Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

As the economy improves, corporate profits increase, and the job market strengthens, employers are getting creative to hold on to key employees, including developing and articulating a distinctive employee value proposition. Retention (and acquisition) requires not only a competitive salary and benefits, but also an array of nonfinancial strategies.

Most, if not all, recent analyses of wellness programs have had a seemingly myopic focus on the impact of wellness on health care costs to the exclusion of these programs' effects on an organization's business and financial outcomes.

401(k) plans may not be the perfect retirement plan vehicle but they do have a number of important attributes that most of us probably take for granted.

Leaders overseeing the launch of the federal health care exchange understood the importance of technology. But they did not understand how to build technology. And that lack of intuitive understanding and respect for the nature of how technology is built led to decisions that doomed the project's launch.

Smart investments in disease prevention, and keeping employees healthy in the first place, will pay off. This means moving beyond just worksite wellness to invest in building health outside office walls and in the community.

The present status of the retirement system does not bode well for the retirement system, or for baby boomers who have or will be reaching retirement age from 2012 to 2030.

Used to assess and evaluate changes in employee health, biometric health screenings are a crucial component of a comprehensive worksite health program. As a result, biometric health screenings are increasing in popularity and are being implemented by more and more employers.

From active trading to company matches, here are some common misconceptions — and the reality — your employees may have about their 401(k) plans.

The number of people who died in hospitals as a result of medical mistakes is approaching half a million, according to Patient Safety America. Medical mistakes not only cost lives and misery but billions of dollars in extra costs, most of which is paid by employers.

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.