2020 Advanced Sales Virtual Forum - Sponsors and Exhibitors

Ashar Group is an independent 3rd party resource that supports financial professionals and fiduciaries. We appraise life insurance assets for fair market value (FMV) and provide a formal, marketbased valuation that provides an essential FMV data point for planning decisions and risk mitigation. If the life settlement option is chosen as the planning solution, Ashar is a nationally licensed Life Settlement Brokerage with fiduciary responsibility to the client to create a competitive bidding environment and negotiate the best offer possible. Our national accounts include major life insurance carriers, broker dealers, BGAs, IMOs, national banks, and trust companies. We are a resource for more than 30,000 planners, attorneys, trust officers, and CPAs nationwide for risk management and insurance planning; philanthropic planning; retirement planning; and estate, gift, and wealth transfer planning. Visit us at www.ashargroup.com

Ashar Group is an independent 3rd party resource that supports financial professionals and fiduciaries. We appraise life insurance assets for fair market value (FMV) and provide a formal, marketbased valuation that provides an essential FMV data point for planning decisions and risk mitigation. If the life settlement option is chosen as the planning solution, Ashar is a nationally licensed Life Settlement Brokerage with fiduciary responsibility to the client to create a competitive bidding environment and negotiate the best offer possible. Our national accounts include major life insurance carriers, broker dealers, BGAs, IMOs, national banks, and trust companies. We are a resource for more than 30,000 planners, attorneys, trust officers, and CPAs nationwide for risk management and insurance planning; philanthropic planning; retirement planning; and estate, gift, and wealth transfer planning. Visit us at www.ashargroup.com

Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $40 billion in assets headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an executive office in Denver, Colorado. The Bank has 69 full-service branches located in California, with one branch located in Durham, North Carolina, and one branch located in Denver, Colorado. We offer national lending products including asset-based, equipment, and real estate loans and treasury management services to established middle-market businesses. To learn more about Pacific Western Bank, visit www.pacwest.com.

Pentera Group, Inc. is pleased to offer the Advanced Markets Resource Center (AMRC) —an intuitive, user-friendly suite of tools that home offices can provide to distribution channels and producers. This suite provides everything necessary to prepare cases, answer questions, solve problems, motivate prospects and clients, and make sales. The AMRC includes industry favorites such as a comprehensive reference source (Advanced Markets Online), learning modules (Business Insurance Online, Retirement Planning at Any Age, Estate Planning for Small Business Owners, Intro to Estate Planning and Charitable Giving), calculators (AMO Calculators), and collateral sales support (AMO Salesmaker, ePocket Tax Tables, AMO One-Pagers, the Annuity Playbook, the Personal Markets Playbook, AMO Case Studies, AMO Documents, AMO Conversation Starters). Material covers the areas of estate planning, business insurance, retirement planning, and charitable giving, with a special mini-suite of materials on Business Succession Planning. For over 45 years, Pentera’s skilled, in-house staff of attorneys, writers, graphic designers, and user interface technicians has leveraged its content creation and technology expertise to develop custom content and tools designed to present, position, and brand proprietary products and concepts for home office distribution channels. Visit us at www.pgiresources.com for examples and additional information.