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SIR Virtual Annual Business Meeting & Awards

SIR's annual business meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 19, 2021. During this meeting, SIR President Mike Myers will be announcing the winners of several awards, recognizing members for their dedication, passion, and willingness to go above and beyond.

This meeting is being held in conjunction with the SIR Annual Conference! If you have not done so already, be sure to get registered for the conference. There are a lot of great speakers representing five different tracks.

SIR Spring Research Summit Write Up

Poonam Ahuja, a student from University of California, Irvine provided an excellent review of her experience at the Spring Research Summit.

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Society of Insurance Research (SIR) survey reveals 7 in 10 health and life insurance professionals believe most touchpoints will be self-service in the next five years

The study offers valuable findings on key differences between Life and Health insurance sales trends and also provides a perspective on the differences between consumer versus employer uptake of digital services. In the age of COVID-19, digital sales have increased across the board.

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SIR President Mike Myers' Interview with John Booth & Peter Grimm from Cipher.

"In this episode, John Booth—VP of Marketing at Cipher—and Peter Grimm—President of Cipher—speak to Mike Myers. Mike is the Lead Competitive Intelligence Analyst at USAA and the incoming President at the Society of Insurance Research (SIR). He has an esteemed and noteworthy background as a Lead Competitive Intelligence Analyst. You can learn more and connect with Mike Myers on LinkedIn" Read the full story here.

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Andrea Clark Shares Insights into American Financial Attitudes at SIR 2020 Annual Conference

Andrea Clark, Western & Southern AVP of experience strategy, introduced the research to attendees at the virtual Society of Insurance Research 2020 Annual Conference his month. For her conference session, she was joined by two representatives from Ipsos, a global market and opinion research company that partnered with Western & Southern on the research study.

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SIR Member Census

SIR is excited to launch our first annual member census! The member census will help us understand our members much better. It contains three sections and takes approximately 10 minutes.

- The first section will populate the member directory with your professional experiences. The second section asks for your personal demographics. Finally, the third section focuses on how you want to engage with SIR.

The SIR is a community built to serve our collective needs. We need to know more about you and your desires to successfully meet your needs. Many thanks in advance and good luck in the prize drawing!

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