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At the end of 2012, $1.3 trillion was held in the U.S. in ETFs, which got started 20 years ago by State Street Corporation. The ability to trade shares in the funds as if they were shares of stock has made them an increasingly significant part of equities.

In an advance copy of Disability Divide: Employer Study provided to EBN, only 26% of HR professionals surveyed believe employees feel it’s very important to prepare for a disability; the same amount thinks employees are in fact properly prepared to withstand a disabling event.

Merck & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Roche Holding AG have opened a new front against cancer with the next generation of experimental drugs that use the human immune system to seek and destroy tumor cells.

President Barack Obama’s health secretary has called companies and other organizations, seeking financial contributions to help promote the 2010 health care law that takes full effect next year.

Benefits managers and human resources professionals have, in many cases, been so frantically busy of late that they might not be thinking beyond 2014, or Oct. 1, or maybe even next week. But what will personnel management look like 10 or 20 years from now? How will the role of HR change? [Images: Shutterstock]

Determining if your coverage is affordable is only one of several steps employers need to take before the end of the year, and that’s not even considering the preparations they should have made already.

An asset increase of $23 billion is not enough to offset a $60 billion increase in liabilities as interest rates fall below 4.0%, raising the funded status deficit to $321 billion

You say "tomato," I say "tomahhto." There's a big difference between questions and data requests. Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell says benefits professionals must learn to use the right language so they can ask relevant questions to get the most from their health plan data.

A test from Genomic Health Inc. helps predict whether prostate cancer is aggressive or slow- growing and is available now.

Employers Council on Flexible Compensation, Mercer, Transamerica and more announce personnel moves. Check to see if a colleague is mentioned today.