A possible model for PPACA state exchanges, VIRTUAL COMPARE shows how easily brokers can be included in the process.

Self-insuring is an attractive concept because of the flexibility it offers an employer to design a health plan that falls within its budget and meets the unique needs of its employees. The potential for cost savings is greater when an employer pays claims directly instead of paying premiums to an insurer, as in a fully insured plan.

The much-anticipated report tackles several potential ways of compensating brokers and navigators in state health exchanges.

Congress has created powerful tax incentives for business owners to use ESOPs as an ownership succession strategy. There's never been a better time to help your clients take advantage of them.

More brokers are taking advantage of the big change taking place in the vision care space: the connection between vision care and wellness programs.

Shining a spotlight on a six-pack of ideas you can use to add new services, try a fresh approach to selling, and tweak your strategies for prospecting, selling and retaining clients.

By incorporating employee health clinics into the business structure of their clients, Matt McQuide and Rick Gantt are able to bring down health care costs while changing the way employers think about health care delivery. Not to mention keep themselves firmly entrenched as the BOR in the process.

As more employers adopt automatic enrollment, employees are participating in DC plans at a record high rate, a new study from Aon Hewitt finds.

Advisers in other states are understandably concerned about Vermont's effort to create a single-payer health care system, but overreacting to Vermont doesn't help. Shaping how reform will look in your state will.

A new report from MetLife suggests that financial advisers need to do a better job of educating their clients about the importance of managing their emotions as well as their spending and investing behavior during and close to retirement.

Here’s a recent list of accomplishments in the industry:

Enterprise investment in the digital universe — cloud, hardware, software, services, and staff to create, manage, store and generate revenue from the information — has increased 50%, to $4 trillion, since 2005, according to an EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe study. The forces behind this relentless growth are driven by technology and money. New "information taming" technologies are driving the cost of creating, capturing, managing and storing information down to one-sixth of what it was in…

Plan sponsors can raise the level of participation in voluntary benefits by providing live assistance to explain options to their employees, according to a recent survey.

The majority of Americans say they want and need income replacement projections for financing their retirement, but most do not have access to the data nor an understanding of how to translate their 401(k) savings into a stream of retirement income, according to new research.

DTCC Insurance & Retirement Services announced the release of a new information service designed for insurance carriers and broker/dealers selling annuity products.

In a panel discussion at the Insured Retirement Institute’s regulatory conference on Tuesday officials from the Departments of Labor and Treasury discussed increasing access to guaranteed lifetime income products and the proposed rule on the definition of a fiduciary that would regulate retirement savings programs and professionals.

President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders hope to reach a budget deal in the coming weeks that would narrow stubborn budget deficits and extend the country's borrowing authority.

Many Americans age 50 and older worry about funding their long-term care, don’t feel financially prepared, and would strongly prefer to receive long-term care at home rather than in a nursing home, according to a recently released survey.

Hundreds of National Association of Health Underwriters members attended the organization’s 81st annual convention in San Antonio, which concludes Wednesday.

The New Jersey Assembly on June 23 approved a bill that will require 750,000 government employees and retirees to contribute substantially more for their health insurance and pensions.