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Financial Services

Retirement plans, wealth management and life insurance, planned in one conversation so each decision fits the others.

Why one conversation

A business owner’s retirement plan, personal savings and life insurance are connected. So are a plan sponsor’s duties to its employees and those employees’ own plans for retirement. Looking at them together makes the trade-offs visible.

The same group that handles an employer’s benefits and insurance can bring retirement and wealth specialists into the conversation, so nothing is planned in isolation.

For employers who sponsor a plan

Retirement plans

The team works with plan sponsors on the plan itself and on the sponsor’s responsibilities to the people in it.

Four goals, in the order most sponsors take them:

  1. Meet fiduciary responsibilities

    Plan governance, documented processes and regular reviews that help a sponsor carry out its own duties to participants.

  2. Improve participant outcomes

    Plan design, enrollment and education that help employees save for retirement.

  3. Get full value from the plan

    A plan that works for the business and its people, reviewed as both change.

  4. Benchmark fees

    Plan costs compared with similar plans, so a sponsor knows what it pays and why.

Plan types

  • 401(k)
  • 403(b)
  • Defined benefit
For individuals, families, business owners and nonprofits

Wealth management

Planning that looks at the whole picture: savings and investments, a business and what happens to it, charitable giving, and how wealth passes to the next generation.

Who it serves

  • Individuals
  • Families
  • Business owners
  • Nonprofits
For families and businesses

Life insurance

Coverage for the people and plans that depend on you, such as a family’s income, a business succession plan or an estate plan.

Often part of

  • Family planning
  • Business succession
  • Estate planning

Talk to a financial services team

Tell us whether you sponsor a plan, own a business or are planning for your family. The right team will follow up.

Contact us

Headquarters, Deerfield, Illinois (847) 457-3000