How advisers can improve life insurance education
Most employees learn about the product on their own or from family members and many know little about it, Lincoln Financial finds.
Practice management
Benefit pros on the move: Uber, Lockton, The Standard and more make key appointments
The latest hires and promotions inside advisory firms and other companies across the nation.
How Google Hire helps employers better manage recruitment process
The company’s recently released applicant-tracking system is helping Brad’s Deals and other employers find, place workers.
Benefits Think 4 ways for advisers to protect and build business during fourth quarter
This is the ‘make or break’ period for brokers to retain and attract clients for the coming year.
Ron Goldstein
Choice Administrators
6 unconventional questions to ask when choosing a benefits tech provider
Typical RFPs focus on capabilities, but not the company’s processes and people.
Benefit pros on the move: Uber, Lockton, The Standard and more make key appointments
The latest hires and promotions inside advisory firms and other companies across the nation.
MetLife, IBM to launch end-to-end benefits tech product
The IBM Insurance Platform aims to disrupt the small-group market through cognitive computing, improved data analytics, enhanced security and more.
How Google Hire helps employers better manage recruitment process
The company’s recently released applicant-tracking system is helping Brad’s Deals and other employers find, place workers.
Grooming the next generation of brokers
Finding young talent in the advising field can be difficult, as evidenced by the growing median age of advisers, but family firms are enlisting children and grandchildren as eventual successors.
6 unconventional questions to ask when choosing a benefits tech provider
Typical RFPs focus on capabilities, but not the company’s processes and people.
Benefitfocus launches initiative to help advisers with client technology implementations
Preferred Partner Program and Broker Advisory Council deliver customized tools and reduced rates while providing opportunity for plan feedback.
Benefits Think Collaborative movement strengthens advising
Like-minded brokers are banding together, finding joy in helping would-be competitors get a win for their clients, says adviser Rachel Miner.
Rachel Miner
Thrive Benefits
Benefits Think The race for top talent drives the next generation of voluntary benefits
As base health plans become more generic, having unique and tailored products will become a key differentiator for recruitment and retention.
Alex Ward
Hodges Mace
Telecommuting cuts could alienate top talent
Cutting work-at-home ability can be a short-sighted option in candidate-driven job market.
Benefit pros on the move: Mercer, USI, Welltok and more make key appointments
The latest hires and promotions inside advisory firms across the nation.
Alight Solutions looking for white label, brokerage partners
The Aon spinoff has ‘started a number of discussions in the marketplace’ with the country’s largest firms, CEO Chris Michalak says.
Benefit pros on the move: Mercer, USI, Welltok and more make key appointments
The latest hires and promotions inside advisory firms across the nation.
Top 30 employers for women
Benefits including career development programs and paid parental leave are giving these companies the edge, according to a ranking from job reviewing platform Fairygodboss.
Telecommuting cuts could alienate top talent
Cutting work-at-home ability can be a short-sighted option in candidate-driven job market.
A new way to control health cost
Thanks to an internal platform that monitors plan activity and a knack for risk pooling clients such as schools, the Pennsylvania brokerage acts swiftly to adjust health plan strategy
