Learning Center
Welcome to the Areté Partners Learning Center. This area is designed to assist with client and prospective client education, public relations inquiries and to provide an historical news archive. You may automatically receive The Areté Employee Benefit Brief and Benefit Alerts by e-mail.
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Areté Newletters
Areté Employee Benefit Brief – (email and print issued as
needed) are designed to quickly put time sensitive information into your
hands. The Areté Employee Benefit Brief
gives clients time-sensitive insightful commentary on employee benefits,
retirement and insurance issues and immediate access to compliance obligations.
Quickly puts critical information in your hands.
Areté Advisor Quarterly – (issued quarterly) the primary
publication for Areté clients covering legal issues that can affect decisions
about benefit plan designs and compliance issues. Supplemental information provided in addition
to our monthly publications.
Areté Contact is designed for C-level executives (CEOs,
CFOs, etc.) and elected officials who may not be involved in the day-to-day
management of employee benefits but need a clear understanding of the strategic
developments in the industry, especially legislative activity.
Compliance
Administering qualified benefit programs is no easy task. Complex situations and issues can occur daily. ERISA provides that a person is a fiduciary to the extent he exercises any discretionary control in the management of the plan, responsibility in the plans administration or exercises an authority or control respecting management or dispositions of its assets. Furthermore, fiduciary status is defined not only by reference to particular titles, but also by the authority which a person has or exercises over an employee benefit plan.
Perhaps you have more fiduciaries or fiduciary responsibilities than you thought. It is critical that you know who does what with respect to your plans. It is just as critical that you are sure that you clearly understand the role of your plan providers. Remember as a Plan Fiduciary your personal assets can be at stake!
Glossary
Glossary of health insurance terminology. Here are some commonly used terms and phrases used by people in the insurance industry that have been compiled by Areté Partners.
Healthcare Reform
America's health care system is always a work in progress. Every year brings new challenges and new proposed solutions. Arete Partners believes that all in the U.S. should have health coverage at a reasonable cost. How that goal can be achieved and paid for is a hotly debated topic. In the heat of debate, opinion leaders need an source of information so they can understand the roots of the nation's health care problems and the trade-offs posed by competing proposals for change. Arete is often called open to provide that information to employers, employer groups, associations, elected officals and media representatives.
Misc. Articles
Information articles complied by Areté Partners.
Useful Links
Informational websites that have been compiled by Areté Partners. Please report any dead links.
Wellness
There is compelling evidence that a sizable portion of the billions of dollars currently spent by employers on health-related costs, is preventable by means of health promotion programming. Well planned, comprehensive health promotion programs (corporate wellness programs and employee wellness programs) have been shown to be cost-effective, especially when the health promotion programming is matched to the health problems of the specific employee population.