Products April 28, 2011

National Advisors Trust Selects EPIC to Partner in 401(k) Offering

April 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Advisors Trust announced an agreement with EPIC Advisors, Inc. to provide a branded 401(k) program with open-architecture and daily valuation services to its shareholder adviser firms.
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Ronald G. Ferguson, CEO of National Advisors Trust, said the firm selected EPIC for its private-label 401(k) program because of EPIC’s “proven capabilities in the retirement planning and recordkeeping fields, and their ability to apply the National Advisors Trust brand to their retirement plan platform.”  

Ferguson added: “Their open architecture investment offering provides the trust company’s RIAs the ability to select the best investment solutions for their retirement plan sponsor clients and participants. Working together, we now have the ability to provide our RIAs with a competitive, full service proprietary plan platform.”
Benefits April 28, 2011

Canadian Workers Say They Feel Guilty If They Call in Sick

April 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new CareerBuilder Canada survey finds that 66% of workers typically go to work when they are sick.
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Workplace pressures and “presenteeism” may be causing workers to go in under the weather, as more than 60% of workers said they feel guilty if they call in sick.  

According to a press release, nearly six-in-ten workers (58%) said they have gotten sick from a co-worker who came to the office sick, while 21% said they picked up a bug from someone who was sick on public transportation going to or from work.   

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Twelve percent of employees said their companies provided flu shots at their office. Twenty-eight percent said they were proactive and got a flu shot this year.   

Strategies workers cited for avoiding germs include: 

  • I wash my hands often – 76%; 
  • I regularly clean my keyboard, phone, desk, etc. – 29%; 
  • I carry hand sanitizer with me and use it often – 24%; 
  • I avoid shaking hands with people – 18%; and 
  • I skip meetings where I know people are sick – 4%. 

 

The survey was conducted online within Canada by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 550 Canadian workers (employed full-time; not self-employed; non-government) ages 18 and over between November 15 and December 2, 2010.

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