Vanguard, Mercer roll out new retiree health care cost model

Reframing the conversation of retiree health care costs from overall lump-sum to annual costs is key.

By Nick Thornton | June 20, 2018 at 05:39 PM

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A less intimidating approach

Drilling down on the numbers

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Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.

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