Lower-cost benefit alternatives target credit unions
New offering features 16 benefit levels, premium savings, free services, integrated wellness incentives and cash rewards to help attract and retain top talent.
Benefit strategies
Top 20 workplaces for parents
Employers including American Express, Deloitte and Salesforce offer benefits including paid parental leave, fertility treatments and flexible schedules that make moms and dads happy at work and at home.
Sun Life-Maxwell deal may signal more insurance acquisitions ahead
As tech drives M&A activity, more insurers seek vertical integration to improve user experiences and broaden benefit portfolios.
Supercuts taps Decisely to offer employee benefits to employees
The hair-salon chain chooses a benefits and HR services firm to deliver services to its franchise owners and workers.
Sun Life-Maxwell deal may signal more insurance acquisitions ahead
As tech drives M&A activity, more insurers seek vertical integration to improve user experiences and broaden benefit portfolios.
Benefitfocus platform expands distribution channel
New BenefitsPlace offering features standard integrations, educational videos, custom messaging and broker-friendly design.
Supercuts taps Decisely to offer employee benefits to employees
The hair-salon chain chooses a benefits and HR services firm to deliver services to its franchise owners and workers.
Benefits Think The DOL Audit: Understanding the spectrum of risk
Investigations rarely happen out of the blue — they tend to occur because someone invited investigation. So, what can employers and their service providers do to avoid one?
Jason Grantz
Unified Trust Company
Tanimura & Antle contributes $21.7 million to employee stock ownership plan
The payment allows the plan to allocate shares of stock to each eligible worker valued at nearly 18% of eligible wages earned during 2017.
Benefitfocus platform expands distribution channel
New BenefitsPlace offering features standard integrations, educational videos, custom messaging and broker-friendly design.
Benefits Think 4 tips for how to talk benefits with millennials
While advisers tend to see them as younger workers, these employees are getting married, starting families and purchasing more benefits through their employers.
Cy Moser
Trustmark Voluntary Benefits Solutions
Concentra expands telemedicine program
The virtual healthcare provider is also extending employee access to its telerehab program to 11 additional states.
Student loan benefits poised to take off
With college obligations ballooning to $1.48 trillion, a growing number of employers are offering aid — and Congress may offer some relief.
Rebranding benefits: Goodbye ‘voluntary.’ Hello ‘enhanced’
With a little name change, brokers are attempting to separate themselves from carrier rep competitors to form stronger partnerships with healthcare adviser specialists.
Benefits Think Is your maternity program up to par? 3 questions to ask
Employers should start by asking if their benefits are relevant to their workforce.
Paris Wallace
Ovia Health
Benefits Think Technology for benefits communications: What are you waiting for?
Employers who don’t embrace digital options run the risk of looking archaic and out of touch among younger generations who are more tech-savvy.
Lisa Beyer
Willis Towers Watson
Benefits Think The practical cash balance plan: Choosing the right interest crediting rate
This critical decision point in the retirement plan’s design process will have an impact on the ultimate success of your objectives.
Tom Swain
Findley
Northwell Health struggled with PTO policy — then NY’s family leave law upped the stakes
The largest healthcare provider in New York struggled to avoid disrupting patient care when its employees took time off, so it turned to predictive cost modeling and benchmarking to solve the problem.
Brokerage, retirement firm partner to fight large company consolidation
Innovo Benefits Group and Aegis Retirement Partners join together against sales-driven strategies and the commoditization of services among large group advisers.
Empowering employees through wide-ranging benefits
A New England adviser integrates group, voluntary and individual products to ensure workers have control of their own healthcare throughout their lives.
