Employer Strategies

Despite worries about increasing health care costs for individuals, employee contributions to their health care plans are actually dropping, but employer cost and employee contributions also vary widely based on an employer’s industry, new research from UBA finds.

Advisers share why they entered the private exchange business and key players detail how to help employer clients chose the right exchange.

Few plan sponsors have bought into the idea of annually automatically re-enrolling participants in a qualified default investment alternative, such as a target-date fund, as a means of assuring that their assets are allocated in a manner experts would consider appropriate for retirement investing.

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Many companies say they will bolster their efforts in 2015 to increase their workers’ sense of financial health, extending their strategies beyond just retirement readiness

The advent of private and public health care exchanges has expanded employers’ horizons to consider subsidizing pre-Medicare eligible retiree health benefits through the individual market.

Consolidation actively encourages employees to roll in their prior employer retirement account balances to the current plan at the beginning of employment.

President Obama late Monday signed into law NARAB II, the highly-anticipated legislation re-establishing the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, creating a clearinghouse that would ease the ability of brokers to sell insurance in states across the U.S.

Accidents are inevitable and they come in many forms – from minor injuries to life-changing events – and the right accident insurance can be a critical layer of financial protection for many employees.

EAPs have evolved from counseling and call centers to offering employer clients a breadth of services, including regulation compliance.