Employee Benefits Blog Post

Defined Contribution Fundamentals: 3 Key Areas Defined contribution plans are a great place to save for retirement. In fact, it’s what they’re designed for.   Different types of defined contribution plans are plans that receive special tax treatment from the IRS to incentivize people to save money for the long-term. [...]

Regulatory Update on ESG Investing in Retirement Plans With the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) recent release of proposed regulations, it’s time to revisit environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.   In short, here’s what you really need to know:    Consideration of ESG factors is permissible (and seems to be [...]

Financial Coaching for Employees Should I bring financial coaching to my company for my employees? I humbly believe the answer is yes. Why? Let’s dig in.   Eighty percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck (The Washington Post.) Financial stress costs companies half a trillion dollars a year (Forbes.) [...]

Why Financial Wellness is More than a 401(k) and How to Effectively Support your Employees Financial wellness is more than the annual 401(k) enrollment meeting, and you know it.  Or, maybe you don’t. I wish we could offer a 401(k) to employees and have them become financially successful by osmosis.  [...]

Wellness at Work: How to Provide Your Employees with What They Want and Need Providing wellness at work hasn’t always been a best practice, but it is today.   I’ve spent the last 20 years working with organizations on their wellness benefits and have always advocated for an integrated approach. [...]

Common Financial Sense with Harris Nydick and Greg Makowski On this show, we talked about how focusing on the aspects of your financial life that are within your control and taking a common-sense approach will help position you for long-term success with Harris Nydick and Greg Makowski, CoFounders of CFS [...]

Make the Most of Your Workplace Wellness Dollars Make the Most of Your Workplace Wellness Dollars Employee wellness is essential to business and organizational success. Beyond medical costs, healthy employees are more productive, deliver optimal performance, have less stress, and overall better quality of life. 89% of workers at companies [...]