ANNUITIES
Luma Financial Technologies, Insurance Technologies | February 24, 2021
Luma Financial Technologies ("Luma"), a free, multi-issuer structured products and annuities platform, reported today that they have chosen Insurance Technologies, LLC, supplier of FireLight®, a multi-transporter start to finish insurance and retirement deals platform, as its most recent accomplice to bring their annuities solution, "Luma Annuities," to market.
The Luma platform, which is sponsored by three of the world's biggest banks, was worked to improve on the structured item venture measure. After solidly setting up itself as the worldwide fintech market leader in the structured products space, Luma is currently presenting an unequaled annuities solution that gives improved customer worth and helps consultants in battling their customers retirement saving difficulties, which are being driven by increasing market unpredictability and a low interest rate climate.
Luma Annuities is a turn-key annuity deals and lifecycle management solution that straightforwardly addresses the greatest difficulties confronting counselors selling annuities today. The solution works on all parts of getting the hang of, executing, arranging, and overseeing annuities for venture firms and guides, allowing them to unquestionably offer their customers a more extensive scope of income-generating products.
“Our mission has always been to simplify product complexities and give advisors smart solutions that they can believe in,” said Jay Charles, Director of Annuities at Luma Financial Technologies. “By partnering with Insurance Technologies and leveraging the FireLight platform’s embedded API capabilities, we bring a seamless order entry experience to financial professionals around the world. It is through our scale that we’re able to provide advisors with this unmatched experience, allowing them to offer their clients a wider-range of solutions to potentially put them on a path to a more secure retirement.”
The new solution offers best in class innovation modules that are worked by guides, for counselors. It was intended to offer top tier instructive substance just as highlight broad information across a merchant seller's whole annuity item rack so guides can look at rates, riders, and item includes. Additionally included are prescient investigation and transporter delineation includes that enable consultants to introduce the best, most secure item solutions to their customers. Independently, the solution additionally allows guides to track and screen the presentation of the products they sold through the Luma platform, just as products in their past book of business.
By inserting the Insurance Technologies FireLight solution inside the Luma platform, clients get a durable deals insight, allowing them to oversee products and rules in one incorporated area.
Since 1995, Insurance Technologies has been altering the insurance and financial services industry to enable financial experts and counsels to all the more likely serve their customers. Their solutions have for some time been executed inside industry-driving insurance transporters and wholesaler firms.
“We’re extremely excited to partner with a company that is adding tremendous value to the annuity category at a time when Americans need guaranteed income options more than ever,” said Doug Massey, EVP of Sales and Relationship Management, Insurance Technologies. “The ability for Luma to utilize the FireLight sales platform to access e-application and illustration data demonstrates the power of FireLight to allow carriers to build product rules once and re-use anywhere, seamlessly offering products in various user interfaces and effective solutions such as Luma Annuities. The transparency, efficiency, objectivity, and easy-to-manage tools that Luma provides financial professionals are simply powerful. We look forward to working with them to enhance the annuity investment experience provided to their customers.”
About Luma Financial Technologies
Luma Financial Technologies is the creator of Luma, a fully customizable, independent, buy-side platform that helps financial teams more efficiently learn, create, order and manage market-linked investments such as structured products, structured annuities and more. Launched in 2011, Luma is one of the largest and longest-tenured structured product platforms in the U.S. market and is used by broker/dealer firms, RIA offices and private banks to automate and optimize the full process cycle for offering and transacting in market-linked investments. This includes education and certification; creation and pricing of custom structures; order entry; and post-trade actions. Luma is multi-issuer, multi-wholesaler and multi-product, thus providing teams with an extensive breadth of market-linked investments to best meet clients’ specific portfolio needs.
About Insurance Technologies
Insurance Technologies provides innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industries. Offering a suite of integrated sales solutions, from pre-sale functions to quoting and illustrations through e-application and e-delivery to post-sale services, Insurance Technologies provides carriers and distributors the sales capabilities and tools to create automated and cohesive sales experiences for their advisors and clients across all lines of insurance, retirement and investment products. The unique architecture and flexibility of its solutions deliver front and back-office configurability and usability to support multiple business strategies, encourage cross-channel growth and evolve with regulatory changes.
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INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
Carrot General Insurance Corp. | December 27, 2021
Carrot General Insurance Corp. ("Carrot" or the "Company"), one of the fastest-growing South Korean InsurTech announced today that the company recently surpassed 400,000 written contracts for its pay-per-mile auto insurance program. The news follows the announcement made 11 months ago that it had made 100,000 registrations back in January.
"What's remarkable when you consider our accrued number of written policies is that Carrot has been commercially in operation of per-mile auto insurance service for less than two years." he continued, "this milestone validates aspects of customer value that we offer and we will continue to introduce innovative products that are fueled with technology as we move forward."
-Paul Jung, CEO of Carrot
The company says that it has been receiving significant interest from potential investors in wanting to assess the appetite for Carrot's future growth potentials. Carrot's top tier customer retention rate, fast growing revenue and market share, and normalizing loss-ratio may be deemed positive factors to support investments in the company. In terms of the growth in business presence and expansion of its targeted total addressable market, Carrot is eyeing a possible acquisition and South East Asia is one of the geographies under consideration.
"We are well placed to pursue both organic and inorganic growth opportunities. Our digital lines of products, extensive technology development, strong relationships with partners and major distributors, and the supportive market backdrop will enable us to continue to play a key role in driving the evolution of insurance,"
-Paul Jung, CEO of Carrot
He also noted that the company is strengthening an open innovation strategy through active collaborations with external partners to further broaden its service offerings, as well as achieve technology advancements. Accordingly, the company is close to signing a JV agreement whereby it will focus its efforts on advancing Carrot's IoT (internet of things) technologies, expanding its applications while ensuring a sustainable supply of devices. Lately, the company also announced that it has formed a JV with other general insurance peers to offer tech-based claims management services to its customers while realizing efficiencies through process automation.
Considering Carrot's incredible track record and its ambitious future plans, keeping an eye on the company's upcoming executions may be well worth the effort.
About Carrot General Insurance Corp.
Based in Seoul, South Korea, Carrot was formed in 2019 as a JV with some of the big-name investors, including Hanwha, SK Telecom, Hyundai Motor Group, Altos Ventures, Stic Investments. Since its inception, Carrot has been establishing itself as a disruptor and has outpaced its global peers in terms of the speed of acquiring new customers for its pay-per-mile auto insurance. The company's successful footprint owes itself to strong customer value propositions, such as easy and accessible insurance, transparent premiums, AI automated accident registration and help dispatch service and etc. The company is also pursuing business in Pay-As-How-You-Drive auto insurance, which assesses the premiums as per customer's driving patterns through utilization of proprietary telematics technology. In line with the company's open innovation strategy, Carrot has 100+ national & international partnerships, including South Korean government unit.
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State Farm | July 07, 2020
The Louisiana Insurance Commission has approved a 9.6% permanent rate decrease in auto insurance policies for all State Farm Insurance policyholders in the state, commissioner Jim Donelon announced on Monday. This marks the fourth occasion State Farm has reduced rates in recent times. In 2018, the insurer slashed 4.5% off auto insurance rates, followed by a 6.5% cut in 2019 and a 2.3% reduction last March. The company has decreased rates by a total of 23% in the last two years.
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