The SEC awarded more than $30 million to a whistle-blower in its largest payout from a program started in 2011 to encourage people to come forward with evidence of securities fraud.

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $5 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims that its brokerage unit failed to prevent an employee from trading on nonpublic information related to the 2010 acquisition of Burger King Holdings Inc.

With the first of the year on hand, many benefits professionals will be making the business equivalent of New Years resolutions: a business plan.

Why do knowledge, integrity and stability matter and whats so important about listening to the client?

Producers too often run their business without letting their teammates know whats important. Everyone may have a general sense of the mission, but not on what they need to do to make it happen.

Why is it that 16-year-olds can be taught to sell acres of deep fried potatoes to hamburger buyers, but many sales professionals find it difficult to even suggest to a health insurance client they might want to consider dental coverage or group life or disability?

Health care reform is bringing dramatic changes to our industry, our profession and our businesses. No breaking news there.

Being first is rarely necessarily and not always a good idea. What matters is not having the latest technology, but rather having the right technology.