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Calling it the most personal device the company has ever created, Apple on Monday officially launched its smartwatch designed as a “comprehensive health and fitness companion.”

A new initiative announced by the White House Monday will bring $100 million in grant opportunities to create new high-tech jobs.

For small employers hesitant about the cost and workload involved with administering a retirement plan, benefit advisers can offer SIMPLE IRAs as an option.

As corporations continue to freeze or eliminate defined benefit plans, American workers may be getting increasingly concerned about their financial security in retirement and looking for guaranteed income options.

Despite predictions that private exchange enrollment will hit 30 million in 2017, employers remain cautious about them, including those early adopters who say they had little choice but to move to one.

The vast majority of employers realize that retirement medical benefit security is important to their retirees, but rising costs and risk concerns have prompted many of them to adjust their offerings.

For most, the definition of workplace culture is fairly nebulous and subjective. But workplace culture does comprise a few specific elements. How does your workplace incorporate these eight elements?

Republican House members are challenging the DOL’s efforts to require retirement advisers to follow a fiduciary standard, saying it reduces access to options and conflicts with the Dodd-Frank Act.

Commentary: Six ways to engage customers that are most helpful, according to sales expert John Graham.

Two major deals were responsible for the $8.5 billion in total sales, a LIMRA survey finds.

In the past five years, employers have realized just how precarious a position their employees are in when it comes to retirement and they have begun to put plans in place to help get them moving in the right direction.

If your flexible spending account plan had a year-end deadline of Dec. 31, employees could still have more time to use their leftover FSA funds, if you offer a grace period.

Rather than drop benefits in the Americas, which Hilton says would hurt not only its employees but hotel guests too, the company decided to move to a private exchange. During that process, one of the biggest critics of the move was the company’s vice president of benefits.

Commentary: The Supreme Court justices were very active in questioning both parties, although the most probing questions were aimed at the plaintiffs — plus one often overlooked consequence should the court decide in the plaintiffs' favor.

Can employees stressed out about their personal finances be as productive as those who are not? Not likely.

Commentary: These C-suite level positions are needed for a brokerage to run right, says MarshBerry’s Rob Lieblein.

Commentary: Sometimes the market changes in a way where these size businesses may be better positioned for success. Now may be that time, says tech adviser Joe Markland.

Private exchanges present an opportunity to engage employees in their health plans year-round, not just during open enrollment.

Fewer Americans are worried they won't have enough money to be self-sufficient in old age, but healthcare costs concerns still loom large.

HSS should extend these plans to employers with fewer than 100 employees as scheduled, Small Business Majority CEO says.