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From rising healthcare costs to growing demand for personalization and wellbeing, employers must evolve to attract, retain, and engage talent. With this Outlook, use the key insights to prepare your organizations to deliver cost-effective and attractive benefits. And learn how integrating retirement and financial wellness strategies can help employees—and your business—thrive. Despite the unsettling economic environment, organizations that leverage smart strategies and technology will keep their benefits programs vital, resilient, and effective.

Drawing on the contributions of 605 Family Office professionals, from Personal Assistants to Investment Professionals to C-Suite executives, this year’s report represents the combined findings from both the survey and the 20 in-depth interviews with senior leaders across all regions. With their inputs and the reliance on in-house proprietary data, KPMG and Agreus have created benchmarks for salaries, bonus structures, and long-term incentive plans (LTIP).

As organizations prepare for their compensation benefits and structure, this planning guide provides information on salary budget increases, structure adjustments, promotional spending, and variable pay budget increases to assist in budgeting personnel expenses. Using the national and regional data as average percentages of payroll, the guide serves as a helpful planning tool.

Today’s multigenerational workforce challenges even the most well-designed benefits strategies. And while many employers believe they’re delivering value, there’s a small perception gap that reveals where smarter strategy can take benefits programs from good to great. It’s more than a human capital issue, it’s a business-wide challenge impacting retention, performance, and ultimately, profitability.

Every business needs an executive compensation and incentive program that rewards leaders who deliver desired results. An incentive pay structure is a valuable component of the total rewards package that a business can use to retain and motivate its leaders and key employees. These plans tend to focus on long-term incentives that align employee goals to that of the owners—specifically, contributing to the growth of the business. In this overview, see how different compensation alternatives can help you create the right strategy for your business.

College graduation is an exciting event, but it can be filled with uncertainty with the start of a job that brings new responsibilities and decisions. To help with the transition, it's time to plan your financial future. To get started, here are helpful tips on budgeting and spending money wisely, checking your credit score, saving for retirement, understanding your company’s benefits, monitoring and protecting your online activity (both financials and social posts), building your business skills, and more.

Understanding the nuances between retirement plans can be challenging. This Quick Reference Guide to Retirement Plans compares and contrasts features such as account establishment, account contributions, and accessibility.

At the current rate of progress, a young woman starting her career today will be working for more than a quarter of a century before she can expect to work at a mid-market firm with gender parity in top roles. While understanding that gender diversity is a fuel for potential growth that brings benefits to the bottom line, many businesses often lack a clear purpose behind their gender equality strategies at the risk of another missed generation of opportunities. This year’s Women in Business research gives reason for optimism and there is a great deal to learn.

Being a fiduciary for your organization’s retirement plan doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. However, it does require careful oversight to mitigate risk and help participants meet their retirement goals. With the use of this checklist that should be reviewed on an annual basis, employers can better manage their retirement plan responsibilities.