Tune in today at 3:00 PM to an online forum addressing lessons learned to improve profitability. Also find out how you can become EBA's 2008 Adviser of the Year and see where things stand with our "best" group vision rep contest. Nominations for both are now being accepted!
Would you like to be Employee Benefit Adviser's 2008 Adviser of the year? Of course you would! The honor comes with a cover story on you and your company in the September issue of EBA, as well as complimentary conference admission to the 21st annual Benefits Forum and Expo -- the largest event in the nation solely dedicated to employee benefits -- where you will receive your award before benefit managers, HR executives and your fellow advisers.
Millions of workers are suffering from pain at the pump. So what's an employer to do? Some say it's not an employer's responsibility, other say it is. Listen in this Friday (June 20 at 1:00 p.m. EST) as we wrestle with the issue in another installment of our occasional discussion series, "The Friday Fray."
The majority of workers (58%) and retirees (60%) believe that the United States is already in a recession and have reacted accordingly by becoming increasingly concerned with job security and by curtailing spending, according to the Principal Financial Group's Well-Being Index.
The majority of workers (58%) and retirees (60%) believe that the United States is already in a recession and have reacted accordingly by becoming increasingly concerned with job security and by curtailing spending, according to the Principal Financial Group's Well-Being Index.
How? Nominate yourself or a colleague for EBA's 2nd annual Employee Benefit Adviser of the Year award. Don't hesitate. Take some time and fill out the nomination form today. It's the premiere award for our industry. While it is often imitated, it cannot be duplicated.
Insurance brokerage giant Willis Group will buy Hilb Rogal & Hobbs (HRH), the United States' eighth-largest broker, for $2.1 billion, representatives of the brokerages announced Sunday.
EBA's annual broker survey closes today and we need your help! We are surveying the benefits universe to find out how advisers are running their businesses, what products they think are hot and how they reach out to employers -- then, we're passing the benchmarking data on to you, so you can use that information to take your business to the next level.
We are surveying the benefits universe to find out how advisers are running their businesses, what products they think are hot and how they reach out to employers -- then, we're passing the benchmarking data on to you, so you can use that information to take your business to the next level.
Chances are you stick to your knitting, marketing a core group of products and services to your clients. If so, you are not satisfying all of your client's needs, either. Then who is?
We're kind of, sort of in a recession -- that seems to be the zeitgeist given the responses we received to last week's survey. In it we asked readers: Are we officially in a recession and if so what the heck can a good benefit adviser do about it?
Last week we asked readers to give us some insight on which way benefit brokers lean when it comes to politics. It appears that advisers lean Republican, but at what price?
Employers striving for a more productive workforce may want to begin their mission in the cafeteria. Employees with balanced diets have 10 times more energy, compared to workers with poor dietary habits, reports ComPsych Corp. in its 2008 Health & Productivity Index.
Republican and Democratic voters have displayed differing views on the nation's health care problems in the primaries, says the New England Journal of Medicine?s report, Health Care in the 2008 Presidential Primaries.
How can advisers help their clients improve business processes in the HR department? By supporting high-tech solutions that help their people be their best. Human resource executives have consistently ranked technology and systems implementation as their top priority in HR service delivery. In 2008, however, employers report that their talent agenda is taking center stage.
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