While most agents favor a traditional office setting, 45 percent of agents occasionally work from home.

Just over half of respondents cite working with clients and meeting their needs as the aspect of their jobs they like the best. Thirty-six percent prefer selling and closing deals.

Agents would rather insure and own a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 over any other unique collectible, including a ring from Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry collection, an early Picasso sketch and a Babe Ruth baseball bat.

Over 90 percent of respondents are actively pursuing new personal lines business through marketing and sales while aiming to grow their existing business at the same time.

Over 80 percent of all agents solicit referral business from existing clients.

Direct billing; friendly, knowledgeable employees; and easy online processes are the traits agents most want in a provider.

Proving that agents can be car guys (or gals), too, just under one quarter of respondents own one or more collector vehicles. Of those vehicles, muscle cars rank the highest, with postwar classics and sports cars taking the second and third spots, respectively.

Just over half of all respondents have attended a collector vehicle event in the last two years.

The agents who took the survey have been asked to insure some pretty wacky stuff, including a kangaroo, a bikini contest, and a goat hunt in Switzerland.

Agents will go to great lengths for their clients. One agent allowed her client to call her “Kate,” despite the fact that her name is Angela. The client’s former girlfriend — who had recently broken up with him — was named Angela and it was just too painful for him to call his agent by her real name.