Business Solutions
Financial Solutions for You and Your Business
If you own a successful business, you know the meaning of hard work and what satisfaction truly feels like. If you also have the responsibility of supporting a family, you know what it's like to occasionally accomplish the impossible.
Working closely with your legal and tax advisors I can help you reach your business and estate financial goals with solutions that will help maximize your personal benefits, provide the tools to recruit and retain employees, protect against the loss of key employees and create ownership succession strategies. These solutions can help build your business and transfer wealth to future generations.
Helping Your Business Grow
Owning a business is among the most common paths to financial independence — but no one ever said it would be easy.
Running a successful business requires you to study, ask questions of experts in your industry, and seek the counsel of qualified tax, legal, and financial advisors.
Working closely with your legal and tax advisors I can help you reach your business and estate financial goals with solutions that will help maximize your personal benefits, provide the tools to recruit and retain employees, protect against the loss of key employees and create ownership succession strategies. These solutions can help build your business and transfer wealth to future generations.
Helping Your Business Grow
Owning a business is among the most common paths to financial independence — but no one ever said it would be easy.
Running a successful business requires you to study, ask questions of experts in your industry, and seek the counsel of qualified tax, legal, and financial advisors.
Planning for Your Business's Future
If you weren't around to run your business, what would happen to it and the income it provides your family? Would a successor be ready to take over? What will happen when you eventually retire? Are your family members planning to step in and continue what you've started? Do you expect to continue receiving an income from your business after you stop working? People often allow the day-to-day demands of running a business to prevent them from answering these important questions until too late. Don't let it happen to you.
Retirement and Estate Conservation Products and Services
Of course, you may feel like you never want to retire from your business. You put your life into building it, and now it has become your lifeblood. But maybe someday you'll want to slow down, take it easy. Wouldn't it be nice to have that option?
On the other hand, your health might someday prevent you from working as hard as you'd like. Or perhaps forces outside your control could alter the market for your products or services. In short, you may not have complete control over when you decide to leave your business.
It's important to plan for the unexpected. Using the appropriate retirement planning and estate conservation products and services can help you create options, so that you, your family, and your business are prepared for an array of outcomes. Today's business owners and self-employed individuals have a wide range of choices to help them protect their loved ones, take more control over the future of their business, and manage the risks of daily living and the unexpected. I can help you begin to create a plan that addresses your concerns and your desires that may include:
Business Succession Planning – Our succession strategies can be catered to your wealth transfer objectives. We can provide life insurance funding for a Buy-Sell Agreement to provide for the orderly disposition of a closely held business if an owner dies, becomes disabled or sells.
For family business owners we identify alternative business strategies to equalize estate assets among all children – whether they’re active or inactive in the family business.
For family business owners we identify alternative business strategies to equalize estate assets among all children – whether they’re active or inactive in the family business.
Life Insurance for Risk Management
The nature of business is living with risk — the risks of expanding on borrowed money, launching products and services, extending credit, and hiring workers. But the successful business owner knows that opportunity lives on the same street as risk. Those who do their best to minimize risk have more time to focus on the pursuit of opportunity.
One way to manage risk is with life insurance. You would purchase insurance to help protect your capital investments against fire, theft, or other risks. But have you taken steps to protect against the loss of key employees? Or protected your family against the risk of a loan default if something happened to you? Life insurance can help reduce the financial risks to your business and your family if you or other key players die before completing long-term plans.
The nature of business is living with risk — the risks of expanding on borrowed money, launching products and services, extending credit, and hiring workers. But the successful business owner knows that opportunity lives on the same street as risk. Those who do their best to minimize risk have more time to focus on the pursuit of opportunity.
One way to manage risk is with life insurance. You would purchase insurance to help protect your capital investments against fire, theft, or other risks. But have you taken steps to protect against the loss of key employees? Or protected your family against the risk of a loan default if something happened to you? Life insurance can help reduce the financial risks to your business and your family if you or other key players die before completing long-term plans.
Key Person Insurance – The death of a key employee can create serious problems for a business. We can help protect you against this loss.
Offering a Competitive Benefits Package
Regardless of how high or low the unemployment rate is, it's always difficult and expensive to replace a quality employee. Once you've found the best people, keeping them interested in your company and motivated to perform at peak levels is a big challenge.
A competitive benefits package is a must-have in today's labor market. If you are thinking that benefits are an expense you can't afford, consider these reasons for offering them, or have the employees help with the costs.
Carefully selected benefits can cut your turnover rate and the related costs of hiring and training replacements. Benefits can help boost company morale and improve productivity. And benefits can be more affordable than you expect. Some can be offered at virtually no cost to you.
Allow me to help you analyze your needs. You may be surprised at how easy it is to add the types of protection and planning appropriate to your business without spending a fortune. The products and services I offer in this category include:
Employee Compensation Strategies – We design supplemental pension, deferred compensation, executive bonus and other retirement and incentive compensation programs. These programs motivate key people with financial incentives that enhance job security.
Retirement Planning – Qualified plans can help owners and long-term employees build financial independence. Some examples are 401(k), pension, profit sharing, SIMPLE and Defined Benefit plans.
Offering a Competitive Benefits Package
Regardless of how high or low the unemployment rate is, it's always difficult and expensive to replace a quality employee. Once you've found the best people, keeping them interested in your company and motivated to perform at peak levels is a big challenge.
A competitive benefits package is a must-have in today's labor market. If you are thinking that benefits are an expense you can't afford, consider these reasons for offering them, or have the employees help with the costs.
Carefully selected benefits can cut your turnover rate and the related costs of hiring and training replacements. Benefits can help boost company morale and improve productivity. And benefits can be more affordable than you expect. Some can be offered at virtually no cost to you.
Allow me to help you analyze your needs. You may be surprised at how easy it is to add the types of protection and planning appropriate to your business without spending a fortune. The products and services I offer in this category include:
Employee Compensation Strategies – We design supplemental pension, deferred compensation, executive bonus and other retirement and incentive compensation programs. These programs motivate key people with financial incentives that enhance job security.
Retirement Planning – Qualified plans can help owners and long-term employees build financial independence. Some examples are 401(k), pension, profit sharing, SIMPLE and Defined Benefit plans.
Executive Compensation Strategies(1) – I can help you create the employee benefit package that’s right for your business including: disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, employee voluntary and cafeteria plans.
Employee Benefits(1) – I can help you create the employee benefit package that’s right for your business, including: disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, employee voluntary plans and cafeteria plans.
Educational Services – I can conduct seminars for your employees on their retirement packages. As a value-added service we offer educational seminars on a variety of financial topics.
Once your customized strategy is in place I will continue to support you by conducting regular reviews to monitor each individual and unique financial situation.
Educational Services – I can conduct seminars for your employees on their retirement packages. As a value-added service we offer educational seminars on a variety of financial topics.
Once your customized strategy is in place I will continue to support you by conducting regular reviews to monitor each individual and unique financial situation.
Signator Investors, Inc. provides fee based advisory accounts and fee based financial planning and only qualified representative enrolled in the Signator Investors, Inc. Corporate Registered Investment Advisor Program may offer these advisory products and services