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	<title>The Gamut &#187; agents</title>
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		<title>Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/09/02/come-out-come-out-wherever-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the retained asset account situation – and I can’t imagine many readers of this blog who have not – then you’ll know that Prudential is at the heart of it. Not that Prudential is necessarily doing anything wrong, but the Bloomberg article that touched this whole issue off did so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endings&#8230;and Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/08/30/endings-and-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is not based on a news item, but on a personal experience I had over the weekend. I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me.
Last week, my dad&#8217;s wife&#8217;s father got up in the middle of the night, either to go to the bathroom or to get some food or something, and he slipped and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annuity sales are back! Or are they?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second quarter annuity sales in the U.S. have hit record highs, according to a report issued earlier this week by the Insured Retirement Institute, the annuity industry’s main trade group.
The report, which blends data from both Morningstar and Beacon Research, notes that 2Q 2010 annuity sales increased 13.5% from last quarter, from $47.4 billion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying On Message</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/03/staying-on-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that not only are we drawing close to the end of another year, but also closing in on the end of the first decade of the Third Millennium. 
(I already expect to hear from pedants and calendar officials informing me that in strict terms a decade goes from a year beginning with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge For A Day</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/11/judge-for-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I had the privilege of being a judge in the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education&#8217;s RealLIFEstories program. (To call it a ‘contest&#8217; makes it seem a little too tawdry, although there is a definite competitive element involved.)
There a few things that bring you so close to the noble calling that so [...]]]></description>
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