Retirement benefits

Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual conference delved deep into innovative enrollment tips, employee engagement and hot workplace offerings.

Many seniors who succeeded in retirement set their sights on becoming millionaires while they were young.

Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual conference delved deep into innovative enrollment tips, employee engagement and hot workplace offerings.

The submission deadline has been extended for Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual awards recognizing excellence and leadership in the field.

Clients will be better off using the income allocation strategy than the asset allocation approach when building a retirement portfolio, an advisor says.

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Employers and employees both say programs are necessary to help manage debt and prepare for retirement, but participation still lags.

Employees are advised to start looking for coverage in the marketplace, which will be open for 2019 enrollment from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15.

Retirees may have gotten out of the workforce too early if they are not yet eligible to claim health coverage through Medicare.

Many workers are not financially stable and not prepared for retirement, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, resulting in an increase in onsite financial programs.

Employers looking to beef up retirement strategies must talk with lawmakers and adopt new strategies to create innovative ways to better prepare workers for post-work years.

Dividend income is taxed lower than interest yields. And for the federal taxes that apply, clients can take steps to minimize those as well.

Plan sponsors and advisers: “It is important to realize that three or four years from now, what is done today will be examined, and it needs to be done with a good standard of care and mitigation of conflicts of interest.”

Many workers are not financially stable and not prepared for retirement, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, resulting in an increase in onsite financial programs.

The new tax law lowers the tax rates for many investors, allowing clients to enhance tax savings on the converted amount.

Plan sponsors and advisers: “It is important to realize that three or four years from now, what is done today will be examined, and it needs to be done with a good standard of care and mitigation of conflicts of interest.”

Seniors need to be mindful of enrollment deadlines with Medicare.

Employee Benefit News’ annual Benny Awards recognize professionals who have demonstrated excellence in the employee benefits/human resources field.

As workers live longer, employers need to help them save for their post-work years.

Congress is considering a proposal that would allow small companies to create a multiple-employer retirement plan to enable their workers to build their nest eggs,