Interview with Allianz Life’s Tom Burns: Head of Distribution Calls for Annuity Companies to Work Together; Describes Unambiguous Commitment to Consumers’ Interests

March 31, 2008

It’s no secret that I’ve been critical of certain annuity sales practices, especially those associated with equity-indexed (fixed indexed) annuities. I’ve cited Allianz Life specifically as a company whose past product development and marketing strategies have not been good for the long-terms interests of the annuity industry. In stating publicly what many in the industry [...]

New Interviews and Essays to be Published Here Beginning Monday; Leaders & Innovators Interview Series Expands in Research Magazine

March 26, 2008

When I came up with the idea for a blog based, in part, on interviews with executive leaders in financial services I couldn’t have known how popular the one-of-a-kind conversations would become. Nor could I have foreseen that Research Magazine, under the byline David Macchia Interviews, would publish one of my interviews each month in [...]