MassMutual

Hey, one of our major office buildings is now going to become apartments.

Yeah, the old Mass Mutual.

Well, yeah, that's been empty for a while.

It's going to be apartments, and they're going to put townhouses in the back in the parking lot area.

i'll believe it when i see it

they're already they're already got approved for their first phase yeah they got a few uh approved for the first phase

yeah which is just the the mass mutual building

uh mass mutual building in like 10 houses 10 townhouses

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It's a whole new ball game.

I guess just back from Cancun, Peyton Tolley is now the MVP of reporters covering the World Series.

So the concerts and events that you see at Symphony Hall are also MGM.

So between Symphony Hall and MassMutual and how our building was constructed to have people walk down to Wahlburgers, we do pour people out onto the street in the various venues that we support.

is clarivest going to take over that um oversight when mgm if mgm leaves because like like you mentioned like part of this agreement was bringing some entertainment downtown and there have been like bigger concerts at mass mutual center than i think like springfield has really seen and some of those connections but when when and if mgm leaves Who's going to be programming that in their stead?

They will.

Our obligation at Symphony Hall expired several years ago, and we've continued to do it voluntarily, even though under the community agreement, our contractual obligation had ceased after five years.

So we're on year three of just doing it extra and helping out the city.

Same thing with MassMutual.

We voluntarily extended our obligation an extra year because COVID shut down for a year.

One thing that it's important to know that Rick and I are both part of a network through an office called Bay State Financial out of Boston, not very far from where Eric had his origin there.

So their office, it's an office of MassMutual, and they have office locations from Maine all the way down to New Jersey.

Rick and I just so happen to work out of the Connecticut agency.

However...

So when in doubt, I can always go to their list, go to a state, and I can find an ACTEC member.

I don't know them, but I know they've been vetted.

a very serious group of academic practitioners who don't take just slouches i think they're only 500 in the country at any given time so it's same with actc so it's serious but this is an opportunity for you to help the client and also again build your network now you have somebody who probably has clients that need returns or want to start a business or whatever and can refer work back if we have a little bit of time I'd like to get into some of the specifics, like the idea of getting long-term care without buying long-term care, right? By the way, I don't know who came up with this at MassMutual, but they're a genius.

Because the problem with the long-term care, for folks listening, I don't know if you've ever tried this or been on the other end of it, to sell someone long-term care, it was very expensive.

And the reason it's so good is this is just one example.

This is MassMutual's general investment account, but they all look the same.

The favorite investment of the major mutuals is long-term corporate bonds, which sounds like a paradox.

I just told you bonds are kind of in trouble moving forward relative to where they've been.

So let me show you even more.

What we have here is six insurance companies.

We have Emeritus, MassMutual, Guardian, New York Life, Penn, and One America.

So a lot of numbers on your screen, but to bore all the details, unless you want to hit pause and look at all the numbers, I'm going to zoom or scroll down to a specific chart that is only looking at the cash value for each of these policies what we're going to see which we see quite often across the insurance industry is that right now in this space we have guardian usually has the highest first year cash value another carrier which is not displayed here lafayette life usually has the highest a second highest first year cash value but when it comes to long-term performance that's a different story across the board so first of all that's a pretty big difference So even from emeritus to emeritus, it's almost $200,000.