Trade Associations (National Financial)

American Association of Insurance Services: The American Association of Insurance Services is a national advisory organization that produces policy forms and manuals used by more than 500 property/casualty insurance companies as the basis for the coverage they sell to consumers and businesses. AAIS is also a national statistical agent that collects data on premiums and losses from insurers for use in regulatory reporting and development of loss costs. http://www.aaisonline.com/

American Bankers Association: This trade association site provides membership information, publications, a small personal finance section, and a small consumer section. http://www.aba.com/default.htm

American Council of Life Insurers: The site of a major trade association for over 550 life insurance companies. http://www.acli.com

American Insurance Association: The site of a property/casualty trade association with over 300 members. The site includes publications, press releases, research, and links. http://www.aiadc.org/

Bank Administration Institute: This site of a banking research institute provides selected articles from Banking Strategies magazine, research findings, and membership information. http://www.bai.org/

Bond Market Association (BMA): The BMA represents securities firms and banks that underwrite, trade and sell debt securities including municipal bonds; U.S. Treasury securities; federal agency securities; mortgage and other asset-backed securities, corporate debt securities; money market instruments; and Repos. The site is a wealth of information including research papers, a valuable sent of links organized by type of bond, legislative information investor information, standard dealer agreements, and membership information. http://www.bondmarkets.com/

Credit Union Executives Society: The site of a professional trade association for credit union management that provides its members information about its programs, articles from Credit Union Management, and membership information. http://www.cues.org/pls/enetrixcues/!cues1.main

Credit Union National Association: The site of this trade association provides consumer information about credit unions, articles from Credit Union Magazine News, and membership information. http://www.cuna.org/index.html

Emergining Markets Trade Association: This is a site of a principal trade group for the Emerging Markets trading and investment. http://www.emta.org/

America's Health Insurance Plans: The site of a trade association representing firms that finance and deliver health services and others that provide insurance. The site has news, consumer information, publications, and education information. http://www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx?bc=31

The Independent Bankers of America: The site of a major commercial bank trade association representing smaller- and medium-sized commercial banks. http://www.ibaa.org/

Insurance Information Institute: The site of a non-profit association whose purpose is to provide consumers with information on insurance issues covering auto, business, homeowners, malpractice, workers compensation, fraud, and home office. Information on special risk issues such as hurricanes is also provided. http://www.iii.org

Life Communicators Association: The site of a national trade association of marketing, sales, promotion, advertising, public relations, and internal communication professionals in the life insurance industry. The site provides news, resources, networking, and a calendar of events. http://www.lcaonline.org/

Mortgage Bankers Association of America: The site of this trade association provides news, membership information using a password, consumer information, MBA survey results, and product information. http://www.mbaa.org/

National Association of Federal Credit Unions: Provides up-to-date information on legislative affairs, regulation, and news. Includes selective articles from The Federal Credit Union magazine. http://www.nafcunet.org/

National Association of Insurance Commissioners: This site provides model state laws for hundreds of insurance issues organized into 40 categories. These are sold. There is good information on Internet marketing of insurance and securities valuation. http://www.naic.org/

National Association of Mortgage Bankers: The is a site of a national trade association representing the mortgage broker industry. http://www.namb.org/

National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies: The site of a trade association for mutual property/casualty companies. The site provides information of educational programs, advocacy, and news. http://www.namic.org/index.asp

National Association of Security Dealers (NASD): The site of this organization of security dealers with data, member lists and other useful security information. http://www.nasd.com/default.asp

NASDAQ: The National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation service site provides a host of resources including market information, company data, research, reference material, quotes, and individual investor information. http://www.nasdaq.com/

Society of Actuaries: The Society of Actuaries is an educational, research, and professional organization. Its mission is to advance actuarial knowledge and to enhance the ability of actuaries to provide advice for financial, business, and societal problems involving uncertain future events. The site includes news, research results, links and career information. http://www.soa.org/ccm/content/