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Episode 165 – The Rapidly Changing Product Landscape with Scott Hawkins

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The Power Your Advice podcast welcomes Scott Hawkins, the Head of Insurance Research at Conning. Conning serves as a leading investment management firm, supporting institutional investors including insurers and pension plans with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research.

Doug and Scott discuss the research themes Conning and its Insurance Research department are following, while also examining the rapidly changing product landscape and how consumers can stay consistently educated.

They also discussed:

  • The value-added differentiator Conning provides in insurance research
  • The restructuring of annuities, an area Hawkin’s team has been following for over a decade
  • The passage of SECURE Act 2.0
  • What the continued rising of interest rates has created for the annuity industry from the insurance side
  • How AI will affect the insurance industry
  • The opportunity in front of advisors in terms of retirement decumulation and protected products
  • Whether Hawkins is bullish on the industry’s ability to help consumers be successful given all the current variables

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