Findings show voluntary benefits strongly influence employee satisfaction, with an 82 percent employee satisfaction rate when voluntary benefits are offered at work.
Mercer's new "What's Working" survey, released Monday, found 32 percent of U.S. workers are "seriously considering" leaving their job. That's a sharp jump from 23 percent reported in 2005.
A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare took advantage of one or more recommended preventive benefits, now offered for free under health care reform.
AARP's CEO A. Barry Rand released a statement Friday, saying the group's position on Social Security hasn't changed, despite media reports that it no longer opposes cuts to Social Security benefits.
Total money market mutual fund assets fell $34.37 billion to $2.708 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
In an encouraging twist to recent reports on plunging retirement confidence, Charles Schwab’s latest quarterly retirement pulse survey, released Wednesday, shows more than half (54 percent) of Americans age 65 and older feel confident in their retirement readiness.
At last week’s Morningstar Investment Conference, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told a room full of journalists he’s not confident 401(k) participants have what it takes to be long-term investors. I’m paraphrasing, of course, but it seemed to be a common issue at that Chicago show.
According to a report released Tuesday by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, employers are changing the design of their benefit plans to accommodate the needs of not just older workers, but multiple generations.