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Guardian Life Insurance Company has announced plans to acquire Avesis Incorporated, a vision, dental and hearing benefits administrator for government and commercial benefit programs.

Commentary: For employees who are also caregivers, there’s often not enough hours in the day to do good work and good caregiving. Being an employee/caregiver comes at a price for both businesses and employees.

James R. Evans, a partner in the Los Angeles firm Allston and Bird, LLP says there are dozens of companies in the sharing economy that could be affected by the outcome of the Uber class action.

It was another banner year for technology in the benefits space, with the launch of several new tech companies in the benefit space and a continued look forward with innovative new products.

Commentary: One area of business that hasn’t kept pace with the economic rebound is compensation for key talent.

Large group renewals, small group renewals, ACA reporting, and much much more. A number of events in the benefit calendar year converged to make the fourth quarter of 2015 a season to remember. How can brokers better prepare for Q4 2016?

Private benefit exchanges continued to grow in popularity this year — mostly in the midmarket segment. The exchanges also saw changes to their product offerings on both the employee and supplier side.

With open enrollment for 2016 over for many employers, it might be tempting for benefit managers to sit back, relax and forget about it for another year. But benefits communications experts say now is the ideal time to conduct an open enrollment post-mortem before memories of what worked and what didn’t have faded.

As employers continue to outsource HR and benefit admin functions, benefit brokers should prepare to work in an increasingly complicated environment.

Sitting back and hoping for the best is not an investment strategy, says Matt McDaniel, U.S. head of defined benefit risk at Mercer.