10 key takeaways from Workplace Benefits Renaissance
EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends and technology.
Benefit management
10 key takeaways from Workplace Benefits Renaissance
EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends, broker strategies and technology.
Benefits Think 3 defined contribution plan design trends to watch
Expect employers to take steps, such as maximizing automatic services, that will encourage positive behaviors to help individuals reach their financial goals.
Aimee DeCamillo
T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services
Benefits Think How to build a multigenerational benefits strategy
For the best approach, clients should find a balance between cost containment and employee engagement.
Greg Blemlek
Corporate Synergies
How tech, AI can help cut healthcare costs
There’s a big “gap in strategy — or the lack thereof,” says Curtis Cannon of Axis Recovery. “A lot of brokers have a bolt-on mindset.”
Is it time to make benefits a bigger part of workplace culture?
Employers should partner with advisers to help workers understand offerings and make them more engaged year-round.
How a benefits communications plan fixed Omni Hotel’s enrollment ‘chaos’
The company had issues with inconsistent messaging and "way too many medical plans." A partnership with Hodges-Mace and on-site enrollment counselors helped turn things around.
Benefits Think How to build a multigenerational benefits strategy
The best approach should find a balance between cost containment and employee engagement.
Greg Blemlek
Corporate Synergies
Dead judge’s vote shouldn’t have counted, Supreme Court rules
The high court said judges “are appointed for life, not for eternity,” in setting aside a pay-discrimination ruling written by a jurist who died a week and a half before the decision was issued.
Advisers need to get smarter about using benefits tech
Technology alone won’t drive business for brokers, but when used correctly, it can make a good addition.
Younger generations driving lifestyle benefits
Millennials and Gen Z want more from their employers than the basic medical coverage. Learn how to adapt benefits to their needs as they age.
Q&A: Whither healthcare in America?
No one knows what the future of healthcare will be, but these experts say it needs to be simpler.
Benefits Think 7 principles to help clients promote financial wellness
Traditional financial literacy programs may be ignoring the fact that for many employees, money is deeply emotional.
Carla Dearing
Sum180
Benefits Think 7 principles for helping employees deal with financial stress
Traditional financial literacy programs may be ignoring the fact that for many employees, money is deeply emotional.
Carla Dearing
Sum180
Home is where the heart is, and where one adviser gives back to the community
BHC Insurance’s James McMillan, one of this year's Rising Stars, embraces technology to explain benefits but says “the best form of explanation is always direct one on one contact.”
OneDigital acquires Veritas Risk Services
The brokerage says it plans to continue expanding over the next one to two years.
Papa John’s delivers college benefits to its corporate workers
The pizza maker is partnering with Purdue University Global to offer tuition reimbursement education benefit.
2019’s Rising Stars in Advising
These young standout advisers see a changing workforce sparking new benefits for gig workers, student loan debt relief and better engagement tactics from employers. Ranging in age from 26 to 35, they represent the next generation ready to make their mark on an evolving industry.
Looking forward: Rising Star weighs in on adviser roles
Ed Ligondé, one of our 20 Rising Stars of 2019, used his own medical condition as inspiration to learn about healthcare — and improve employee benefits education along the way. Read even more about where he sees the industry moving here, and meet our other Rising Stars here.
Portable benefits: Perks for the gig economy
With a growing group of workers joining the gig economy, how to keep independent contractors healthy and financially secure may lie in portable benefits.
