Agents Market Source is a great way to stay one step ahead of the competition, keep abreast of new products and learn about industry trends. As a Burns & Wilcox partner, we're making this exclusive advertising opportunity in Agents Market Source available to you.

For an advertising kit or more information, contact Ron Rotole at Burns & Wilcox,
1-800-521-1918 ext. 6009 or e-mail rlrotole@burns-wilcox.com

Agents Market Source has brought you news from Burns & Wilcox for more than 10 years, including commentary by our president & CEO, regional news and articles from various industry sources. It served a simple purpose, getting the word out about what is happening within the Burns & Wilcox network. Today, Agents Market Source stands on the brink of a major change.

Since its inception more than 30 years ago as a subsidiary of the H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, Inc., Burns & Wilcox has cultivated the ability to provide practical, reliable coverage for unusual, high-risk, or complex exposures, allowing those retail agents within their national network to operate more efficiently and more productively, while providing customers with the best service possible in the industry.

Burns & Wilcox, North America's largest independently owned insurance wholesaler exclusively dedicated to retail agents has used Agents Market Source as a means of communicating with carriers, underwriters and agents within their network. Agents in need of specialty coverage's turn to Burns & Wilcox and Agents Market Source every day when in need of policies covering bars and taverns, restaurants, aircraft products, charter buses, architects and engineers, contractors, and much more.

- PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS -
Through an association with The National Underwriter Company, Burns & Wilcox has committed to further developing Agents Market Source from a simple company newsletter into a true tool of success for its insurance providers across the Country.

The National Underwriter Company is the insurance industry's leading information resource and has been for over 100 years. Publisher of National Underwriter - Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management Edition, National Underwriter - Life & Health/Financial Services Edition, Claims Magazine, Technology Decisions, Florida Underwriter and a broad array of print, e-media and software products, The National Underwriter Company is strategically positioned to advance the marketing and operations efforts of agencies, carriers, and risk management departments within the Burns & Wilcox network.

- EDITORIAL PROFILE -
In cooperation with The National Underwriter Company, the next issue of Agents Market Source continues as a newly redesigned publication, some of our new features include:

• Expanded editorial coverage, including quality content from National Underwriter - Property & Casualty Edition's editors
  
• Regional market reports highlighting events happening within the industry and the Burns & wilcox network
  
• Articles written and researched by the industry's foremost experts
  
• Product news and information about the latest trends and how they may apply to your business
  
• Reader feedback

This new alliance combines the strengths of the National Underwriter Company and Burns & Wilcox to create a publication better suited to serve the specialty agent market. Through the new format of Agents Market Source, Burns & Wilcox is extending the benefits of this relationship to our agents and to you - our carrier partners. And, keep in mind, Agents Market Source is available to all Burns & Wilcox customers at no charge - it's just another benefit of being a Burns & Wilcox customer.

- CREATING A BOLD, NEW PUBLICATION -
Agents Market Source now sports an entirely new look and format. You can still look forward to a comprehensive Regional News section, but now it comes supplemented by quality editorial from the editors of The National Underwriter Company's many prestigious publications. The overall industry expense and publishing knowledge of National Underwriters editors can only help to enhance Agents Market Source even further. Some of our design and format features include:

• Glossy magazine format
  
• Utilizing 4-color printing throughout the publication
  
• Printing exterior pages on 100lb. high quality gloss cover
  
• Printing interior pages on 45lb. gloss paper
  
• Saddle-stitching for easier reading and greater durability

- EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ADVERTISING -
As an added bonus of our redesign, you can now advertise in Agents Market Source. We're giving you the ability to reach independent agents across the United States who are looking to partner with professional managing general agents. Our improved look, easy-to-read format, and quality editorial content encourage producers to spend more time with Agents Market Source, thereby increasing the readership of your advertising.

Advertising space in the new Agents Market Source is not being offered to everyone. Only those companies within the nationwide Burns & Wilcox network can take advantage of this new and exciting opportunity.

- REACHING YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE -
The redesign and reformat of Agents Market Source aren't the only positive changes in the works - our existing audience is almost doubling. With an advertisement in Agents Market Source, you reach the entire nationwide market of independent retail agents Burns & Wilcox had cultivated since 1969. We're delivering the prospects your company is targeting.

• Overall distribution of 45,000
  
• We are reaching over 35,000 independent agents directly
  
• 6,000 copies are being distributed through Burns & Wilcox branch offices
  
• 4,000 additional copies are distributed through industry conventions