Blogs

CFPB focuses on senior designations

By Rich White | May 16, 2013

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took aim at the one area in the investment/insurance world where Dodd-Frank law granted it jurisdiction – issues affecting older Americans.
“Star Trek” premiere and the problem with “fiduciary”

By Chris Carosa | May 16, 2013

If being a fiduciary is all about building trust, what happens when no one trusts the word fiduciary?
What my mother taught me about health care

By Kathryn Mayer | May 15, 2013

I could report and write about health care all day long—which, oh yea, I do—but my cancer survivor mother has taught me more about it than anyone else.
“Yeah, I’m the taxman”

By Denis Storey | May 15, 2013

As if the Internal Revenue Service weren’t bad enough before …
Consumer-directed benefits: The affordable in Affordable Care

By Jody Dietel | May 15, 2013

“Traditional” health care benefits vs. consumer-directed benefits—that is the question.
Employers getting pushy in drive to better health

By Allen Greenberg | May 14, 2013

Short of bribery and potentially violating anti-discrimination laws by not hiring obese smokers, there’s little employers can do to improve the health of their workforce. Or is there?
Don't ignore disability insurance

By Bruce Hentschel | May 13, 2013

According to the Social Security Administration, 30 percent of people will encounter a disability of three months or longer at some point during their working years. If that happened to you, could you afford life without a paycheck?
A retirement plan of a different color

By Jerry Ripperger | May 10, 2013

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." -- Henry Ford.
Expanding plan coverage to part-time workers

By Jonathan Anderson | May 10, 2013

The ability to participate in a 401(k) plan should be extended to part-time employees, so that more U.S. workers can be better financially prepared at retirement.
The problem with mail-order prescriptions

By Jason Wallace | May 10, 2013

Increasingly, both private and public sector groups are beginning to take a careful look at the practices of pharmacy benefits managers as employers and taxpayers become curious about massive PBM profits and unclear contracts.