Practice management

ACA reporting requirements have brought increased scrutiny of employer-sponsored healthcare plans and the government is largely expected to respond to red flags through audits.

Some group programs are being dropped and workers being moved to individual private exchanges.

Employers are already swamped enough dealing with a litany of benefit issues. That’s why, a panel of plan sponsors explained at the NAPA 401(k) Summit in Nashville, they are looking for benefits help from their advisers.

Brokers should review account fee arrangements, among other actions, as they prepare for DOL’s new regulation.

Adviser Alex Assaley and his agency built a Web platform to help plan sponsors educate employees and relieve their money distress.

The Department has stepped up employer compliance checks, for which brokers should be prepared, according to Zynia CEO Julie Hulsey.

Bill Kite and D&S Agency are coming up with creative ways employers can meet health care reform requirements.

EBRI CEO Harry Conaway, speaking this week at the NAPA 401(k) Summit in Nashville, says employers need to embrace the growing benefit trend to help keep and attract employees.

Strategies such as narrowcasting can help you develop a website that creates opportunities for prospective clients to find you.

Specializing in a business sector allows advisers to intelligently discuss an employer’s most pressing problems.