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Be armed and ready to make appointments with all of your existing architectural clients with these two ideas. Andrew Torelli discusses how to expand your target markets by leveraging your existing market relationships in today’s BeAdvised.

The Obama administration on Monday released broad new operating rules for state-run health insurance exchanges, which form a key part of the 2010 federal health care reform law that will face landmark Supreme Court hearings in just two weeks.

House Republican leaders are looking for a way to reshape the debate over the administration's new rule on birth control insurance coverage before moving ahead with a bid to nullify the requirement.

What is your firm doing to proactively cultivate centers of influence and gain new business in the process? Florida broker Beverly Beattie shares one easy to follow idea you can incorporate into your firm’s business development strategy today.

Here's a recent roundup of industry accomplishments. Check to see if a colleague is mentioned this week.

Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 Most Admired Companies only includes one insurer, Berkshire Hathaway, at No. 7. However, the news outlet ranked insurers separately in their own categories: “Property and Casualty,” “Life and Health” and “Health Care: Insurance and Managed Care.”

The odds of being single at some point during retirement are high and present unique challenges for both “ever single” retirees who never married and for those who become “suddenly single” in retirement due to divorce or death of a spouse. In fact, 43% of Americans age 65 and older are single due to divorce, having never married, or the death of a partner.

A change in ranks within the C-suite can often make or break business and personal relationships. In today's BeAdvised, a second-generation executive at an Atlanta brokerage shares first-hand tips to help any company build the next generation of leaders.

Many small business owners are unprepared for retirement, with a third of the women and a quarter of the men in a new survey having no estimate of how much they will need when they retire.

Almost half of men and 46% of women who purchased individual critical illness insurance policies in 2011 were younger than age 45, according to a recent survey.