BAF produces its largest cohort of Million Dollar Round Table qualifiers to date

BAF Financial and Insurance Ltd. announced its largest Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) cohort to date, with 25 of its employees qualified to enter the exclusive club for 2023.

The website for the MDRT describes it as the top association for financial professionals.

It adds that the global, independent group represents the leading life insurance and financial services professionals from more than 700 companies across 80 countries and territories.

“MDRT members demonstrate exceptional professional knowledge, strict ethical conduct and outstanding client service,” the website says.

“MDRT membership is recognized internationally as the standard of excellence in the life insurance and financial services business.”

BAF Senior Vice President of Sales Dashwell Flowers told Guardian Business that this is the largest group in The Bahamas to have made it to the MDRT in a calendar year. He expressed pride that these BAF professionals were all able to qualify for 2023.

The MDRT website said it was founded in 1927 by 32 insurance producers who had each placed at least $1 million “of life insurance protection into their communities”.

For The Bahamas, the website explains that the requirement for eligibility at the highest tier (Top of the Table), professionals would have to prove that they earned $379,800 in commission, $657,600 in income, or sold $759,600 in premiums.

Listed as BAF’s MDRT candidates are Patrice Major (Top of The Table and Lifetime Member), George Pinder (Lifetime Member), Othniel Duncombe (Lifetime Member), Eric Sawyer III (Lifetime Member), Oman Forbes (Lifetime Member), Rasheda Bodie-Bowe (Lifetime Member), Loretta Dorsett-Ferguson, Tashan Smith, Lekasha Strachan, Michael Francis, Sandra Evans-Sturrup, Francheska Young, Andrea Ferguson, Deann Bain, Toinette Munnings, Karen Sands, Charnell McIntosh (First Time Qualifier), Takia Thompson (First Time Qualifier), Tino Woodside (First Time Qualifier), Shereen Pinder (First Time Qualifier), Tamika Pinder (First Time Qualifier), Jolissa Rolle (First Time Qualifier), Alvin Bullard (First Time Qualifier), Dianna Joseph (First Time Qualifier), and Hughann Tai (First Time Qualifier).