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How to advise retirement plan participants in response to shifts out of bonds.

Study finds younger workers are motivated to save but lack resources.

A recent report that the largest mutual fund in the world is now a stock fund, rather than an intermediate-term bond fund, could signal the great rotation — once just a theory — is underway.

As few as 20 or 30 enrollments per state per day are greeting the Obamacare marketplaces. With more congressional hearings on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act set to start tomorrow in the House, will lawmakers get some answers?

Walgreen Co. become the latest large employer to make significant changes to its employee health plan when it announced that it will move approximately 160,000 of its employees onto a private health insurance exchange, starting in 2014. The strategy is starting to look like a trend: Over the last several months, IBM, Time Warner, Sears Holdings and Darden Restaurants have all made similar announcements.

Helen Darling will be stepping down as CEO and president of the National Business Group on Health at the end of April. Stepping into her shoes will be Brian Marcotte, currently vice president of compensation and benefits at Honeywell.

For HR professionals, mid-year nondiscrimination testing needs to be at the top of that list. Waiting to test until the completion of the year can have severe negative consequences.

Passive approach to retirement investing still indicated.

As the president directs aides to look for solutions to the health plan cancellations, the White House’s chief technology officer will appear before Congress this week after being subpoenaed to do so.

Several answers might apply, but a good goal is to avoid regulatory difficulties.