Oak Street Funding to Participate in Webinar Series Hosted by PIA Western Alliance

INDIANAPOLIS, IN--(Marketwire - Mar 15, 2012) - Oak Street Funding (www.oakstreetfunding.com), the nation's leading commission-based lender for insurance professionals, announced today it is speaking on a joint webinar series with the Professional Insurance Agents Western Alliance. The webinar series includes five educational sessions beginning Thursday, March 29 at 10:00 AM PST. Webinars will focus on business development strategies, relationship strategies and how to recruit and retain talented people.

For a complete listing or to register, please visit http://bit.ly/xfWMwK. Members of the PIA Western Alliance are able to register at a discounted fee.

"Agents are hungry for education on business and relationship strategies in order to grow their businesses," said Carissa Newton, director of marketing at Oak Street Funding. "We will educate agents on how to leverage existing relationships and develop new marketing strategies." Newton, along with Sarah Turner, director of corporate development at Oak Street Funding, will be the series speakers.

Rick Dennen, CEO and president of Oak Street Funding, along with Newton also will lead a CE course titled, "Buy, Build, Sell: What you need to know in every phase of your agency's evolution," at the PIA OR/ID Conference in Welches, Oregon on May 20-22, 2012.

On a monthly basis, Oak Street Funding hosts complimentary educational webinars focused on industry best practices. For a complete listing of Oak Street Funding's webinars, visit www.oakstreetfunding.com/AboutUs/Events.aspx.

To learn more about Oak Street Funding, visit www.oakstreetfunding.com. To learn more about the PIA Western Alliance, visit www.piawest.com.

About Oak Street Funding
Carmel, Ind.-based Oak Street Funding (www.oakstreetfunding.com) is a family of diversified financial services companies that offers commission-based commercial financing exclusively for insurance professionals and third-party loan servicing for financial institutions. Oak Street utilizes industry knowledge, proprietary technology and passion to deliver top-quality service and capital products to insurance and finance professionals nationwide. Oak Street Funding can be found on Twitter @OSFunding and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/OSFunding.