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Published on: 12/5/2006
Last Visited: 12/13/2006
The concern surrounding the interpretation of definitions and what they actually mean is a significant problem among advisors, says Tim Landry, director of living benefits at MSA Financial, a Montreal-based managing general agent: "The real issue isn't a significant difference in definitions anymore; they're sufficiently close in key points.
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Landry believes the key to increasing CI sales isn't really in solving the mystery of definitions; it's in providing advisors with service and training and giving them "a remuneration system that rewards consistent high-level production, persistency and good claims ratios."