At Empire Life we continue to monitor developments around the COVID-19 virus and its impact on the health of our employees and our distribution partners.
As concerns grow and circumstances change seemingly hourly, there have been a number of questions internally and externally about our business travel and ability to conduct face to face interactions with you, our partners. We have encouraged our employees to minimize non-essential business travel. We’ve seen and heard of similar tactics from many of our partners. For us in Distribution, that means we will be deploying technology to continue to provide the level of service and interaction you’ve come to expect from us. We’ve encouraged our Account Executives to seek opportunities for virtual meetings rather than face to face, more frequent phone calls and ongoing communication from our internal partners. We’re also reducing our employee participation in large group events.
We remain open for business and, in fact, we’re ratcheting up our activity to ensure your questions and concerns are addressed during these times of uncertainty. To that point, here are details to a conference call featuring our Chief Investment Officer, Ian Hardacre and a number of our portfolio managers this Friday.
To wrap up, we’re here for you. Please contact me or any of the members of our
leadership team if you have questions or concerns.
I wish the best of health to you and your families. See you again soon.
Paul
Paul Holba, CFA
Vice President, Retail Distribution
Empire Life