A leading Agent, a member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), who wants to remain anonymous, wrote this article. He has been a fan and well-wisher of Premium magazine since its inception. He visited the Premium stall at the MDRT Days conference in Mumbai on January 15 and 16, 2011 where Premium was the Exclusive Media Partner. He sent us this article on his return from the conference.

They came, listened and were recharged! About a thousand delegates who attended the MDRT Day Convention, held by MDRT India Organising Committee, at Mumbai on January 15 and 16 went back ready to take on the world! A photo feature!

A housewife turns insurance agent in her 50s and makes it to MDRT through sheer persistence. Read Mrs G Kanakaratnam’s story in this month’s Role Model section by K Nitya Kalyani.

“Success is what keeps me going”, says Mr M Rajavardhan Reddy who has been attending the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) annual meet for the past 12 years continuously as an agent of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) at Hyderabad. Apart from his insurance selling business, Mr Reddy is also active in the MDRT organisation in India and has been recently reappointed to the post of Area Chair, Andhra Pradesh.

Achieving the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) qualification, and its advanced credentials like Court of the Table (COT) and Top of the Table (TOT) gives an immense sense of satisfaction personally and professionally says Mumbai-based Mr K Ravi Kumar, Agent, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), who has been qualifying for and attending the meets since 2004. Mr Ravi Kumar is also Local Chair Mumbai, Membership Coordination Committee, MDRT.

He was in the armed forces, took up insurance agency without a clue about insurance and is riding high. Wing Commander Dinesh Kumar Bhardwaj based at Gurgaon represents the two Tata AIG insurance companies, flying the world as a high achiever in the new career he discovered in his late fifties and trying to din the importance of insurance protection into the heads of his erstwhile defence forces colleagues!

Mr Praful Shah is an quintessential old world father and son insurance agents of the type you find in Mumbai, serving fathers and sons and son’s sons with the confidence that they know what the client needs so well that the relationship grows from generation to generation. Because Mr Praful Shah’s father started in this profession, and his son is now successfully helping him.

MDRT’s ToT Annual Meeting Being a member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) is a badge of achievement. Over and above that is being a Top of the Table member of this US based association of the top financial services professionals. After all, the 2010 ToT qualification was Rs 45.55 lakh in commission or [...]

Insurance in an Island Amid the lush green of the jungle, abright red Maruti Swift flashes by emblazoned with graphics advertising popular Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) schemes like ‘Bima Gold.’ On a holiday to the Andaman and Nicobar islands, I was in one of the white Tata Sumos, that was part of a [...]

Agent to Advisor The Initial Spark K Nitya Kalyani In every professional’s life there is a moment of awakening when the realisation hits home that there is much more that he can achieve, if only. If only he were better equipped with knowledge, better organised, better informed and better skilled. The response to that inner [...]