Week ending August 25th, 2017

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Happy Friday, readers! This weekend’s mailing focuses on the topic of Health Care and Other Benefits that remain top-of-mind for plan sponsor clients. Our adviser readers may focus on 401(k) plans and pensions, but the stories below demonstrate the important intersections of health and wealth.

Health Care and Other Benefits

Couples’ Retirement Health Care Cost Projections Approach $300K

One Fidelity benefits consulting executive describes the inflation in retiree health care expenses as insidious and unrelenting. Read more >

Fiduciary Reforms Will Impact Expanding HSA Market

The DOL fiduciary rule expansion establishes ERISA fair dealing requirements in the sale and service of health savings accounts; employers have a lot of questions about what this means. Read more >

Benefits Programs Integrating Health and Financial Wellness

Providers are redesigning benefits programs to focus on health, financial wellness, job satisfaction and productivity. Read more >

Majority of Small Businesses Do Not Offer Retirement, Health Benefits

Seventeen percent of respondents to a survey by Paychex said they did not see the need to offer retirement benefits to their employees. Read more >

Sponsors Think ‘Rothification’ of 401(k)s Would Deter Participation

This is according to a survey by the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets Inc. of its members. Read more >

Student Loan Assistance Trumps 401ks for Many Employees

However, the CEO of IonTuition says employees need to take a balanced approach to plan for their future and deal with immediate needs at the same time. Read more >

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Stimulus Bill Extends Some Provisions of the CARES Act

It also provides a way for retirement plan sponsors to avoid a partial plan termination.

Practice Management: Areas of Success

A look at what worked particularly well in 2020 and that could keep propelling growth in 2021.

HUB Names New Leader for Retirement and Private Wealth

PLANADVISER has learned that HUB International has named Joe DeNoyior as the new leader for Retirement and Private Wealth.

Democrats Have Won the Power to Fix Union Pensions

A bipartisan compromise solution to end the multiemployer pension crisis is urgently required, sources agree, and one could finally be forthcoming in the U.S. Congress.

Retirement Plan Trustee Faces Cybersecurity-Related Lawsuit

The lawsuit says the trustee failed to prevent a fraudulent distribution from a participant's account and is failing to take responsibility.

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