Break from the Grind June 22, 2016

SURVEY SAYS: Did you start your career in the retirement services industry?

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For example, one guy started out as a chemical engineer and moved around until becoming chief finance officer. My first job out of graduate school was as a math instructor at a university in Virginia.

This week, I’d like to know, did you start your career in the retirement industry? If your path was unusual or unexpected, we’d love to hear your story.

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You may respond to this week’s survey by 6 p.m. Pacific time today at https://www.research.net/r/ZPZ6HRJ.
Products June 22, 2016

ABGFS Offers Clients Liazon’s Bright Choices Exchange

Bright Choices helps employers save money on their health care costs by setting predictable budgets—while allowing employees to personalize their benefits package with a selection of health, dental, vision, life, disability, and other benefits.
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Alliance Benefit Group Financial Services, Corp. (ABGFS) has partnered with Liazon to offer its clients Liazon’s Bright Choices Exchange.

Bright Choices is an online benefits store that aims to change the way employers and employees buy benefits. It helps employers save money on their health care costs by setting predictable budgets, while also allowing employees to personalize their benefits package with a selection of health, dental, vision, life, disability, and other benefits from national and regional providers.                

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Cloud computing infrastructure and security protection ensures continual access and safeguards confidentiality of data transmission. Decision support and education helps employees make smarter benefits selections.

“The addition of Bright Choices to our allmybenefits program has brought much needed simplicity to the complexity of benefits for both employees and employers,” says Bradley K. Arends, CEO of ABGFS. “The allmybenefits program now includes a fully comprehensive employee benefits package, providing the education, aggregation, automation, and a shopping experience rich in choice for sponsors and their participants, which is a rare but crucial combination to succeed in today’s environment of employee benefit costs and regulations.”

Arends adds, “The convergence of health and retirement and our unique allmybenefits approach, combined with the Bright Choices Exchange and our allmymoney financial wellness app for participants, offers employers a new, contemporary way to efficiently and affordably deliver employee benefit programs that can be customized by each employee.”

More information about the allmybenefits program is available at www.allmybenefits.com.

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