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  Survey: most workers in U.S., Europe, flag workplace retirement plan as high priority

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  October 23, 2012

  Most workers identify access to a workplace retirement plan and life insurance as either important or extremely important as an occupational benefit.

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  Guardian Life survey flags room for improvement in employee benefits

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  October 8, 2012

  When asked to attach a value to their employee benefits on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest value and 1 the lowest, 64 percent rate their benefits in the moderate (6-10) range, the average score being 6.8 in Guardian’s Benefits Value Index.

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  Survey Points to Lower Retirement Expectations Among U.S. and European Workers

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  June 7, 2012

  Seven in 10 survey respondents still working believe future generations will be worse-off in retirement than are current retirees. The finding reverses the long-established notion that each subsequent generation will enjoy a higher standard of living than the last.

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  Transamerica: More than Three-Quarters of Workers Fund an Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plan

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 16, 2012

  Despite the Great Recession, workers remain committed to saving for retirement in company-sponsored 401(k) plans and similar arrangements, according to a recent survey by Transamerica.

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  Sun Life: More than One-Third of Workers Decline DI Coverage from Employers

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 14, 2012

  The report reveals that more than one-third (38%) of workers whose employers offered them the option to pay for group long-term disability income insurance declined to buy it.