Practices

Sibson Consulting serves as employee benefits consultants to corporations, non-profit organizations and professional service firms nationwide.

Services

Our benefits consulting services include:

• Employee communications services, including personalized communication/benefit statements
• Strategic health benefits program consulting and assessment services including:
  • Retiree medical design and valuation
  • Wellness and disease management strategies and program development and implementation
  • Consumerism and consumer-driven health strategies
  • Creating a healthy enterprise
• Defined benefit and defined contribution plan services, including:
  • plan design and actuarial services,
  • defined contribution plan vendor selection and plan implementation,* and
  • DC-Assessment (Segal's approach to helping DC plan sponsors meet their fiduciary responsibilities)
• Frozen defined benefit plan consulting
• Life, survivor income and disability programs consulting
• Absence management and paid time off program consulting
• Employee stock ownership arrangements consulting
• Process, technology and administration consulting
• Service delivery selection
and
• Investment services*

*provided by Segal Advisors,Inc., the investment-consulting affiliate of Segal

Global Reach

Sibson Consulting can provide consulting services worldwide. Through membership in the Multinational Group of Actuaries and Consultants (MGAC), of which we are a founding member, we can assist with questions about policies and procedures in specific countries where MGAC members operate. Through our affiliation with IBIS Advisors, we help clients devise global strategies and policies.

Leadership in Employee Benefits

The company actively participates in such leading employee benefits groups as the American Benefits Council, the American Compensation Association, the American Management Association, the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the Employers Council on Flexible Compensation, the Profit Sharing Council of America, the Society of Human Resource Managers, SPARK (the Society of Professional Administrators and Recordkeepers), and WEB, a network of professionals working in employee benefits.

Information

• Research and Compliance Although Sibson Consulting does not practice law, our national Research and Compliance Departments are available to share information with our clients and their attorneys. The company's Research Department provides the consulting staff with information on current and pending federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting employee benefit plans. When late-breaking developments can potentially affect a client, the consultants involved alert the client by telephone, letter or both. In addition, clients are encouraged to contact Sibson Consulting staff members who are familiar with their work whenever a question arises about an issue that can affect their plan. (However, because Sibson Consulting does not practice law, if a legal issue arises, clients are advised to consult with their attorneys for authoritative guidance.) In addition, we offer a separate service, called Crosscheck^SM, that provides specially trained experts to conduct an operational review of a client's administrative procedures to help a client and its legal counsel determine whether plan operations are meeting legal and regulatory requirements, and are consistent with what the plan promises.
• Publications Sibson Consulting publications include Perspectives, an online publication that discusses creative workforce, benefits, compensation and human resources issues; Spotlight, which discusses the implications of, and action items associated with, significant developments with regard to employee benefits, compensation and talent management; Bulletins, which describe major legislative, regulatory or accounting compliance developments; and occasional Segal Alerts, which summarize important pending legislation that can affect benefit plan sponsors.
• Seminars and Workshops Sibson Consulting sponsors and conducts educational workshops and "breakfast seminars" that address recently-passed legislation or an issue of current interest. Our consultants invite clients and friends of the firm to these functions and will follow up with additional information and consulting that is relevant to a particular client.

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