Laurence D. Fink thinks U.S. employers should be required to put money aside for their employees’ retirement, similar to Australia’s superannuation system.

People with health insurance saw increases in their medical costs slow from 2009 to 2011, signaling potential structural changes in the industry that could cut health care inflation and save the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars, according to two studies.

While the financial advisory industry is growing rapidly, it's shutting out women, according to a new study.

The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill designed to repair the nation’s worst-funded pension system by raising contribution levels for state employees and delaying the retirement age.

A spike in reports of temporary workers suffering fatal injuries on the job has spurred a new initiative to protect them.

Countless pieces of legislation are introduced in Washington each year and nothing is done with them. As NAHU pushes for a hearing on the MLR bill in the Senate, what are its chances?

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. climbed in New York trading yesterday after profit beat estimates and the insurer’s margins widened.

Big “I” and ACORD technology workgroups come together to push forward ID federation, real time, e-signatures and self-service capabilities

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is taking a firm stand on the discussion about how the navigators' role varies from brokers and agents - they're different. After testifying before an April hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Gary Cohen, the director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, part of CMS, told EBA that navigators will be supplying objective information, while brokers will continue in their role of advising. "They are not making recommendations, they're not selling," Cohen said about navigators.

At the 10th World Health Care Congress held just outside Washington, D.C., in April, Mark Fogel, head of HR for New York-based accounting firm Marcum Group, said his organization is still "grappling" with what to do about the Affordable Care Act and the new world for employers.

Want proof that advisers need to be engaged in social media? In a recent report the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission clarified that its Regulation FD rules permit companies to use social media outlets to make significant corporate announcements, provided that those sites are generally accessible to the public and that investors have been notified about which social channels a firm intends to use.

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Transamerica’s Stig Nybo author of Transform Tomorrow: Awakening the Super Saver in Pursuit of Retirement Readiness on how building a proper retirement nest egg is a big social crisis.

David Goldhill, CEO of the game show network takes on U.S. health care system spurred by death of his father.

The federal government is doing everything it can to ensure public health insurance exchanges are ready to begin enrollment on October 1. However, the head of the agency that is building the marketplace warned it will be a close call to the finish and everyone must work together to ensure that happens.

In the hunt for return on investment, employers are taking a closer look at financial disincentives in wellness.

EBA editor Elizabeth Galentine on how Employee Benefit Adviser helps celebrate the individual adviser.

A day in the life of Heather Gerths, employee benefit agent at McCune and Reed in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Social media is taking off as a way for brokers and advisers to sell and market in their agencies. Ryan Hanley RyanHanley.com is a broker turned marketer who faced resistance but now has increased sales.

Mel Schlesinger on how insurance brokers should market themselves with the agent or agency at the front.