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The news is going from bad to worse on target-date funds. Performance is flagging, and the latest from EBN's sister publication Money Management Executive: Allstate has decided to cancel its seven ClearTarget Retirement Funds after only 10 months, saying that it has decided to exit the target-date mutual...

A workplace without walls? Encouraging socializing among coworkers? The folks at Gensler, a design, planning and strategic consulting firm, are big proponents of both. Read up on why in a two-part series in the February and March issues of EBN.

Tell the truth - which training session would you rather go through: Spending two hours watching PowerPoint slides go by or playing a video game? The benefits and communications teams at Assurant Employee Benefits, a Kansas City-based benefits carrier, thought employees would be more engaged by the...

It's no secret, the world's gone a-Twitter. Whether being used to communicate with friends, colleagues or like-minded strangers, the social networking site Twitter experienced 1,382% growth between February 2008 and February 2009.

This month, Contributing Editor and EBN legal eagle Frank Palmieri helps you find the devil in the details of the federal suspension of the required minimum distribution provision in the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act. WRERA suspends for 2009 IRS rules that compelled retirees age 70 1/2 and...

On the heels of last week's release of Department of Labor model notices to guide employers in explaining the federal COBRA subsidy for laid-off workers, EBN and sister publication Employee Benefit Adviser will moderate an informational web seminar tomorrow, March 25, offering more information about the...

I love any excuse for a party, but this is a genuinely good reason: The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is once again leading the celebrations for the annual National Employee Benefits Day (April 2).

To put it mildly, helping employees feel financially secure in this economic environment is challenging. The Principal Financial Group® believes companies meeting the challenge deserve to be recognized, and thus have opened the eighth annual search for The Principal® 10 Best Companies for Employee Financial...

In a column last Sunday in the Austin-American Statesman, commentator Scott Burns wrote:

First care coordination is debunked, and now this? A new study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Managed Care rips another page from the cost-containment playbook and turns it into confetti, concluding that step therapy -- which substitutes "Mercedes" brand-name prescription medicines...