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With less than two weeks until the end of the Affordable Care Act’s Feb. 15 open enrollment period, the National Association for the Self-Employed offers these five tips to help prepare small business owners and their employees for purchasing health insurance.

Between client lunches and traveling to employer sites, benefit advisers can incur some interesting and often tax deductible expenses. But not everything is tax deductible. Here are the top 10 most outrageous tax deductions of 2014, according to the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Under-performing 401(k) plan? Maybe it's where you live. Judy Diamond Associates reviewed more than half a million 401(k) plans throughout the country to determine which states had the highest amount of under-performing plans. Rankings are based on rate of return, participation and employee contributions.

Increasing employee engagement in 401(k) plans is easier to do in some states than others. Judy Diamond Associates reviewed more than half a million 401(k) plans throughout the country to determine which states had the highest amount of over-performing plans. Rankings are based on rate of return, participation and employee contributions.

With the Supreme Court set to rule on subsidies on the federal health care exchange this year, these 5 states are set to have the lowest cost for insurance bronze plans with premiums and deductibles, as analyzed by HealthPocket.

Top on the list of concerns for many employers is the forthcoming Affordable Care Act tax on high-cost group health plans. While benefit advisers are already working with their clients to avoid the so-called “Cadillac tax,” many questions remain unanswered. Here are the top 5 open issues related to the Cadillac Tax, according to Richard Stover and Leslye Laderman, both principals in the Knowledge Resource Center of Buck Consultants.

With the Supreme Court set to rule on subsidies on the federal health care exchange this year, these 5 states are set to have the highest cost for insurance bronze plans with premiums and deductibles, as analyzed by HealthPocket.

Employee Benefit Adviser, in partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, introduces the top large-group insurance carriers in the country. Revealed in descending order, the listing is based on Form 5500 Schedule A reporting data on premiums as of Dec. 31, 2014.

Rate increases, more complexity and a compressed timeline are a few of the major concerns brokers have with the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey by Benefitter, a San Francisco-based technology solutions company.

Pending ACA-related court cases, enrollment and rising drug costs are just a few issues the industry is keeping an eye on during 2015. Here are the top 10 issues for this year based on a survey of Health Insurance Report advisory board members.