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Women bear the brunt of long-term care insurance cost burdens, according to Lisa Wendt, president and CEO of LifeSecure Insurance Company, which provides LTC and post-hospital recovery insurance coverage.

The Employee Benefits Group division of Sun Life Financial Inc. recently launched a campaign called “YOU” to educate and engage employees about their voluntary benefit choices during the latest open-enrollment season.

Critical-illness insurance is flying under the radar relative to other voluntary benefits, but a new MetLife white paper seeks to raise the product’s altitude among plan sponsors by showing how it adds financial protection and outlining steps to obtain the right amount of coverage.

Knowing that you benefits pros aren’t ones to shy away from difficulty (fiduciary compliance, anyone?), I encourage you to join in today’s national effort to help smokers quit the habit. Nov. 18 marks the 35th annual Great American Smokeout, a nationwide event to encourage smokers to go smoke-free for 24 hours.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released final regulations implementing Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). Although GINA was effective Nov. 21, 2009, these regulations do not take effect until Jan. 10, 2011.

The new Health Care Reform Interactive Timeline has garnered a gold recognition from ASBPE’s prestigious Digital Azbee awards.

Imagine this: An entire generation of investors has accumulated a significant amount of investable cash, but was too apprehensive of the stock market, of advisers, and of the potential costs, to know how to invest the money.

The federal government's plans to build a national database of health care claims data covering tens of millions of individuals are on hold, at least temporarily, after privacy advocates protested the idea and the brief public comment period.

The Department of Labor is cracking down on employers who fail to deposit workers’ retirement or health plan contributions and using the money for their own purposes.

Surprisingly, most Americans showed understanding of diversification, asset allocation and dollar-cost averaging, while flunking basic questions about other financial concepts in a survey for Northwestern Mutual. This discrepancy is consistent with findings in a 2006 study.