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Health Savings Account (HSA) Goal Calculator

Are you looking at the Health Savings Account HSA as a retirement account? Do you have an amount in mind that you want to carry over into retirement? This tool will help you determine what you need to do in order to reach your goal.

Tags: Retirement, Health Savings Account, Health Care, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

Tools & templates 2008-01-01

How to be a Demographic Realist

There's an interesting article in strategy+business called "How to be a Demographic Realist" that presents some false assumptions about retirement -- something 21 percent of the global population will need to think about by 2100, as opposed to 7 percent now. It's probably not news to you that the burgeoning senior population faces some challenges...

Tags: Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financing, Retirement, Human Resources, Lori Deschene

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Funding Retiree Benefits Becomes More Challenging

Problems in financing retiree health benefits have been brought to a head with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. Most people will be covered by Medicare after retirement, but in the public sector and particularly in the public safety field, employees often retire before they are eligible for Medicare....

Tags: Retirement, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Medicare, Healthcare, Benefits, Human Resources

White papers 2006-03-30

Retirement Income Security: A Look at Social Security, Employment-Based Retirement Plans, and Health Savings Accounts

Various factors increasingly suggest that individuals who are trying to plan for a secure retirement face a gathering storm. About 100 participants in the Employee Benefit Research Institute's spring 2005 policy forum examined the different forces at work that threaten economic security in retirement, and heard ERBI researchers and others...

Tags: Retirement, Health Savings Account, Income, Health Care, Social Security, Benefits, Healthcare, 401(k), Operational Accounting, Retirement Plans, Government, Human Resources, Finance

White papers 2005-08-01

Retirement Plans.

HR should help employees start planning for retirement long before their final days on the job.Planning for retirement involves more than redistributing the assets in a 401k plan. To make the most of life after leaving the full-time workforce, experts say, employees should start long before their final days on...

Tags: Society For Human Resource Management, Retirement, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Asset Management, Workforce Management, Investment, Human Resources, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Operational Planning, Finance

White papers 2003-07-01

Health Costs & Benefit Worry

Employers regard the need to control rising health and welfare costs as the top priority for the fourth consecutive year. Meanwhile, employees say retirement and investment issues are the primary benefits concerns. Employee concerns over retirement planning continue to be important as a large percentage of the work force nears...

Tags: Retirement, CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2003-02-11

Retirement Stop Sign

Until few years ago, the clients and advisors decision to plan an early retirement rested on savings and wise investments. However, of late, another factor viz. ‘health care costs’ are resulting in early retirement plans by the clients. Clients believe that increasing health care costs would hamper the retirement planning;...

Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Health Care, Retirement

White papers 2003-01-01

Planning for Retirement: The Accuracy of Expected Retirement Dates and the Role of Health Shocks

This paper explores the relationship between expectations about retirement, realizations of retirement, and the role of health shocks. The paper examines the rationality of retirement expectations. Rational behavior is defined here as decision-making that is based on an underlying model with both economic and health constraints. The paper also looks...

Tags: Retirement, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2001-09-01

Retirement and Wealth

This paper analyzes the relationship between retirement and wealth. Using data from the first four waves of the longitudinal Health and Retirement Study - a cohort of individuals born from 1931 to 1941- reduced-form retirement and wealth equations are estimated. The results show that those who retire earlier do not...

Tags: Retirement, Thomson Corp., Social Security, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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Additional Resources

Employment Guide: Seniors in the Labor Force Enjoy More Than the Paycheck

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the share of the labor force aged 55 and older, currently at 17 percent, is rising rapidly and, by 2020, it is projected to be nearly 24 percent. The graying of the labor force can be attributed to many factors: longer life...

Articles 2008-08-18

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Selects the Principal Financial Group for Integrated Retirement Plan

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A world-class health care system has chosen the Principal Financial Group([R]), one of the nation's retirement leaders1, as the integrated retirement plan service provider for its defined contribution and nonqualified plans. The contracts for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System became effective March 1, 2008. ...

Articles 2008-08-04

Cantel Medical Announces Management Succession at Crosstex Healthcare Disposables Subsidiary

LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. announced management changes at its Crosstex International, Inc. subsidiary, effective today. As planned, Richard Allen Orofino, President and a former owner of Crosstex, retired effective today after over 50 years with Crosstex, including 3 years following Cantel's acquisition...

Articles 2008-08-01

MediSolution Introduces Staff Planning Module for Virtuo Human Capital Management Suite

MediSolution Ltd., (TSX: MSH) today announced the availability of an innovative staff planning module for its Virtuo Human Capital Management HCM Suite. The tool is fully compliant with the Quebec government's Gestion previsionnelle de la main-d'ouvre provincial guidelines that require healthcare centers to closely monitor staff movement through a series...

Articles 2008-07-31

As Cost of Living Increases, Boomers Look Abroad for New Homes

Long-Term Projected Rise in Healthcare and Gas Prices Have Boomers Looking to Mexico for Retirement LOS ANGELES -- An ever-increasing rise in the cost of living has Boomers concerned about life after work. In search of affordable healthcare, reasonable gas prices and a lifestyle comparable to home, retirees...

Articles 2008-07-30

Former Veterans Affairs Official Ronald Aument Joins Consulting Firm BearingPoint

New Appointment Will Help Drive Support for Warfighter and Veteran Healthcare Initiatives MCLEAN, Va. -- BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced the appointment of Ronald Aument as director and strategic advisor in BearingPoint's Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs...

Articles 2008-07-30

Business Roundtable Praises House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Advancement of Critical Health IT Bill

WASHINGTON -- Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of the Business Roundtable Consumer Health and Retirement Initiative and chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc., issued the following statement on today's review of the Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication Through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 (PROTECHT Act) by the House Energy...

Articles 2008-07-23

Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium Selects Best Doctors to Empower Employees to Get the Right Care

Best Doctors Inc., the trusted medical resourcefor ensuring individuals with serious illnesses have the right diagnosisand the right treatment, today announced that the Allegheny CountyPennsylvania Schools Health Insurance Consortium ACSHIC has selectedBest Doctors to help empower more than 20,000 school district employees,retirees and eligible family members to take...

Articles 2008-07-09

Plan Sponsors Honored for Improving Outcomes for Participants

Prudential Retirement Presents "Better Outcome" Awards NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) honored five plan sponsors for redesigning their defined contribution DC retirement programs to help plan participants achieve retirement goals. Faith Technologies Inc., VSP[R] Vision Care, Knauf Insulation, Rogers Corporation and the...

Articles 2008-07-08

ForteCEO Assists Ann's House of Nuts in Sale to Private Equity Firm

20-month ForteCEO consulting engagement culminates in successful exit for family-owned business that built a leadership position in the snack foods industry NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ForteCEO, a senior level consulting firm, today announced that private equity firm Olympus Partners has acquired a...

Articles 2008-07-08

Boomer Retirement Trends

Long Term Projected Rise in Healthcare, Gas Prices and Cost of Living Have Boomers Looking Abroad for Retirement LOS ANGELES -- An ever-increasing rise in the cost of living has Boomers concerned about life after work. In search of affordable healthcare, reasonable gas prices, and...

Articles 2008-07-07