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Benefit: something that improves the profitability or efficiency of an organization or reduces its risk, or any nonmonetary reward given to employees, for example, paid vacations or employer contributions to pensions; Benefit definition on BNET »

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Planning to Enter a Foreign Market: Foreign markets can be very attractive to a business looking for new customers, especially when its home market is becoming saturated. Such an expansion, however, needs to be thoroughly researched and carefully planned to ensure that the timing is right. To begin with, a business needs to have successful products...; Tags: Vertical industries, BNET Editorial, government, inflation, employee benefit, tax, analysis, interest rate, knowledge, board, agreement, financial, marketing, benefit, environment, partnership; Articles 2007-10-19
How to lower cost of employee benefits.(VIEWPOINT): Controlling benefit costs over the past 10 years has been difficult, if not impossible. Health-care premiums have gone up 11.3 percent on average in 2005 alone. Employers have traditionally isolated their health-care cost control, but recently have b Controlling benefit costs over the past 10 years...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, health care, Human Resources; Research articles 2005-09-05
Employee Benefits that Work: The Principal Financial Group Rolls Out Revolutionary New Worksite Voluntary Benefit Program: DES MOINES, Iowa -- Personalized benefit assistance at the workplace helps employees ease anxiety, prepare for the future; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, Principal Financial Group; Research articles 2005-08-29
American Fidelity Assurance Company: enhance employee benefits at little or no cost.: Q. What are the three most difficult benefit challenges faced by companies today? Q. What are the three most difficult benefit challenges faced by companies today?; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, Fidelity Investments; Research articles 2002-12-01
Employee benefit execs ; grade benefits reporting.(Harris Interactive Inc. report)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): The media are neither fair nor accurate when it comes to covering employee benefit issues, according to a new survey of benefit managers. Sixty-one percent of 200 benefit managers surveyed by pollsters Harris Interactive Inc. of New York for the Am The media are...; Tags: benefit, benefit plan, employee benefit, media, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2000-10-02

Products & Services; AIG unit introduces new benefit products.(News)(American International Group Inc): NEPTUNE, N.J.-AIG American General, the domestic life insurance operations of American International Group Inc., has launched a set of employee benefit products for small and midsize companies. The program is marketed by AIG Employee Benefits and f NEPTUNE, N.J.-AIG American General, the domestic life...; Tags: American International Group Inc., benefit, CIGNA Corp., employee benefit, health care; Research articles 2005-03-14
[T] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(The P&I 1,000): Target Corp. ($ millions) Total assets 3,945 Defined benefit 966 Defined contribution 2,979 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 150 Benefit payments 47 Asset mix: ...; Tags: asset, benefit, benefit plan, Blackstone Group, contribution, defined contribution plan, employee benefit, equity, investment, Pimco, Putnam, stock, TRW; Research articles 2003-01-20
What women want: savvy employers know a rich benefits package can help attract and retain a key demographic: midcareer women.(Life: Selling Insight)(MetLife Study of Employee Benefits Trends): When it comes to offering benefits, employers' top objective is to retain employees--not control costs--according to the 5th annual MetLife Study of Employee Benefits Trends. When it comes to offering benefits, employers' top objective is to retain employees--not control costs--according to the 5th annual...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, MetLife Inc., women; Research articles 2007-10-01
MetLife Open Enrollment Trends Survey Signals Desire for Employee Benefits for "People-Like-Me": NEW YORK -- According to MetLife's 2007 Open Enrollment Trends Survey, released today, employees are interested in receiving information geared toward their life stage - i.e. "people like me" - on what kinds of benefits to select during their company's open enrollment period. Six out of 10 (59%) employees would...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, MetLife Inc.; Research articles 2007-10-02
Fifty firms offer partner benefits: Hewitt study.(Hewitt Associates): Extension of employee benefits to same-sex and unmarried domestic partners by corporations and municipalities is in a "very embryonic," though burgeoning, stage of development, according to a representative of Hewitt Associates, which recentlExtension of employee benefits to same-sex and unmarried domestic partners by corporations and municipalities...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, Hewitt Associates LLC, municipality; Research articles 1995-04-24
