LinkedIn LIVE: Industry Insights With Bryan Hodgens — What's Ahead for Retail Life and Annuity Sales in 2025?
1/7/2025, 2 - 2:30 p.m. ET
On-Demand Webinar
Overview
Who Should Join
Anyone in life insurance, annuity, or distribution space.
Highlights
Market forces, product innovation and distribution strategies all influence the U.S. life insurance and annuity markets. Join Bryan Hodgens, senior vice president and head of LIMRA research, and John Carroll, senior vice president and head of Life & Annuities, as they discuss the factors LIMRA expects to have the greatest impact in 2025 and share LIMRA’s forecast on how the life insurance and annuity markets will perform.
Senior Vice President, Head of Research, LIMRA and LOMA
Bryan Hodgens is Senior Vice President and Head of Research for LIMRA and LOMA. In this capacity, he develops and executes the research strategy for both the distribution and retirement research programs, focused on providing insights and best practices to address the current and emerging business challenges facing LIMRA members.
Hodgens joined LIMRA in 2022 with more than 25 years of executive experience at companies such as AIG, Wells Fargo Advisors and Asset Growth Partners. Most recently, he was senior vice president and head of LPL Financials’ Retirement Plans and Financial Planning Group.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Emory University in Atlanta Georgia.
Senior Vice President and Head of Insurance and Annuities – U.S. and Canada, LIMRA and LOMA
John Carroll began his career at Merrill Lynch and over the course of 20 years held a variety of sales and marketing roles, culminating in Managing Director, Head of Distribution and Co-Head of Merrill Lynch Insurance Group. After Merrill Lynch, he joined Allianz Global Investors (AGI) where he was Chief Operating Officer for AGI Distributors (AGID), their U.S. Broker Dealer, and ultimately Head of U.S. Retail Distribution and served as the Chief Executive Officer of AGID. He joined LIMRA and LOMA from Epoch Investment Partners, an institutional asset management firm, where he was Head of Intermediary Client Relations. He holds a BA in economics and an MBA from Rutgers University.
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