Alaskan Bank Hires Marketer for Annuities

National Bank of Alaska has selected an investment marketing firm to help it launch a fixed annuity sales effort.

The Anchorage-based bank, with $2.5 billion of assets, has signed on with the Laughlin Group of Companies, Beaverton, Ore.

Laughlin will provide the bank with annuities underwritten by Lincoln National Life Insurance, Fort Wayne, Ind. The marketing firm will provide training and marketing support to help the bank's brokers market the annuities through its 50-branch network.

Loughlin provides investment products and services to more than 150 financial institutions nationwide.

The firm offers complete turnkey services for the sale of fixed annuities, and it delivers variable annuities, mutual funds, and individual stocks and bond through Laughlin Group Advisors Inc., a registered broker- dealer.

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