[G] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(P&I 1,000): General Dynamics Corp. ($ millions) Total assets 8,673 Defined benefit 5,110 Defined contribution 3,563 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 4 Benefit payments 290 Asset mix:...; Tags: asset, benefit, benefit plan, contribution, employee benefit, equity, fixed income, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., stock; Research articles 2003-01-20
Progress in doubt ; Leadership at odds.(employee benefit regulation): WASHINGTON-Gridlock on employee benefit issues has been the norm on Capitol Hill for several months, with Republican and Democratic leadership barely speaking to one another. Regardless of which presidential candidate-Texas Gov. George W. Bush or WASHINGTON-Gridlock on employee benefit issues has been...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, health care, leadership, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2000-11-13
Health care cost management still top priority; Despite lower hikes, employers struggle to contain increases.(Spotlight: Year in Review: Employee Benefits): Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Despite moderation in medical price increases, managing the still-rising cost of health care benefits has been the biggest challenge for benefit managers in 2006. While shifting costs via plan design changes has become st Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ ...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, health care, Reed Elsevier Inc.; Research articles 2006-12-25
When It Comes to Employee Benefits, U.S. Small Businesses Are Coming of Age; Sharp Increase in Demand for Voluntary Benefits; Higher than Average Rates of Employee Loyalty, Satisfaction: NEW YORK -- Stereotypes to the contrary, today's small businesses have caught up with - and in some cases, outpaced - their larger peers when it comes to the quality and diversity of employee benefits offerings. According to MetLife's recently released Employee Benefits Trend Study, more than one-third (34%) of...; Tags: benefit, employee benefit, Sharp Corp., small business; Research articles 2005-06-27
[U] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(Statistical Data Included): UAL Corp. ($ millions) Total assets 11,600 Defined benefit 7,300 Defined contribution 4,300 * DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer contributions 230 Benefit payments 435 CHICAGO - As...; Tags: asset, benefit, benefit plan, contribution, defined contribution plan, employee benefit, equity, Fidelity Investments, investment, Putnam; Research articles 2002-01-25
[S] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(various companies and their pension funds)(Statistical Data Included): San Francisco City & County Employees' Retirement System ($ millions) Total assets 11,230 Defined benefit 10,426 Defined contribution 804 * DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer contributions ...; Tags: asset, benefit, benefit plan, contribution, defined contribution plan, employee benefit, equity, Fidelity Investments, fixed income, investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., pension fund, stock; Research articles 2002-01-21
[T] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(Statistical Data Included): Teamsters, Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund ($ millions) Total assets 17,359 Defined benefit 17,359 * DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer contributions 1,130 Benefit payments 2,028 Asset...; Tags: asset, benefit, benefit plan, contribution, defined contribution plan, employee benefit, equity, Fidelity Investments, investment, PIMCO, Putnam, stock; Research articles 2002-01-25
[C] Profiles of the Top 200 Pension Funds.(The P&I 1,000)(alphabetical listing includes California Public Employees' Retirement System through Cook County Employees' Annuity & Benefit Fund)(Illustration): California Public Employees' Retirement System ($ millions) Total assets 128,678 Defined benefit 128,461 Defined contribution 217 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 322 Benefit payments 5,793 ...; Tags: annuity, asset, benefit, benefit plan, Blackstone, C, contribution, defined contribution plan, employee benefit, equity, investment, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, private equity, real estate, stock; Research articles 2003-01-20
New CEA Employee Benefit Helps Environment, Encourages Home Ownership and Reduces Commuting Time: Unprecedented Offering Gives Monetary Assistance to Employees Moving Closer to Office; Tags: benefit, Consumer Electronics Association, employee benefit, environment; Research articles 2008-02-27
Benefits consulting: end of reg. compliance era. (now that most employers have complied with employee benefits regulations called for by Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, benefits consultants are facing a work slowdown and are retained mostly to hel: Helping clients deal with soaring employee health-care costs, demanding federal accounting standards and advances in technology could be the benefit consulting industry's bread and butter during the 1990s, as consultants face an uncertain economic fu Helping clients deal with soaring employee health-care costs, demanding federal...; Tags: benefit, compensation, compliance, employee benefit, health care, Hewitt Associates LLC; Research articles 1992-05-18