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Benefits & Administration |
Nearly four in 10 (38%) large U.S. employers
with onsite health facilities plan to add new centers over the next two years,
according the Towers Watson 2015 Employer-Sponsored Health Care Centers Survey.
A majority of the 120 responding employers that already have onsite or
near-site health facilities, or are planning to implement them, share these
objectives for their centers: increase productivity (75%); reduce health care
costs (74%); and improve convenient employee access to health care services
(66%).Read more > |
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Products, Deals & People |
John Hancock Makes Move to Levelize Fees |
John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (JHRPS) is
entering into a new strategic, multi-phased development agreement with Vertical
Management Systems (VMS) of Pasadena, California. The goal of the strategic
partnership is to leverage VMS’s trust accounting and trading systems
expertise, applying their solutions and technology to bring participant revenue
levelization for a variety of investment vehicles—mutual funds, exchange-traded
funds (ETFs), collective investment trusts (CITs)—as a future option on the
John Hancock’s Total Retirement Solutions (TRS) recordkeeping platform.Read more > |
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Sponsored message from Aberdeen |
Frontier Market Bonds: The Next Chapter Learn why frontier markets strong growth dynamics, coupled with historically low correlations to U.S. Treasuries make a compelling case to diversify your fixed income approach with emerging and frontier market debt.Read more > |
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GAO Requests |
Survey on 401(k) Plans’ Use of Eligibility and Vesting
Requirements: Building savings in a 401(k) plan is a key step
to achieving income security in retirement for millions of Americans. That
savings may be affected by the eligibility and vesting requirements that are
used by many plans. This survey examines why plan sponsors use certain
eligibility and vesting requirements, how they may have changed the
requirements, and how they communicate them to employees and participants.Read more > |