Employee benefits

Collective Investment Trusts can have cost-saving advantages, are increasingly accessible and provide a long-term investment perspective.

Brokers must move away from typical carrier negotiations and bring real cost-saving strategies to clients.

More companies will stretch matching contributions, include HSA information in education sessions and incorporate behavioral economics/finance elements in plan design.

Lawmakers in Illinois are so desperate to shore up the state’s massively underfunded retirement system that they’re willing to entertain an eye-popping wager.

The Washington bank chain increased its retirement contribution to 8% following the tax reform bill.

Almost half of employers surveyed by Willis Towers Watson already have or plan to make changes by the end of 2018 or into 2019.

Insurance expenses have become the country’s No.1 financial concern, providing an urgent need for transparent coverage information.

The insurer says it will continue updating its supplemental health employee benefit suite in 2018.

About half of mid-sized and large companies plan to expand personal financial planning and increase retirement funds, according to a new Willis Towers Watson report.

Employees should consider that state laws may differ on who may be legally recognized as a beneficiary's spouse and thus whether their partner would be entitled to spousal benefits.

Build an education program, perform an objective review of investments and benchmark features are a few of the activities advisers should encourage now.

Using lowest-cost share classes, performing an annual investment fund review and distributing required fee notices are among best practices.

President James Klein spoke with EBN about the organization’s agenda, now that Cadillac tax implementation is delayed another two years.

Form 1094 and 1095 series returns for 2017, due in the early months of 2018, are not included in tax filing and penalty relief that the IRS has extended to individuals.

The state is the latest in a string of cities and municipalities to bar questions of past pay.

The DOL is turning back the clock in a move that it believes will provide clarity for employers who seek to comply with the FLSA.

Collecting cost data and offering consumer-oriented tools to employees can help firms expose the widespread problem of variation in medical price and quality.

While the funds are ideal for certain people, they don't address important retirement considerations, such as the cost of funding a comfortable living and a person’s savings rate.

The problem can result in financial burdens and lost productivity for employees, but companies can provide support services and tools, including an advocacy service through the benefits plan.

Machine learning allows human resources professionals to deemphasize tedious aspects of the job while allowing them to pull a greater amount of insight from the results.