Employee benefits

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

The ERISA prohibition against such provisions don’t completely shield against participant conduct.

Supplemental disability income plans are so mainstream today they're thought of as plain vanilla. That’s all well and good until the other shoe falls. And it often does. When employers experience problems with existing voluntary disability plans, most of these issues can be traced back to when the plan was originally designed.

Guidelines on working with TPAs included.

No clear path to investment classes to which funds are flowing.

A $267 million computer system built by a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. is one of the most important determiners of whether the Affordable Care Act succeeds.

Employers should prepare for potential problems by drafting clear policies and thoughtful procedures on bring-your-own-device setups.

Health insurance premiums will drop by about 50% on average for consumers in New York who buy new plans through a state-run marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act.

During the last three years, 44% of those questioned say that 10% or fewer of their current clients had asked about possible life insurance strategies.

Many plan sponsors are adopting a more holistic approach that integrates plan design, risk transfer and investment management.

Legal experts weigh in on the IRS guidance making ACA’s employer mandate delay official.

The situation is not hopeless for them, but time is not on their side.

Along with tying your shoes and naming your colors, you learned to count in preschool. So, how hard can it be to count things in health data? It’s not hard, but your preschool strategies won’t give you the right answer.

Key findings in a recent study by the Society of Actuaries can give us some much needed context.

The Atlanta-based banking organization has added new retirement income projection tools that it says enhances the ability of plan participants to make more informed decisions around retirement planning.

Five unnamed U.S. employers will offer benefits through Mercer’s private exchange, the Mercer Marketplace, starting in 2014, the company announced Monday.

Interaction with clients suffering in some cases.

Although the stock market has been in record territory and economic indicators have improved, there are defensive investments planners and retirement investors should keep an eye on.

Benefits broker and advisory firm Prescott Pailet sees the delay as an opportunity to give many of its clients room to breathe – especially those in the restaurant and hospitality industries, who would be most impacted by potential penalties.

Already topping $20 billion a year, UnitedHealthcare predicts its contract reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and ancillary care providers linked to accountable care will hit $50 billion by 2017.