January 1, 2006 FIM
Articles
Cover Story
Financial & Insurance Planner Survey from 2005
Incentive Spend And Salaries Ticked Up...
Editors Note
The Buzz About Branding
BRANDING HAS BECOME one of the buzzwords of modern marketing, and for good reason. A brand is much more than a name: It's an identity that reflects the...
Feedback : Letters To The editor
Letters to the Editor
Thanks for the Memories Dear Editor: I would like to commend you for your November/December 40th anniversary edition. A lot of research and interviewing...
Rules & Regs
Rules and Regs Update
Our 2005 reader survey (see page 26), asked respondents to weigh in on their corporate mandates for regulatory compliance. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance topped...
Meeting Management
Deloitte & Touche Realigns Meeting Department
MARGARET MOYNIHAN, director of strategic meetings and projects for the Global Conference Group of Deloitte & Touche, based in Wilton, Conn., has learned...
Convening in Cancun, Post-Wilma
Despite the havoc created by the incredibly destructive hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, meeting planners continue to look at hurricane-prone areas...
Planners Scale Back Site Inspections
During a breakout session at the Hyatt Insurance & Financial Roundtable, held in September at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio,...
Evaluation Forms: Increase Your Response Rates
WE HAVE ALL struggled with getting attendees to complete and return their evaluation forms. To have the most statistically valid results, it is always...
Incentives & Motivation
Incentives on the Rise
THE USE OF INCENTIVE programs across all levels of companies is on the rise, according to proprietary research by Promo magazine, sister publication of...
Pick Your Dream
Who knew that the experience of a lifetime would come in a slick silver box with a portable camera (with a silver finish, of course) to capture the memories?...
Reports From The Field
Bermuda Rendezvous
THE LURE OF azure waters and a genteel British influence were enough to coax this relaxation-deprived New Yorker to join a group of FICP (formerly ICPA)...
Planner Confab at the Beverly Hilton
SIX FINANCIAL AND insurance meeting planners came together in early December at the Beverly Hilton hotel (www.beverlyhilton.com), in Beverly Hills, Calif....
FICP Newsletter
Time for Renewal
If you are a current member, we encourage you to renew your membership for 2006. While renewing your membership on the Web site (www.ficpnet.com), please...
Message from Lynne Schueler, VP, Membership
We are back from the 2005 ICPA Annual Meeting in New York City at the amazing New York Marriott Marquis and what an outstanding meeting! We celebrated...
Association News
In other annual meeting news, FICP President Michael Burke, CMP, The Hanover Insurance Group, announced the association's new name: Financial and Insurance...
FICP Thanks Annual Meeting Sponsors
A huge thank you to all of our wonderful annual meeting sponsors. For a complete list, and links to their Web sites, go to www.ficpnet.com. Super Platinum:...
Sites & Venues
In a New York Minute
WHEN I WALKED into my room at the Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park, in early November, I thought I might never leave. It wasn't the ultra-comfy bed...
2005 Annual Meeting Raises the Bar
FICP celebrated its last annual meeting as ICPA by returning to New York, the site of its very first meeting 48 years ago. The meeting has grown not only...
GAMING PROPERTIES
ON DECEMBER 1, Sandia Resort & Casino opened a greatly expanded facility 10 minutes north of Albuquerque, N.M.'s, international airport. A new hotel has...
Dazzling Debuts on and off the Vegas Strip
OF SPECIAL INTEREST to planners right now are the spectacular new meeting facilities at two top resorts, one a sumptuous newcomer lording it over the...
Financial & Insurance Meetings 2006 Premium Circle Awards
For the 15th year, our readers have selected their favorite hotels and resorts. This month we honor the 30 top properties with our Premium Circle Award, acknowledging their excellence as meeting venues....
Georgia & the Carolinas
WHAT'S NEW With a splash of press coverage across the country, Atlanta unveiled its new aquarium in November, and in Charleston, S.C., dust is flying...
Last Laugh
Start Spreading the News
IF YOU MISSED the 2005 ICPA convention in New York City, you missed one heck of a good time. Here's what I remember. SUNDAY Arriving at LaGuardia airport,...
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