Agency Management

Remote Deposit Offers New Road to Efficiency for Agencies

ATMs revolutionized banking more than 25 years ago and today online banking is now commonplace. And, now a new banking product, remote deposit, is being utilized to greatly improve business efficiencies,…

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Buy-Sell Agreements

Current working partners have to find a way and method of buying out a deceased or permanently disabled member. A well prepared Buy-Sell agreement prepares for this possibility. Once again,…

Federal Estate and Gift Tax Basics

Estate planning generally consists of a plan to distribute accumulated wealth upon death, using life insurance to protect survivors from financial distress, and minimizing taxes and expenses associated with this…

The Basics of Estate Planning

Estate planning can be defined as planning for the transfer of wealth (a large amount, a small amount, or something in between) at a person’s death, and the making of…

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Intro to Agency Purchases & Mergers

The differences between “purchases” and “mergers” is so great that one is forced to wonder how they became so closely related in agency management literature. The two activities are fundamentally…

What’s My Agency Worth?

A water bottler prices each bottle at $1. But what if the water is transported to the middle of a desert in which there is NO other source of water…is…

Agency Valuation with a Loss of Market

Two things are going on in the insurance marketplace. First, agencies are continuing to be bought and sold. Second, carriers are abandoning some agencies or even lines of insurance in…

Agency Valuations

How much is your agency worth? One times commission? One and a half times? Two times? During the last twelve months Agency Consulting Group has been involved in agency transactions…

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