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Commentary: If employers want to ensure an engaged and retained workforce, it’s time they started planning their 2016 budget with these key trends in mind.

Commentary: Without it, your clients might be missing the full picture of what really is impacting their employees’ overall health and productivity.

Commentary: The Affordable Care Act’s reporting requirements are challenging, and carriers, employers and advisers have scrambled up a steep learning curve. Here are five predictions about how compliance will unfold in the coming months.

Commentary: The ACA isn’t perfect, but what preceded it was far worse. Let’s get to work on making position changes to address the system’s real flaws, says adviser David C. Smith.

Commentary: Companies must abandon the constraints of how they have done business in the past and instead embrace a new consumer-driven experience from end to end.

Employers and employees should be considering the benefits of health savings accounts as a retiree benefit, industry experts say. HSAs offer cost-shifting benefits for employers and employees that advisers should be educating clients about.

Commentary: These voluntary benefits aren’t just nice to have anymore; they are necessary facets of recruitment and retention programs.

Aetna Inc. is quitting the health insurance industry’s main lobbying group, dealing a second blow to the organization just months after the exit of UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Technology and better educated consumers are two factors that are reducing the costs associated with retirement plans — which in turn are seeing exchange-traded funds grow in popularity, industry experts say.

Commentary: Healthcare reform is evolving and retirement reform is on the horizon in many states, with more coming.