Corporate Executive Benefits
AN IMPACTFUL WEALTH ACCUMULATION TOOL
TO RECRUIT, RETAIN AND REWARD KEY EXECUTIVES
Business owners and key executives face tax issues and retirement saving challenges due to restrictive legislation that dramatically limits the amount of income that can be deferred or contributed to the company’s qualified retirement plan. For this reason, a growing number of companies are turning to nonqualified deferred compensation plans to augment owners’ and key executives’ retirement benefits and overcome many of the regulatory restrictions that apply to qualified retirement plans.
OBJECTIVE ADVICE AND ADVOCACY
As professionals with many years of experience in executive compensation strategies, our role is to serve as your advocate-helping you define your plan specifications and compare existing programs with your current goals. We help you orchestrate the plan; assemble the required specialists; coordinate arrangements with the advisory team; and guide every aspect of the plan ‘s development.
SERVICES
Our services include the design, financing and administration of executive benefit programs such as:
- Non-qualified deferred compensation plans
- Supplemental executive retirement plans
- Executive life insurance, disability income plans, and long-term care insurance
- Executive incentive programs
- Executive Financial Planning
ADVANTAGES TO YOUR COMPANY
The intended end-result is a custom-built solution structured around your company’s unique requirements-whether it’s:
- Retaining key personnel;
- Restoring executive benefits lost to government limits on qualified retirement plans;
- Rewarding executives and aligning their behavior with the company’s long and short-term goals;
- Recruiting key executives to the company; or
- Retiring executives as part of a well-coordinated succession strategy.
Deferred Compensation Plans
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Our approach to both new and existing plans is to focus on three separate but linked elements: design, funding and administration. For example, the best deferred compensation designs can fail because of inadequate or ineffective funding arrangements that do not immunize the corporation against the liabilities created by these plans. Accordingly, our professional process is designed to address all aspects of your plan’s mechanics so that it performs as intended.
PLAN DESIGN
Our goal is to ensure that your plan design reflects your company’s goals as well as those of your valued executives.
FOR EXISTING PLANS, we conduct a comprehensive audit of your current program and/or funding arrangements to examine performance against your company’s goals to determine:
- If they provide proper incentive for management to achieve top performance.
- If they are aligned with current compensation plan goals.
- Whether they are performing to expectations and how that performance is being measured.
- If funding has remained current with interest and investment rates over time.
Based on a review of your existing program (compared to the industry’s most current data), we will determine if there are opportunities for cost savings or benefit enhancements by identifying strategies and elements that may have been overlooked or not kept current. Our subsequent recommendations can result in substantial enhancements to earnings or cash savings.
FOR NEW PLANS, we work with you to implement a contemporary plan design compliant under IRS Section 409A, based on company goals and executive needs.
PLAN FUNDING
Matching Funding Strategies to your Plan Objectives: As your advocate, we provide a thorough and objective evaluation of possible funding methods using conservative assumptions and a strategic (versus product-driven) approach.
Integrating Funding Decisions with Your Corporate Methodology: Each method is analyzed using several scenarios that you define. These are then presented under the same parameters you use to make other corporate financial decisions.
Implementing Funding Decisions and Selecting Providers: Following that decision, we work with your tax, legal and accounting advisors to put in place a funding program consistent with your stated objectives.
PLAN ADMINISTRATION
A critical part of any deferred compensation program is effective and on-going plan administration and management that:
- Provides your executives with account statements and access to benefit values.
- Provides the corporation with the data and plan reporting necessary to enhance management oversight.
- Manages asset-liability tracking on an active, ongoing basis through expense projection and reconciliation.
MacArthur Financial provides access to the appropriate combination of third-party plan administration services to accomplish all of these tasks for your organization. We then assist in monitoring the effectiveness of those relationships through technology and comprehensive Annual Reviews.