Employee Benefits

With new legislation, complex administration processes, and ever-changing regulations, it can be difficult for benefits professionals to stay up-to-date on the essential issues key to designing and maintaining an effective employee benefits program.

The following podcast series will feature a variety of experts in the benefits industry, presenting timely and important topics to help you successfully manage your employee benefits program.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Employee Benefits in Singapore

Since Singapore continues to be the gateway to South East Asia, it is becoming more important for multinationals to understand local employee benefits, trends and legislation. In this podcast, Lawrence Adams of Sterling Knight (Private) Limited explains the landscape of compulsory and supplemental benefit schemes for local nationals, expatriates and foreigners in Singapore.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Multinational Pooling: A Discussion with Insurope

Insurope is a multinational pooling organization that consists of a world-wide network, in over 80 countries, of insurance companies that specialize in employee benefits insurance. This podcast explains what multinational pooling is, how it works, its financial and non-financial advantages and how your organization can establish a multinational pool.
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Featuring:
Lisa Morrow, Regional West Coast Director, Insurope

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Global Expansion: Managing Your World-Wide Workforce and Local Requirements


Hiring employees in world-wide locations comes with known and unknown challenges. High Street Partners is an international business services firm that provides a turn key approach to simplify local human resources, accounting management, legal and taxation requirements for global companies. This podcast is about global expansion and explains how High Street Partners can efficiently manage local requirements for your global workforce.

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Featuring:
Nicole Sahin, Director, Business Development, High Street Partners

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Defined Contribution Investing - 401(k) Plans - for Preservation of Capital


Market turmoil over the past few years has focused more attention on stable value funds that provide preservation of capital. This podcast provides a brief description of the types of funds offered to 401k participants, the market risk and investment posture and an industry overview. Kent Peterson, Director of Investment Services for Securian Retirement, St. Paul Minnesota, gives his views on this topic.

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