Data use is critical to successful employee benefits programs and wellness initiatives. Examine retirement participants’ online habits, interactions, sharing, and expectations of employers and benefits providers.
Deb Dupont 1/23/2024
Data use is critical to successful employee benefits programs and wellness initiatives. Examine retirement participants’ online habits, interactions, sharing, and expectations of employers and benefits providers.
Online activity and tech-enabled interactions are now commonplace. The internet offers an unprecedented and on-demand gateway to the world. This opens the door to a host of new risks and concerns, particularly in matters of financial security where the stakes are high.
The LIMRA Financial Wellness Index™ helps give form and definition to the often mercurial concept of financial wellness by creating a wellness “score” that can be assessed over time, and compared within and among different demographic segments.
"Wellness” isn’t inherently gender-specific or unique to any one generation. However, on many dimensions, women and younger generations have an increased need for wellness programs and product offerings.
This research briefing explores the impact that financial, physical, emotional and related wellness factors have on employees and their work.
The 2026 LIMRA Financial Wellness Index® reveals why modest improvements in financial wellness have not translated into everyday relief—and what that means for employers, providers, and consumers. New Related Resources added.
The 2026 LIMRA Landscape Report reveals how employers are reshaping benefits to deliver more flexible, targeted support — while a growing divide by company size is changing who has access to core coverage. New Cost Pressure is Shaping Employee Benefit Strategy report added.
Learn about the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and financial condition of retirees and workers in Canada.
Deb Dupont is responsible for LIMRA’s institutional (retirement plans) retirement research program. She conducts and supervises research, benchmark reporting, and study groups focused on the issues and trends faced by constituents of the defined contribution industry. She also provides guidance and thought leadership in helping LIMRA's member firms better understand the opportunities available for improving delivery of institutional retirement solutions.
Prior to joining LIMRA in 2014, Deb was the Director of ING's Retirement Research Institute (the Institute), where she created, managed, and published a research platform that included work focusing on multi-cultural, generational, and gender-based analyses of retirement behaviors, and also published insights and analyses of ING's own cross-defined contribution (i.e., across employment sectors) participant base. Deb's work has been recognized for effectiveness and quality by some of the most prestigious awards in the financial services and communications industries, including the Insurance and Financial Communicators' Association and the International Association of Business Communicators. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.
Assistant Vice President Workplace Benefits Research, Institutional Retirement
LIMRA and LOMA
ddupont@limra.com