Employer Strategies

Betterment, Blooom and Captain401 bring new choices to the 401(k) investment advice space. Are they a good fit for your organization?

Betterment, Blooom and Captain401 bring new choices to the 401(k) investment advice space. Are they a good fit for your organization?

Employees’ financial circumstances are unique, and an employer’s retirement plan must prepare to meet those different needs. Here are five questions that employers and their advisers must have strong answers to in order to help employees save for the future.

Commentary: For the employer, the need to retain employees is strong and absorbing additional cost in the benefit plan will have strong short-term consideration.

Canadian institutional money manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec sets its sights on the U.S. market with its new infrastructure investment model, CDPQ Infra.

Commentary: A former Intel Corporation employee is suing the company for allegedly breaching its fiduciary responsibilities by investing employees’ retirement money in “risky and high-cost” hedge funds and private equity funds.

Commentary: Be on the lookout for NextAgency, an enrollment and administration firm with benefit adviser interests in mind.

How small companies are making use of their employee assistance programs.

Employee benefit departments are perceived by some as the “soft underbelly” in the world of corporate hacking targets, according to Adam Solander, a member of law firm Epstein Becker Green.

Commentary: Even the best hospitals are not immune to medical mistakes. However, there are steps employers can take to educate themselves about its costs.