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Recent announcements by Credit Suisse Bank and private equity firm KKR that they will pay the expenses of nannies to accompany parents who wish to bring their infants on business trips has upped the ante for companies enhancing parental benefits in order to attract and retain top tier employees.

Health and wellness initiatives present a golden opportunity for advisers to strengthen local bonds and develop new business connections.

Regardless of their seniority, level of compensation or tenure, employees share the following misconceptions about retirement. Here’s how you can help.

There is a huge (and often missed) opportunity where brokers and consultants can step in to help and keep their value proposition at the forefront of clients’ minds.

There is a growing need for plan sponsors to help participants with retirement readiness and securing their financial future. This will drive plan sponsors to expand their financial wellness initiatives and evaluate retirement income solutions for their defined contribution plans, according to the Institutional Retirement Income Council. Here are four trends the IRIC has identified for 2016.

As the diverse health needs of the U.S. population grow, so does the need for doctors who can understand and empathize with the language and cultural context of their patients.

Trends in employee benefits and HR outsourcing bode well for brokers and advisers who are poised to guide their clients through increasingly complicated healthcare and compliance challenges, according to new industry research.

Many new health savings account holders don’t understand how to make the most of their accounts. Now is the time to guide them in the right direction.

Employers should start adopting more inclusive policies aimed at accommodating transgender employees. Here are five tips to help create a work environment where employees feel safe, welcome and valued.

The new year is typically a time when people take stock of their health and resolve to make changes for the better. It also provides a great opportunity for you to help your clients’ employees assess personal financial security and take steps to shore it up. This is particularly important, with more studies showing a direct correlation between someone’s physical health and financial well-being. With the rocky start in the financial markets this year, combined…

For digital health technologies to take root in American healthcare, they must be embraced by America’s large employers, writes Derek Newell, CEO of Jiff.

Panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance in March will share success stories and tips for growing your agency faster than you thought possible.

To avoid potential litigation, some plan sponsors are turning to collective investment trusts, which typically have lower costs than mutual funds. But there are some disadvantages that advisers and their clients need to understand before using this investment vehicle.

As employers prepare to distribute Forms 1095-C to employees by the newly extended IRS deadline of March 31, they should brace for increased questions from workers about the new forms.

Those employers truly dodged a bullet. There are a couple advantages for starting this late in the game.

Commentary: Unlike overall wellness, where it applies to everyone, weight management is a very targeted thing, applicable to only a portion of the population. Don’t be afraid to say so.

The IRS has expanded preferential tax treatment for identity theft benefits, further incenting employers to offer this in-demand voluntary benefit.

Commentary: We need to address the journey as much as the destination, and that means delivering more effective financial literacy tools to employees.

A long-term alliance needs to support carrier, client and policy holder, but often fails to take care of the policy holder. In an upcoming session at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaiassance in Atlantic City, N.J., Trevor Garbers and Heather Garbers of HUB International will discuss how to ensure alliances produce a win-win-win situation.

A new strategic alliance in the employee benefit space between a top consultant and specialty provider spotlights the convergence of healthcare cost-containment strategies and talent management involving a highly specific workforce demographic.