Alison Rand
Analyst · Raymond James and Associates. Go ahead
Yeah. Let me give you some of the numbers in the background, so, you kind of understand how that 2,600 fits in. In the U.S., we have 16,900 mutual fund licensed reps of which that 2,600 you add to that number, okay. I’m sorry, that number is a subset of the 69. So, about 15% of our total U.S. sales force for securities is Series 65 or maybe [indiscernible] fit, because in some stage, that require Series 65 license. So, we call them fit. And so, it’s a pretty significant part of our U.S. sales force, that means our Canadian sales force is about 5,700 that has to mutual fund license. So, that’s the breakdown, which might be helpful for you in understanding that. That 15% as I said is, they’re a significant players, they provide about 40% of our total U.S. sales. So, to go directly to your question, as I said earlier, we entered that business as an offensive strategy to capture a piece of our market that we were not in and we believe we’ve been successful at it. But it’s also helped us understand both that market a little better but more importantly to your question the licensing process a little better. And so there is clearly more room to get more of our people Series 65 license for managed accounts fit just, by the general nature of our ongoing business to maximize that opportunity but also as a defensive strategy as you indicate that’s one of the levers we could pull. And I think that will be something that’s consistent with our overall business strategy, so it’s not an outlier at all. I think the challenge with that is really – I think bigger for the consumer than it is Primerica because that is a business with a fairly high minimum account size 25,000 even some of the most aggressive companies down to 10,000 maybe or even five, but there is no room for the middle income client, the main street client who’s got $50 a month to invest. So while we’re viewing that as a potential lever that we could pull to change our business and adjust into the rule, at the same time our commentary to the DOL is going to include how it disaffects the middle income marketplace. And the DOL has stated again as I said there was a disconnect between what they said in the specifics of the rule but we believe here in the coming period we can move those two closer together. That’s our attempt. And so there’s a consumer message here as well. So I think, that’s one of the levers, I don’t think that’s the only thing that we could if absolutely nothing changed to rule as it is today, but it’s clearly one of the plays that we’ll call as needed.