After transitioning most of their workforces to operate remotely for the past year, businesses now face the decision of if and when to have employees return to offices. Before jumping full bore into an ongoing remote workforce situation, there are critical factors to be considered when it comes to employee benefits.

We all know that a balanced investment portfolio includes equities, bonds and cash equivalents. However, stable value funds, a good alternative to cash equivalents, are often overlooked. With advantages for a plan participant’s overall investment choices and contributions to their income generation strategy, stable value funds boast both long-term stability and guaranteed returns, which in…

It is hard to look at any event that occurred during 2020 without it being wholly subsumed by the sheer gravity of the year itself. Still, much did happen while we engaged that other shared experience. For Sustainable Investing, 2020 may in fact prove to be a turning point… when the ESG phenomenon became mainstream.

While unemployment among all groups of workers increased sharply in the COVID-19 recession, part-time workers are amongst the hardest hit. And although the U.S. economy is slowly coming back to life, the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.

Traditionally, HR departments have led the management of employee leave and paid leave policies, however, the onset of the pandemic changed all that. In addition to employers quickly pivoting to remote work, a significant number found themselves having to address their employees’ need to take extended leave due to COVID-19 –either because they were ill…