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What do workers want? That's one of the underlying questions in many of the webinars I've attended this year. That search for answers, for employers as well as the benefits and retirement industry, is in part what propels product development. Here are some recent announcements.
OneAmerica announced OneConnectSM, a retirement plan for businesses seeking to gain the scale that comes with a pooled or multiple-employer approach. OneAmerica provides 3(16) administrative fiduciary services including plan interpretation, eligibility determination, vesting calculations, and more.
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Lincoln Financial Group announced the launch of a pooled employer plan, OpenPEP, in collaboration with NPPG Plan Professionals, an affiliate of National Professional Planning Group and Morningstar Investment Management, a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. Employers can personalize their plan with customized plan design options and qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs).
Health-E Commerce launched a new deadline alerts feature to its FSAstore.com. By signing up for deadline alerts, account holders will be notified of special promotions and new arrivals and receive a series of deadline alerts delivered via email that will count down to their individual deadline.
Guided Choice, a digital retirement advisor, launched its personal financial advice app, 3Nickels. The app, which offers financial advisory tools to help individuals and families work toward financial independence across all aspects of personal finance, is now available for download.
Green Circle Life, provider of the communication and engagement platform SmartFHR, launched the Covid Passport. The Covid Passport is accessible to employees via an app and the web.They can record their vaccination status and store their vaccination card. The app also allows the option for employees to manage their vaccination exemption and take a daily Covid risk assessment questionnaire.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Ascensus announced the launch of Goldman Sachs Workplace Retirement Solution, which provides an integrated 401(k) or ERISA 403(b) retirement program aiming to support the needs of small and mid-sized businesses.The solution allows businesses and retirement plan advisors access to a digital advisory service, a digital financial wellness solution, an open-architecture recordkeeping platform, recordkeeping pricing with flexible service models.
Even, a financial benefits platform, announced it has added real-time payments (RTP) from J.P. Morgan to its platform. Members can access wages through digital instant disbursement options which include Push to Card and now RTP.
Centivo, a health plan for self-funded employers, launched its integrated virtual advanced primary care (VPC) offering. Centivo VPC allows members to regularly see the same primary care physician in a virtual setting. It is currently offered to client employers and their employees in Florida, with expansion into other Centivo markets through the first half of 2022.
BPAS, a provider of retirement plans, benefit plans, fund administration, and collective investment trusts, has launched a fraud prevention tool. With BPAStify, a participant requesting certain assistance through the Participant Service Center or other means may require additional scrutiny using a live video identity verification process. When complete, the recording will be shared with the client's HR team, who will verify that the caller is truly the employee in question and provide approval to BPAS.
Alight announced Alight Verify, a COVID vaccine certification tool. Employees enter their vaccine data and upload vaccination cards to the Alight platform. Employers get real-time analytics and can also apply credits and surcharges into the enrollment cycle, wellbeing programs or through payroll.
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