Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Ellen Lindner A captive agent is an insurance professional who exclusively ...

If you're a captive agent and you've been thinking about going independent, you're not alone. Many agents in the business with moderate success often get that itch for more control, better commissions ...

The new Department of Labor fiduciary proposal is nearly 500 pages and has a lot of details. But the biggest fight is going to come down to how agents are regulated – and that goes for both ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bobby L. Hickman is a longtime business and financial journalist who brings decades of ...

Life insurance agents who are limited to selling proprietary products may find it difficult to meet a fiduciary standard as it is being defined by a task force helmed by a fiduciary advocate. The ...

Insurers, whose efforts to enter banking had been spotty at best, showed real signs of progress last year -- with the biggest successes coming from companies that used a captive sales force. State ...

Nationwide’s plan to cut loose 2,000 captive agents means the mutual will be selling its annuities through independents along with other institutional channels. Nationwide said this week it plans to ...

PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the difference between an independent insurance agent and a captive insurance agent, and which is better for Florida residents? A HelloNation ...

We’ve all seen the wealth management industry barrel toward independence in recent years as more and more wirehouse advisors lose patience for conflicts of interest, reject constraints on product ...

The question of whether captive agents are independent contractors or employees of an insurance company is at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed against several GEICO companies. The suit ...