Employers should start adopting more inclusive policies aimed at accommodating transgender employees. Here are five tips to help create a work environment where employees feel safe, welcome and valued.

The new year is typically a time when people take stock of their health and resolve to make changes for the better. It also provides a great opportunity for you to help your clients’ employees assess personal financial security and take steps to shore it up. This is particularly important, with more studies showing a direct correlation between someone’s physical health and financial well-being. With the rocky start in the financial markets this year, combined…

Panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance in March will share success stories and tips for growing your agency faster than you thought possible.

To avoid potential litigation, some plan sponsors are turning to collective investment trusts, which typically have lower costs than mutual funds. But there are some disadvantages that advisers and their clients need to understand before using this investment vehicle.

Those employers truly dodged a bullet. There are a couple advantages for starting this late in the game.

Commentary: Unlike overall wellness, where it applies to everyone, weight management is a very targeted thing, applicable to only a portion of the population. Don’t be afraid to say so.

The IRS has expanded preferential tax treatment for identity theft benefits, further incenting employers to offer this in-demand voluntary benefit.

Commentary: We need to address the journey as much as the destination, and that means delivering more effective financial literacy tools to employees.

A long-term alliance needs to support carrier, client and policy holder, but often fails to take care of the policy holder. In an upcoming session at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaiassance in Atlantic City, N.J., Trevor Garbers and Heather Garbers of HUB International will discuss how to ensure alliances produce a win-win-win situation.

A new strategic alliance in the employee benefit space between a top consultant and specialty provider spotlights the convergence of healthcare cost-containment strategies and talent management involving a highly specific workforce demographic.

Adviser Shannon Enders sees opportunities in tying eye care and health data

A highly competitive brokerage landscape has leading firms teaming up to enhance resources.

Commentary: One misstep along the way and these clients could ruin their finances in retirement and be forced to either change their lifestyle or go back into the workforce.

Commentary: While federal employment legislation most likely will not be enacted this year, employers can expect federal agencies to continue their efforts to implement the Obama administration's agenda through rule-making and increased compliance activity. Here's what is on the labor and employment law horizon for 2016.

The personalization of benefit options is leading to more demand for voluntary products within a private exchange, and exchange operators are working to meet that demand.

Just because a plan is compliant with the Affordable Care Act doesn’t mean it’s a compatible health savings account plan. Advisers need to be careful when designing HSAs to make sure plans satisfy all necessary rules.

Commentary: Potentially lower contributions are always conjoined with significant offsetting increases in PBGC premiums.

Commentary: If you cannot take the time out of your day to visit your clients, or their locations, or drive to visit a small prospect, why do you stay in this business?

Utilizing appropriate decision support tools and ending preconceived pricing notions will boost accident and disability participation, say industry reps.

Former AIG executives, Ty Sagalow and Ron Topping, and ex-ACE execs, Robert Giurlando and James Hageman, have joined the startup, which says its peer-to-peer technology will revolutionize the insurance business.