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Recent Yale study concludes that fructose, as opposed to glucose, has a minimal effect on telling the brain that it’s full, and may contribute the nation’s obesity epidemic.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Investment Company Institute say more and more 401(k) plans are offering target date funds, and more participants are using them — but the adoption rate has moved at a slower pace.

Auto-enrollment and –increase features continue to see success in defined contribution plans, reports Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which serves 2.5 million plan participants.

Conditional approval from federal government allows Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah to move forward in creating state-run health insurance exchanges to comply with health care reform.

Medical insurance markets crafted by four U.S. Republican governors won conditional approval by the Obama administration as the federal government nudges states toward full implementation of the landmark health-care overhaul.

The biggest U.S. medical insurer is learning to sell health insurance to consumers the way other companies sell shoes, office supplies or iPhones — through a storefront — as PPACA’s sweeping reforms take place.

Brokers may need to be concerned about how a proposed change by the NAIC to the current stop-loss model could essentially trap their clients and remove their options for affordable care – effectively forcing them into state exchanges and eliminating the role of the broker, writes EBA Blogger Sam Fleet.

Employers should be using the 2013 plan year as their basis for collecting information relevant to their compliance obligation, according to guidance from the IRS.

A strong stock market was not enough to help employers get closer to funding fully corporate pension plans, consulting firm Towers Watson finds; aggregate funded status went from 78% in 2011 to 75% at the end of 2012.

Globally, those who are slightly overweight and obese have the lowest risks, according to a new U.S. government report, but critics say the study doesn’t take enough other factors, such as disease or nutrition.