Benefits Think

There's a new industry in town: Investment newsletters that encourage frequent trading in 401(k) accounts. This is not a welcome development for plan sponsors. Here's why.

When it comes to health benefits, most employers want to figure out a strategy and stick with it, year after year. But what should small employers do when their existing plan faces increasing costs, less flexible design choices and the possibility of federal penalties?

Recently T. Rowe Price banned some participants in the American Airlines 401(k) plan from trading in certain T. Rowe Price funds. This could happen to participants in your retirement plan, and here's why.

Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell warns employers not to be wowed by vendors' "whiz-bang" options and the quantity of their reporting.

The No. 1 HR concern with the Affordable Care Act is employee communication and questions, says a recent survey from Keas.

Guest blogger Robert C. Lawton offers advice for helping plan sponsors overcome employees' inertia, aversion to loss and myopia in their 401(k) plans.

Beverly Beattie recently worked with a productivity consultant who taught her and her staff how to set up our environment so that it functions in a way that serves us well. Here are the top three takeaways she gained from this experience.

Blogger Jerry Kalish says that while the retirement income challenge is starting to be addressed, there still needs to be a delivery system — which is you. This retirement expert shares how you can achieve that.

For managers and benefits professionals to effectively address stress in the workplace, it's important to understand how stress affects employee productivity, and whether it affects men and women differently.

A significant part of helping employees achieve retirement readiness is providing a 401(k) plan with features that guide participants down the path to retirement readiness.