30 Under 30, Part 1: Young Life, Health and Annuity Stars
July 25, 2017 by Kristen Beckman and Allison Bell
Here’s a three-part list to make you think: the ThinkAdvisor Life Health 30 Under 30 award winners for 2017.
This is a look at young life, health and benefits professionals who have already started to make a mark.
We collected nominations in January and have been reviewing and processing the entries ever since.
Click HERE to view the original story via ThinkAdvisor.
One startling fact about these young financial services professionals: They are all millennials, but, depending on what definition of the term “millennial” we use, this could be one of the last such lists we compile in which all of the people who make the final cut are millennials. Some say that the millennial generation ran from 1977 to 1995. Some say the youngest millennials were born in 2000. Either way: Some of the youngest people working in U.S. insurance company and insurance agency offices today are members of the post-millennial generation. The bright-eyed kid in your own office who goes out to get the bagels may really be a member of the iGeneration.
The millennials in this year’s class of 30 Under 30 professionals are a formidable bunch:
- They have seen rapid change in their personal lives. In the course of a few years, they went from rewinding videotapes to watch their favorite cartoons to watching their shows online.
- They are tough. They have done well in spite of starting their careers in a time when health insurance faces endless turmoil in Congress, the U.S. Department of Labor has applied new rules to annuity sellers, and low interest rates are making it difficult for insurers to write interest-sensitive products. Between the time we started this year’s nomination process and today, the wake from those forces led to changes in our own application processing procedures and winner publication strategy.
- They, and the companies they are affiliated with, work harder than the rest at identifying opportunities. They tweet. They have up-to-date LinkedIn pages. They, or someone who’s looking out for them, noticed our 30 Under 30 call for entries. They seem to be better than average at noticing all sorts of things.
- They think. They had to fill out extensive questionnaires to participate in this year’s 30 Under 30 search. Their answers paint an impressive picture of how the financial services market might change over the next few decades.
For a look at the first 10 people on the 2017 list, read on. We’ll publish the second batch of 10 honorees July 31, and the third Aug. 7.
Note that we’ve based these entries on information provided by the nominators, the nominees, the nominees’ LinkedIn entries, and the nominees’ employers’ websites. The ages, job titles and other biographical bits reflect how things were when the nominators submitted their nomination forms.
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