Insurance Professionals

At Risk & Insurance Associates, we believe the following are key to ensuring successful planning outcomes:

Risk management as an essential component of comprehensive financial advice, and properly assessing and addressing risks;
Alignment with your practice and approach, directing our platform and resources nimbly;
Simplifying your process through our set of contemporary technology and tools.

Insurance Professionals dedicate their careers to identifying, quantifying, and devising solutions to the risks their clients face. When those risks can be addressed with insurance solutions, the ability to curate the correct carriers and products and navigate the complexities of underwriting are of paramount concern.

Our design expertise, carrier selection, and underwriting proficiency allow us to complement and enhance your role as risk manager. Likewise, our platform allows you to operate efficiently in all phases of the insurance procurement process, from quoting to delivery, and every step in between.

Case Design

We take great pride in developing and curating solutions for advisors and clients that are driven by the client’s goals and concerns and informed by empirical planning data and analysis. We maintain a firm grasp on the current state of the product landscape, understand the intricacies of policy design and carrier differentiation, and always rely on our financial planning foundation to put that knowledge to work for the benefit of the client. Our designs are always approached with a client-centric mentality, agnostic as to product and carrier – we want to best solution for each client engagement, period.
Technology Platform

Our platform provides virtual scale to your practice, harnessing technology-forward solutions to streamline everything from quoting, electronic applications, on-demand case status, e-delivery, and more. As carriers further integrate technological advances into their workflows, we respond by incorporating them into our programs, further improving and modernizing the client experience continually providing you virtual scale.

Inforce Coverage Reviews

Many (even most) clients will have coverages they have accumulated over time with you or other advisors, through their employer, or organizations they are members of. Often these represent a haphazard smattering of policies that do not benefit from a global perspective on their planning utility. Further, may also included non-guaranteed elements that may or may not have performed up to expectation. Just as investment portfolios should be continuously monitored, managed, and measured against the planning objectives; so too should clients’ insurance portfolios. We offer a comprehensive insurance review process, and can assist in navigating the inforce illustration process with current carriers – providing you and your client clarity as to what they own, identify any potential issues, and provide a market perspective on this economics to detect any opportunities for achievable price efficiencies.
Advanced Markets Support

Advanced Markets is a broad term that encompasses a large host of client-specific planning realms that require specific expertise to effectively navigate. Our team brings together credentialed professionals with backgrounds in Estate Planning, Business Succession and Key Person, Executive Retention and Benefits, Split Dollar and Premium Financed Life Insurance Designs, High-Limit and complex Disability Income Insurance Situations, and many more areas outside of the typical realm of the client planning sphere. We are able to selectively deploy these resources in support of your mission to identify and execute on the planning needs of your client.

Life, Long Term Care, and Disability Income Insurance Underwriting and Procurement

Addressing the risks identified often involves the implementation of new insurance solutions. Our team is focused on delivering a streamlined, white glove experience to you and your clients during the entire procurement process, from initial presentation through policy delivery. We stand at the ready to present solutions to you and the client, “get into the weeds” when necessary, coordinate efforts with you and other professional advisors such as CPAs and Attorneys, and make the process as efficient and effective for everyone involved as possible. Oftentimes, underwriting presents challenges unique to a particular insured. Our team maintains close relationships with major carrier underwriters, keenly understanding which risks are best placed with which carriers – and we have expertise in gaining favorable outcomes for the most difficult cases to place.

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