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As businesses look to grow and thrive, they will face tough choices between balancing budgets and addressing the employee benefits outlook. With a focus on ways to reduce the impact of cost-driving issues, this Employee Benefits Market Outlook report provides insights and actionable solutions employers can use to address the rise of healthcare costs, leave management challenges, emerging genetic therapies, and other benefits challenges.

While charitable giving peaks in December, it is good planning to go past the last month of the year to help make a greater impact for your communities. Depending on your tax needs and philanthropic goals, consider making a gift of appreciated assets, creating a charitable lead trust, and using other options that go beyond making a gift of cash or property.

As the expectations and responsibilities of boards continue to grow, the corporate directors’ key priorities and considerations shift to four areas of focus: corporate purpose, values, and culture; business strategies built upon corporate purpose; enterprise risk management; and communications and reporting that highlight the need to engage and communicate more broadly.

Last year, the policymakers were a factor in shaping the global market conditions. And it’s clear that as long as financial markets function as intended, policymakers are willing to accept asset price volatility and a deterioration in macroeconomics fundamentals as a consequence of fighting inflation. In this year’s economic and market outlook, global inflation and recession are both expected to persist across most economies while unemployment is likely to rise.

Despite a recent decline in M&A activity, deal volume remains higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic. And as buyers and sellers work through various deal stages, they need to retain focus on their employees, who will be instrumental in keeping the new organization operational. From this Risk in Context podcast, learn more about the importance of focusing on people risks during an M&A or private equity-related transaction, allowing for effective integration at deal close.* Download file for the transcript and select play to hear the podcast.

Despite an economic downturn in 2022, healthcare trends indicated US healthcare venture capital investment was healthy. There’s plenty of dry powder to deploy; however, investments and exits are slowing due to the volatile market. Gain more insights and analysis from this report on the venture healthcare ecosystem. Watch the video for an overview of the report.

The quest for nonprofit funding and ways to obtain it continues to evolve while donors want to know the impact of their funds. In this discussion, BPM’s Daniel Figueredo and Tami McInerney explore the tools commonly used by funders and when one of them might be appropriate for your given situation. They also review important accounting and tax implications of each of the funding mechanisms by diving into the following topics:

The new pay transparency laws across the United States may point to a cultural shift underway toward an expectation of transparency and a desire to reduce the pay gap. While there is room for disagreement over whether laws will be a net positive for workers and employers, one thing is clear: legally-mandated pay transparency is a trend to which employers must be attuned.

When it comes to true investment fiduciaries, there are two standards of care: suitability and fiduciary. In this video, HighView CEO Mark Barnicutt shares his perspectives on both standards, the importance of the fiduciary standard for investors, and why the investment fiduciaries have become a scarcity.

The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, signed into law by President Joe Biden on December 29, 2022, makes significant changes to the administration and taxation of retirement plans. It addresses many practical concerns that surfaced after the passage of the original SECURE Act in 2019 and during the pandemic. Some of the key changes, including the rules for surviving spouses and the required minimum distribution rules, are set out here.