John Sbrocco is one of 20 young leaders reinventing employee benefits strategies and reducing clients costs

When rolled out correctly, CDH plans can be a win-win-win for advisers, their clients and their clients’ employees.

AI, gamification and mobile will become indispensable tools for human resources directors.

Auto enrollment of 401(k) plans could have saved the Keystone State millions to help employees who failed to save for their post-work years.

While the carriers back away from offering long-term care policies, advisers see abundant opportunities.

Several factors contribute to workers’ failure to use the perks available to them, but employers can help with predictive and preventive approaches.

Advisers are pressed to help clients reduce their health benefits spend while improving outcomes. These tools can help.

As PEOs continue to grow in popularity among smaller companies, benefit brokers and consultants may find partnering more productive than competing.

The financial group wants to partner with retirement counselors to offer employee stock ownership plans.

The most successful benefit advisers move beyond routine service offerings and position themselves as trusted business consultants.

Benefits experts believe that even if the regulations get killed entirely, best interest standards will live on.

Botsford Financial Group and Financial Development Systems have been tapped to help attract retirement plan advisers and plan sponsors to the Merit fold.

Rising Star Josh Sailar is primarily an investment adviser. But he’s not shy about bringing healthcare into the discussion with his small employer clients.

The sports bar and driving range venue implemented SurgeryPlus once it moved to a self-insured health plan and saw a 2.57% return on investment.

It’s easy to fault the insurance industry, but dealing with the government could be a nightmare. This is why benefit advisers need to step in.

A raft of under-popularized strategies are helping advisers reign in their clients healthcare costs.

To demonstrate their credibility to older potential clients, youthful brokers lean on mentors and beards.

The retailer implemented a benefit that allows workers early access to a portion of wages for hours they have already worked.

Employer clients with high-deductible health plans could be snared by recent legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon.

Employers may not be able to remove the stigma of behavioral illness, but they can invest in quality health programs where early identification and referrals to treatment can be encouraged and facilitated.