Benefits & Compensation Digest, a Foundation member service, is a monthly magazine that addresses benefit and compensation issues affecting multiemployer, single employer and public employee plan representatives. Health care, retirement and other related trends are addressed. Authors are experienced professionals in the employee benefits and compensation field. It also includes Legal & Legislative Reporter. The Benefits & Compensation Digest is available by subscription.
Featured Article
Seven Pillars of Investment Wisdom by Brad Case
Often using a comparison between publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and private equity real estate funds, the author points out some of the pitfalls of portfolio allocation strategy. He discusses seven aspects of investing that pension and benefit fund plan sponsors should be mindful of as they rebuild the value of portfolios—and beneficiaries’ faith in their plans.
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- Avoiding a Head-on Collision With the Cadillac Tax
- Protecting Funds From Unreimbursable Future Medical Costs
- Health Care Reform Increases Risks of Fiduciary Liability
- Solving the Medication Adherence Puzzle
- How Employers Are Bending the Cost Curve
- Fair Value Disclosures—Tell Me More
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- The Fiduciary Responsibility of Appointing Entities to Train, Monitor and Remove Trustees
- The Fiduciary Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege
- Do Wellness Programs Really Work?
- Practical Tips for Implementing Health Reform
- Tapping Technology to Adapt to Changing Benefits Landscape
- Common Misconceptions in Employee Rewards Management
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- A Legacy of Health and Wellness
- Connecting the Dots Between Wellness and Elder Care
- Best Practices in Communicating Health Care Payment Card Programs
- LTCI Can Be Wise Buy for Midsize Employers
- Managing Risk in a Multiemplyer Plan: New Strategies for New Times
- Making Hard Choices as a Trustee
- Peer To Peer: Challenges for Trustees--Delayed Retirement
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- A Plan Sponsor’s Guide for Collecting Withdrawal Liability
- The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
- Peer to Peer: Challenges for Trustees—Preparing for Changes in Health Care
- PPO Repricers: The EDI Perspective
- Workplace Retirement Education Gets Fresh Look
- The Rules of Reducing Salaries: Tips to Consider Before Implementing Pay Cuts
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- Pay for Performance for Patients: Evidence and the Road Ahead
- PBM Contract Must Haves
- Peer to Peer: Challenges for Trustees—Prescription Drug Use
- Update on Trustee Expenses
- Ten Ways to Cut Costs, Improve... Health and Welfare Benefits... Retirement Plan Benefits
- Commuter Benefit Users Enjoying Twice the Savings—But They Might Not Last
- Trends in Public Employee Plans: Survey Results 2010
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- Taming Out-of-Control Specialty Pharmaceutical Costs
- Trends in Fiduciary Liability Coverage
- Peer to Peer: Challenges for Trustees—Identity Theft and Fraud
- The Seven Pillars of Investment Wisdom
- Informed CSRs Help Educate Plan Participants
- Top Trends in Voluntary Benefits: Survey Results
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- Don’t Be Blindsided Again: Advice From the Economist Who Called It
- Realities of Active Investment Management
- Health Care Provider Reimbursement: A Better Way to Determine What’s Fair?
- Fair Value 101—The ABCs of ASC 820
- Peer to Peer: Challenges for Trustees—Proactive Governmental Action
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- A Look at the Emerging Markets
- New Fiduciary Considerations for U.S. Public and Private Pension Plan Governance—A Look at New OECD Guidelines
- Know Your Numbers Wellness Program
- Easing the Burden of Cancer Through Prevention, Early Detection
- Doing More With Less—Can TPBAs Help?
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- Using Business Intelligence to Build Optimal Decision Support
- Pharmacy Benefit Carve-In: The Right Prescription for Cost Savings
- Get Your Workforce in Top Shape
- Pension Sustainability—The Wisconsin Example
- Top Trends in Jointly Managed Apprenticeship Programs: Survey Results
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- Do the Downshift: A Win-Win Workforce Strategy
- Heating or Eating? Difficult Choices for Trustees of Multiemployer Retirement Plans
- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
- Case a Wake-Up Call on COBRA Coverage
- An SAS 70 Primer for a Taft-Hartley Audience
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