PEPs are a major opportunity for smaller advisers
Despite tepid interest, small businesses — and their advisers — stand to benefit from adding pooled employer plans.
Employee benefits
Benefits Think The retirement industry’s dilemma: An existential choice
Alternative retirement options are growing in popularity as employees reject traditional, more rigid, plans.
Caregiving responsibilities could be costing Gen Z their careers
Young professionals are struggling more than their older counterparts to juggle their jobs, debt, and families with aging parents.
On-Demand Web Seminar The hidden cost driver your pharmacy strategy is missing: Taking control of specialty infusion spend
Why medical specialty drugs are outpacing pharmacy spend, and what self-funded employers can do about it.
Workbook Optimized health plan workbook – A strategic guide for HR professionals
Unlock the clarity HR leaders need that can help turn complex benefits challenges into informed plan decisions.
With commuting pains growing, these benefits can help
Offering a variety of both financial and nonfinancial perks can help ease the friction of these workplace treks.
The biggest caregiving trends every employer should be watching
Caregiving is now a reality for nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers, reshaping how employers think about benefits, flexibility and support for working families.
How EWA can kickstart employee financial security
With the majority of employees living paycheck to paycheck, faster access to wages can give them a better shot at building financial security.
Benefits Think The post-subsidy ACA reality: What it means for benefits and the evolving broker role
A look at the current challenges facing employees and employers, and how to deliver value to clients.
Benefits Think The post-subsidy ACA reality: What it means for benefits and the evolving broker role
A look at the current challenges facing employees and employers, and how to deliver value to clients.
Requiring RTO? Previously remote employees expect extra perks
More holistic perks and benefits can keep turnover rates low as leaders shift from remote work to hybrid and in-person models.
Guide What type of broker are you? Fixer, Strategist, Trend-Setter or Defender?
There are different approaches to working with employers on benefits. Find out your natural style—and get fresh ideas.
What new Medicare GLP-1 coverage means for employers
Medicare now covers the medication for weight loss for eligible members, upping the need for corresponding lifestyle and behavioral benefits.
Benefits Think How lifestyles are reshaping voluntary benefits
Employers are beginning to explore a wider range of offerings that support everyday financial stability and real-life priorities beyond traditional insurance options.
Article Maternal risk is changing what employers need from women’s health benefits
Women's health benefits expanded rapidly around support and navigation, but preventing pregnancy complications now demands more clinically integrated care.
Adoption-friendly workplace benefits continue steady climb
Adoption benefits rose again in 2026, with average reimbursement topping $16,700 and paid leave increasing, according to a new Dave Thomas Foundation survey.
Managers play a key role in employee mental health, benefits use
Only 14% of workers let managers know they're struggling, according to a Headspace report, highlighting a missed opportunity for intervention.
How sticking with ICHRAs minimizes disruption, part 2
With this alternative model, benefit professionals have the potential to not only stabilize employee health benefit costs but actually return dividends.
Benefits Think Financial guidance in the workplace: It’s all in the family
By assessing the needs of various employee populations within a workforce, benefits can be constructed to be more independent and effective.
What’s ‘The Great Hunkering Down’ and why are benefits and perks at risk?
HR and benefits leaders are using the shifting employee-employer dynamic to cut down on costs — but it can't last forever.
