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More at retirement is better than less.

Business planning
We work closely with both you and your team to make certain that the retirement planning programmes you offer to employees suit both their needs and your macro plan.
Corporate retirement planning
- Traditional 401(k)
- Profit-sharing plans
- Defined benefit
- Cash balance plans
Corporate retirement planning
- Traditional 401(k)
- Profit-sharing plans
- Defined benefit
- Cash balance plans
Continuity planning
- Buy-sell agreement funding
- Key employee planning
Executive benefit plans
- Selective benefit plans for key executives
- Focused on retention and reward
We welcome the opportunity to
- Update your plan document to reflect recent law changes
- Discuss the advantages of “open-architecture” investment choices
- Help implement an investment committee made up of key employees
- Create an investment policy statement
- Educate employees on the choice between Roth 401(k) and Traditional 401(k)
- Provide retirement plan cost analysis, evaluating fees for both employees and employer
- Offer alternative deferral choices for highly compensated employees
- Reduce testing and administration costs by changing plan design (safe harbor plan)
- Offer solutions to bundled vs. unbundled administration
- Provide educational workshops for employees
Pension plan analysis
We work closely with pension plan holders to apply the same verifiable, proven principles as we do with every other strategy: how can we help build our client’s personal wealth, minimise their personal risk, and maintain their personal lifestyle?
We begin by analysing:
- The overall cost of the plan, by examining each charge applied to your pension
- The range of different investment funds available
- Whether it would be beneficial, long- and short-term, to transfer the pension to an alternative plan
- How costs associated with your current plan compare to alternatives available
- What tomorrow looks like today, and how we can improve upon it
Employee benefits
Financial Architects works with business owners to understand the benefit needs of their employees, and to analyse and offer the programmes best suited to meet them. From group health and other benefits to individual medical plans, we provide products and services designed to protect you and your employees from risk while maximising wealth-building strategies for the individual business owner.
Individual & family health quotesMedicare
As our clients become eligible for Medicare, the array of choices can lead to confusion and uncertainty. Ultimately what you want is simple: good healthcare, and the ability to maintain it at an affordable price.
If you have a question about your current plan, or want to compare rates of plans from all carriers, call Chris Besonen at 248-482-3619.
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Asset Management
Asset management tools, products, techniques and methods may change or come and go over time, but principles never do.
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Insurance
What makes life insurance so crucial to overall financial planning is that it is a strategy that plans for tomorrow while preparing for today.
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Estate Planning
Taking the necessary steps now preserves the wealth you have accumulated, and reduces the time and confusion left behind for the people you care about.
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Business Succession
Every owner leaves their company eventually. The Q5 Experience™ exists so that it happens on your terms.
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Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
A Discovery Call is 30 minutes with a Lead Financial Architect. No preparation required, and no obligation to move forward.