Cristy Gupton, CEO of employee benefits brokerage firm Custom Benefits Solutions, helped her clients fashion health plans designed to reduce employees’ risk of opioid abuse.

This year’s class of top women advisers understands how these virtues can make a positive impact on the benefits industry.

An update on the health insurance marketplace aims to ease the burden of enrollment for small businesses.

Employers are often looking for a benefits consultant to help them navigate healthcare, explains Questige’s John Sbrocco.

EBN and EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends, employer strategies and employee engagement.

The difference in returns is huge for investors working with a fiduciary.

Today, people are factoring finances in their decision to become parents — or not. Benefit teams can help ease the minds of employees who want to take on the responsibility of raising children.

Social influencers shared moments from EBN and EBA’s annual conference, where employers like Activision Blizzard and Walmart talked about how they’re approaching their benefits strategies.

The model notice that employers must provide before participants receive an “eligible rollover distribution” from a qualified 401(a), a 403(b), or 457(b) plan has changed.

When designing and administering a severance arrangement, employers can take definitive steps to ensure that the arrangement is compliant.

“It’s important to engage individuals across the organization to establish successful mental health initiatives,” says telecom Bell's senior health consultant.

To retain talent in an aggressive job market, companies have to engage and connect with their employees, especially those working in other regions.

When designing and administering a severance arrangement, employers can take definitive steps to ensure that the arrangement is treated as an ERISA plan.

With rising costs of college tuition and rent, young adults rely on their parents more than ever for financial support. Benefit teams can help cut dependency by providing access to financial planners.

The financial institution reaches out to workers, even before their first day on the job, to introduce them to their culture.

The outrageous prices for exclusive medications are crippling our health plans and terrorizing families in pain.

Current single human capital management systems fail to offer a better employee experience or ease of administration for employers. But there’s a better solution.

Virtual medical care can help with chronic conditions and reduce employee sick days but employers and advisers need to educate workers.

New technologies, greater competition and rising prices are complicating the role of today’s benefit brokers. How do they cope?