Financial/Insurance Meetings

No matter whether they are volunteer or contracted, your event staffers are the key to having guests experience the meeting just as you envisioned it.

The Convention Industry Council will celebrate leaders and emerging leaders in the meetings and events industry October 18, when it hands out the annual Hall of Leaders and Pacesetter Awards. The cocktail reception and ceremony...

The Department of Labor recently issued a ruling that requires financial advisers who sell retirement products to act in their clients’ best interest (that is, as fiduciaries) when offering investment advice, disclose any conflicts of...

David Riederman, global sales director at Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, who handles the financial and insurance market for the company, recently won Hyatt’s 2015 Global Sales Leadership Director of the Year Award. The award was presented at Hyatt’s ann...

Katie Senkowski, CMP, manager, meetings and events, at AIG, needed to settle on a short list of hotels for an important upcoming event in Chicago. Her team was headed to the Windy City to do final site visits, but Senkowski needed to be on site w...

Katie Senkowski, CMP, manager, meetings and events, at AIG, needed to settle on a short list of hotels for an important upcoming event in Chicago. Her team was headed to the Windy City to do final site visits, but Senkowski needed to be on site w...

It’s time for the meetings industry to move from awareness to action in the global fight against human trafficking, says SITE, the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence, which last month held a joint webinar on the topic with ECPAT-USA...

Two regular data dumps reveal the current contrasting fortunes of domestic business travel and meetings...