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Auto-enrollment, auto-escalation, participant investment advice and Roth 401(k) availability are among the important traits of a plan.

Clients need to ramp up communications efforts during open enrollment so employees can get the most value out of their benefits — as well as feel supported by their company.

HR managers, it’s time to help workers make the most out of their remaining flexible spending account funds by reminding them which expenses are eligible.

Marlo Peterson is a regional sales executive at Further, a health spending and savings account administration firm. Further serves more than 29,000 large corporations and small businesses, labor unions, retirees and groups in the public sector by providing health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, voluntary employee beneficiary association accounts and commuter benefit services. Visit hellofurther.com for more information.

Scammers can learn quite a bit of information from social media so don’t think that just because they know a couple pieces of information about you and your family that they are legit.

Dr. Richard Sandor is the Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also Chairman and CEO of the American Financial Exchange (AFX), theafex.com, an electronic exchange for direct interbank/financial institution lending and borrowing.

Wildfires are sending an unprecedented amount of smoke where many of the largest tech companies employ tens of thousands of workers.

Linda Jun is senior policy counsel at Americans for Financial Reform.

Frederick Scholl is cyber security program director at Quinnipiac University.