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Given that hedge funds and hedging are so much in the news, I began to think about the ways a company can hedge its employee benefit costs.

The tenuous market conditions and slow economic recovery in which todays brokers and consultants operate is only the beginning of their challenges. Healthcare reform presents another major change on the horizon.

Typical workers would get an extra $1,500 in their paychecks next year under a plan by President Barack Obama to expand a payroll tax cut that is scheduled expire at the end of the year. Higher paid workers would get more, and businesses would get tax breaks, too.

President Barack Obama took the sales pitch for his newly unveiled jobs plan on the road Friday, venturing out of Washington and into the home turf of one of his top Republican antagonists. It was the first of many expected efforts by the president to rally public support for his...

U.S. stocks plunged Friday, threatening to erase the week's gains, as rising fears about fallout from Europe's debt crisis overshadowed President Barack Obama's plan to revive the U.S. job market.

Nonprofit organizations have increased hiring by 14 percent in August of 2011 compared to August of 2010, according to a survey by Idealist.org, a nonprofit job search engine.

According to a new Aflac survey, 77 percent of employed adults say they would leave their current positions for entrepreneurship opportunities.

Chief financial officers are anticipating more hiring during the fourth quarter of 2011, with 12 percent saying they plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees, according to the Robert Half Financial Hiring.