Healthcare

In recent years, voluntary benefits have risen from a nice-to-have for employees to something that is quickly becoming crucial. Doug Mantz looks back at the evolution of voluntary benefits through the lens of one long-time client.

How to correct plan problems that surface after you get them in house.

Tuesday’s study found 13% of those ages 18 to 64 reported not taking their medications as prescribed to reduce costs compared with 5.8% of those 65 and older.

“Now is the time to buy before gender rating kicks in and before the best inflation option [5%, compounded for life] becomes unaffordable or goes away,” says one expert.

With two daughters in college, The Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman has come to appreciate that the three “R’s” continue into higher education. The traditional readin’, ‘rightin’, and ‘rithmatic, carry forward, but he's realized lately that a fourth “R” applies — an evolution with private higher ed in “R”etirement planning.

Benefit industry backlash awaits today's presentation of President Obama's proposal to limit IRA and DC plan accumulations.

Robert C. Lawton offers participant age guidelines to aid this decision.

A series of ground-breaking educational events in major markets providing financial professionals with strategies to capitalize on opportunities in the multi-billion dollar micro- to small-plan retirement market.

The substance is called carnitine, and as bacteria in the gut breaks it down, it turns into compound known to harden arteries, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Medicine.

American International Group Inc. and the U.S. asked a judge to dismiss claims in a lawsuit by former AIG Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg challenging the government’s bailout.