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Employee Well-Being

Flu FAQs

Flu season is quickly approaching and with it, many questions and concerns about its interaction with COVID-19. As the pandemic continues, U.S. health officials fear the overlap of the two viruses could further worsen public...
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Retirement

4 Retirement Planning Mistakes to Avoid

Saving for retirement is an essential part of everyone’s financial foundation. Unfortunately, many Americans fail to save for retirement when other financial priorities like raising a family, medical bills and starting a business come up...
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Benefits Employee Well-Being

Get out your Umbrella!

If you’ve filled a prescription recently, you were probably shocked by the price tag.
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Benefits

13 Popular Flu Season Myths: Fact or Fiction?

Every year when flu season begins, rumors begin flying and old myths pop back up. We are here to help you recognize what's fact and what is fiction.
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Compliance

Building and Maintaining a Risk Assessment Program

Businesses of all sizes should prioritize developing and implementing a risk management program to protect themselves, directors, officers, and subsidiaries.
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PEO Industry

Third Quarter Market Wrap-up from John Slavic

For more than a year, the markets have been fueled by low interest rates, quantitative easing (the Federal Reserve injecting money into the economy), and stimulus and relief legislation from the Federal government aimed at...
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Thought Leadership

Benefits to Empower Working Mothers

We have all recognized and experienced the difficulties of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the more vulnerable employee populations has been working mothers.
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Thought Leadership

Another Virtual Open Enrollment – Keep it Simple, but Significant

It’s that time of year when employers are making decisions to their employee benefit renewals. Due to the recent developments with COVID-19, there will most likely be another virtual open enrollment meeting for the team.
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Employee Well-Being

Deferred Care: Why Americans Are Due for a Checkup

It’s very likely that in the last year, you postponed a medical appointment. It’s also very likely that it had something to do with COVID-19.
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Employee Well-Being Retirement

6 Podcasts for Financial Wellness

Whether you’re creating a budget, saving for retirement, establishing a debt payoff plan, or sending your child to college, everyone can learn a thing or two when there are financial experts at your fingertips.
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Thought Leadership Benefits

Importance of Health Advocacy

You’re wrapping up your annual physical when the doctor says she found a slight irregularity with your heartbeat and wants you to get an ECG. She refers you to a local cardiologist. You get the...
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Benefits Thought Leadership

HMO vs PPO: How to Pick Your Health Insurance Plan

The majority of people who have health care insurance obtain it through their employers during open enrollment, though only a small minority understands the complexities of insurance well enough to feel like they made an...
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Benefits Thought Leadership

What is Open Enrollment?

Whether you get insurance through work, Medicare, or the individual market, open enrollment is the one period of time each year when you can change your health insurance coverage without a qualifying event...
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Benefits

Part 2: Six Things You Should Do to Prepare for Benefits Renewal

As the end of the year approaches, we know it can be overwhelming as a business owner to navigate the different requirements, timelines, and benefit options without HR expertise. In last week’s blog, we examined...
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Benefits

Part 1: Six Things You Should Do to Prepare Benefits Renewal

If you are like most small businesses, your benefits renewal is coming up. As an employer, you want to offer your hard-working employees the benefits they want, but if you are a small business, it...
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Thought Leadership

How Market Conditions Affect Your 401(k)

Now may be a good time to look back a few months just to gain a better long-term perspective. The market has been trading in a range for the last several months hovering at or...
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Benefits Thought Leadership

Employee Benefits Expectations Have Changed. Are You Meeting Them?

Employee expectations of what they want from their employer have dramatically changed in part due to COVID-19. The workplace we know has changed, and what employers offer for benefits must keep up with the changing...
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Benefits

PART 2: Four Things to Know Before Renewing Your Employee Benefits Plan

Last week in part one of Four Things to Know Before Renewing Your Employee Benefits Plan we relayed that it IS possible to reduce benefits plan costs and support employee health (both physical and mental)...
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Benefits

PART 1: Four Things to Know Before Renewing Your Employee Benefits Plan

Oh, what a difference a year and a half makes. At this point in 2019, unemployment rates were at an all-time low, and businesses were doing whatever they could to compete for talent. With unemployment...
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Employee Well-Being

Health Meets Wealth: The ROI of Investing in Employee Well-Being

It’s time to invest in employees’ well-being. If you haven’t started doing so already, your bottom line is taking a hit. Nearly 40% of employees say their mental health has been negatively impacted by the...
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Employee Well-Being

3 Strategies to Boost Your Employee Wellbeing Program

Employers are becoming even more aware of the benefits of incorporating corporate wellbeing programming in their overall employee engagement strategies. It is no surprise that happier and healthier people can perform better work – and...
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Benefits

Why On-Demand Pay is the Most In-Demand Benefit

Crossing your fingers for payday to come before your bill’s due date is not a way to live. But for many Americans, it’s a frustrating reality. 78% of U.S. employees live paycheck to paycheck, including those...
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PEO Industry

What Does Co-Employment With a PEO Mean?

Financial Services Companies have the potential to transform their business by outsourcing the heaviest HR burdens to a Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”). When RIAs, asset management, and fund companies work with a PEO, they enter...
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Thought Leadership

OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT: 10 Reasons Why Using Spreadsheets to Manage Cap Tables is a Bad Idea

Capitalization tables (or cap tables) provide an analysis of a company’s percentages of ownership, equity dilution, and value of equity in each round of investment by founders, investors, and other owners. Developing a cap table...
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Thought Leadership

How the Tight Labor Market Affects Profitability

We know that the key to creating a successful company is to hire and develop a skilled and highly-engaged workforce. As the labor market continues to tighten up, it has become even more challenging to...
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Compliance

7 Key Compliance Tips to Implement in Your Hiring Process

Hiring great employees gives companies an edge over their competition but can also be challenging when candidates outnumber the jobs available. The challenging part of hiring equates to time filtering candidates, interviewing, and hiring decisions...
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Thought Leadership

White House Issues Ransomware Prevention Guidance to Businesses

In a recent letter addressed to corporate executives and business leaders, the White House emphasized that bolstering the nation’s resilience against cyberattacks is a main priority for President Joe Biden’s administration. Specifically, as ransomware attacks...
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Compliance

Is an Outsourced Compliance Provider Appropriate for Your Firm?

The SEC’s Director of Examinations[1] recently reiterated the critical role that Chief Compliance Officers (“CCO”) play for both investment advisers and investment companies. The SEC’s language together with previous SEC guidance focused on outsourced CCOs...
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Employee Well-Being

Returning to the Office: What Precautions Should Employers Take?

Covid-19 has changed the way we work and interact with others. While many alternative investment funds and financial services firms have opted to work remotely many are now considering returning to the office- a decision...
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Thought Leadership

Five Key Considerations Before Terminating an Employee

Terminating an employee is never easy, and often, the events leading up to the termination are not either. An employee who once was a competent hire has become a problem for your company. Terminating the...
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