Employee benefits

UnitedHealth survey also shows employees who volunteer gain valuable business skills.

Salesforce.com shares how it uses social tools to connect with employees.

It’s time to announce the Benny Award and i-COMM Award winners and celebrate the achievements of truly remarkable benefits professionals who work so hard year-round on behalf of their employees.

Survey shows an important shift in sentiment and behaviors related to 401(k) planning and investing since 2008.

The Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman was very pleased with the fifth annual 403(b) plan survey from the Plan Sponsor Council of America for a number of reasons, but there is still work to do.

In practice, few participants – less than 1% in most plans – tend to access brokerage window options.

Investment firms, managers, financial planners, and retirement consultants and advisers for both the city and its retirees should take actions to help those in need.

Altered by the ACA, limited medical plans may actually increase in popularity for some workers.

ESOPs have been around years, but may be brand new to many advisers.

NAHU's new president, Tom Harte, shares his outlook on the year ahead and beyond.

A new tool for brokers to bring cost savings to clients — it involves creative plan design.

Employees don’t know about consumer-driven health care. Once they learn more, they say they don’t want it. So what’s a broker to do?

The results for selling voluntary have been ‘pathetic’ recently, says EBA Columnist Nelson Griswold, who shares how to overcome that.

EBA Retirement Columnist John Ludwig on what to do with all that paper the IRS requires in retirement plan documentation.

Despite changes to group benefits, many agents are wary of selling voluntary - here's why they should reconsider.

Expert says “there’s a good deal of pressure” on Congress to raise the bar for mandated employer-sponsored health care from 30 hours a week to 40, but it wouldn’t come without a fight.

Fifteen percent of employers say they “definitely will not” or “probably will not” continue sponsoring coverage in five years.

House Speaker John Boehner renewed his vow to abolish President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act after the Republican-controlled chamber voted to postpone two of the legislation’s key provisions.

Hospital admissions have been falling as patients who have seen their deductibles rise put off seeing a doctor and as some types of services are being shifted away from inpatient to outpatient treatment.

The lack of clear trends or direction is exactly the environment in which investors are seeking advice.