Benefits Selling Magazine April 2010
Cover Story
Brokers unite: 2010 health care survey
As health care reform faces an even more uncertain future, brokers have been given a second (tenuous) lease on life. Now what do they plan to do with it?
Feature Content
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Beyond cost control: Employers' top benefits-related concerns
Maintaining compliance, attracting and retaining employees, and fostering benefits understanding through better communications are all among employers' top two benefit-related concerns.
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Three tips for a better RFP process
Using auto and home insurance as an example - one of the fastest-growing and desired voluntary benefits - how will you improve upon the current RFP process, and ultimately bring higher overall satisfaction to your prospective clients?
Special Feature
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A crusade for wellness
Imagine if you could save your company money and boost employee morale, creativity, and performance
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On a mission: One man's crusade against benefits noncompliance
Dressing in costume was never in the job description. but Benefits attorney John Hickman takes his role seriously. and he likes it when people laugh at him.
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Don't go COBRA alone
To work in the arena of COBRA administration without good legal advice is like going into a pitch black room,
What's Next
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Putting their needs before ours: Enrollment techniques tailored to work
We need to get to the point that we are recommending enrollment processes because they do the best job of meeting client needs, not because they are simplest and least expensive for us.
Benefits Newswire
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American General launches flexible universal life product
American General Life Cos. (American General) launched a new universal life insurance product, ContinUL, issued by American General Life Insurance Co. and The United States Life Insurance Co. in the City of New York.
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The future of health benefits: A discussion
The Employee Benefit Research Institute held a policy forum last December in Washington, D.C. (where you'll hopefully be attending our expo this year).
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Workers overlook vision benefit
Almost half of American workers do not take full advantage of their vision benefit, according to a recent survey from Transitions Optical.
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Before and after that election
We had an opportunity to look at responses to the broker survey from before and after the Massachusetts senatorial election.
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401(k)s rebound in '09
Average 401(k) account balances ended 2009 at $64,200, up another 5.7 percent from the end of the third quarter and up 28 percent for the year, according to Fidelity Investments.
Exit Interview
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Shane Broderson
Shane Brodersen, VP of elective benefits, Aon Consulting
Beyond the Beltway
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Seeing the bigger picture: Retirement benefits for the long term
It is commonly acknowledged that an important virtue of defined benefit pension plans is the security they provide to pay promised retirement benefits regardless of market fluctuations.
On Second Thought
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Let's be honest about consumerism
I have a friend who recently started smoking.
Source List
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2010 Expo exhibitor source list
View exhibitors attending the 2010 Benefits Selling Expo.
Competitive Advantage
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An 'insider' view: Are lawmakers targeting all insurance abuse?
My long-standing friend in the business is a Chicago broker who happened to be an early backer and advisor in the late '90s to then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.
Employers Speak Out
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Median health care costs expected to increase
The continuing sluggish economy is forcing a growing number of large U.S. employers to take more aggressive measures to control rising health care costs and motivate workers to take charge of improving their own health.
Retirement Matters
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Turn on that light bulb: Education and retirement saving
Based upon these survey results and amplified by an estimate provided by the U.S. Census Department, it would seem education of plan participants and plan sponsors should be paramount.
Storeylines
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Killing anti-trust exemption won't fix health care
In politics - as in real life - there are no magic bullets. Solutions often come draped in as many complications as the problems they seek to address.
