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Commentary: There is a new normal when it comes to underwriting offers in the employer-sponsored or group LTCI marketplace.

The adoption rate of managed accounts remains low, yet retirement plan participants who use them report higher projected retirement wealth and better portfolio diversification.

Benefits Professional of the Year Marty Webb hits a benefits home run with an overhaul of AT&T’s health and wellness programs and the launch of a health care cost transparency campaign.

As the health care landscape continues to evolve, the expanding menu of options has made navigating benefits a tricky endeavor for employees and employers alike. But one new partnership aims to help curb the confusion.

With open enrollment season upon us, there’s a lot of talk about benefits communications. Here are three tips to ease the communications burden.

Commentary: We find our clients like having a guaranteed income, and they also like having buckets of income that start at different times and are taxed in different ways.

This year’s winners put special emphasis on health care cost transparency, financial wellness, private exchange adoption and face-to-face communications.

Americans express lower overall retirement confidence than in years past, but rank saving for retirement a top priority.

Commentary: Just because vendors are promising you will avoid penalties because you were able to provide a “good faith” effort, doesn’t mean you actually will be penalty-free.

Employers looking to attract top talent are using social media to make the employer brand the focus of their recruiting efforts.

Generation Y employees want more customization and education about their benefits — and employers need to provide a broad range of offerings while taking a holistic view to contain rising health care costs.

Commentary: Where do these fees go? There are a number of hands in the pot. Here are the three entities that collect on 401(k) fees.

Commentary: With most businesses, ours included, we derive 80% of our revenue from 20% of our clients. Frequently, we don’t take the time to analyze the characteristics of the 20%, says EBA Advisory Board member Andy Torelli.

Schwab’s Steve Anderson talks managed accounts, QDIAs and the increased attention to financial wellness.

More companies may be held responsible for labor-law violations committed by contractors and forced to negotiate wages and benefits with their workers under a decision by a politically split U.S. labor board.

Group pension buy-outs are usually seasonal, with the most activity happening in the fourth quarter, but industry analysts are seeing a trend toward more sales throughout the year.

Health and wellness startup HealthiestYou promotes productivity in the workplace and enables parents to conveniently meet with doctors, according to brokers who have firsthand experience.

These employee benefit brokerages have the most large-group, in-force commissions for employers in their state. EBA, in partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, reveals in alphabetical order the top five brokerages in each state, beginning with Mississippi through Wyoming. The listing is based on Form 5500 Schedule A reporting data on commissions as of July 31, 2015.

Under USERRA, employees that are called up for Reserves or National Guard duty are considered a protected class, and can’t be discriminated against based upon their military service or obligation.

Commentary: Zywave’s latest survey reveals what a range of employers across the country are looking for from their benefit adviser.