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Plan to Keep Key Employees 

 

Introduction:
In today’s market, retention of key employees is a primary concern for most business owners. Many business owners seek innovative ways to keep their top producers engaged, while also saving themselves the hassle of unwelcome compensation programs and the recruitment of new talent. Loss of a key employee can result in a decrease in sales and productivity and an increase in costs of recruiting, hiring, and training. 

What can companies do?
Companies can consider offering non-qualified deferred compensation plans. This is a viable option for top producers and high-leveled employees to improve their retirement benefits. Non-qualified deferred compensation may reduce current adjusted gross income levels for key employees who are relying on the program to abate: 

  • Income taxes 
  • Capital gains tax 
  • Medicare surtax 

A deferred compensation plan can provide key employees with a beneficial tax-deferred savings vehicle through employee and/or employer contributions. Businesses can benefit greatly with a strategy to retaining key employees for the long term. 

The process:

Step 1: Employer selects which key employees qualify to earn a deferred compensation plan.
Step 2: An attorney examined written plan agreement is formed between the employer and key employee listing contributions and benefit amounts.
Step 3: The employer determines financial vehicle for the key employee, which serves as a funding tool for the plan. The amount of contribution will be provided under the deferred compensation plan.
Step 4: Employer makes agreed-upon contributions to the employee’s plan. The employee may qualify for benefits such as retirement, disability or survivor benefit, per the plan agreement. These payments are typically tax deductible to the employer when paid, and are taxed as ordinary income to the employee. 

What’s next?
Evaluate your strategy with Lions Assurance Financial and learn about business opportunities that will benefit your company. Lions Assurance Financial helps businesses, together with their tax and legal advisors, to develop optimal financial solutions for success.  

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Ariel Tavor

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Ariel Tavor is the Founder and Principal Managing Director of Lions Financial. His agenda for Lions Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the Business-to-Business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. Ariel works with CEO’s, Capital Investment funds, and Boards of Directors where he advises his clients in matters of Executive compensation, Business Plan Design, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, and Asset Financing.

Ariel has 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has worked in insurance and investment companies to analyze client’s financial and make suggestions on allocations based on defined objectives as well as maintaining long term relationships. Ariel’s comprehensive experience has allowed him to work closely with CEOs of companies and their executive teams from diverse industries such as trucking, hospitality, commercial real estate, Insurance, manufacturing, and technology. He has helped lead companies through the challenging decisions around – Buy-Sell Agreements, Deferred Compensation, Employee Group Benefits, Succession Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuations, and Business Sales.

Ariel currently oversees their family office investment group and sits on the Board of Directors of several companies and real estate developments. Their Investment group controls a portfolio of companies in multiple industries. They collaboratively have holdings in companies specialized in – Automotive Distribution- Real Estate Asset Management- Corporate Travel- Ink Mailing Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Management Consulting, Enterprise Technology, and Food Concepts. In recent years there has been a transition into fund allocation towards limited partnership investments in Venture Capital, Private Equity, and REITS within individual underwriting opportunities.

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Ariel Tavor is the founder and principal managing director of Lions Assurance Financial. His agenda for Lions Assurance Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the business-to-business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management.

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Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family owned businesses, and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and speciality finance firms.​

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An effective risk management consultant will help individuals and organizations evaluate their risks and develop a plan to counter their losses. Risk management is a complex process, and there is no one-size-fits-all process that all consultants can use. However, there are certain conventional methods that a consultant will use to help you protect your organization from risk. A risk management consultant should be capable of identifying the unique risk that your business is exposed to and carefully evaluating the scenarios. One of the most critical steps in the risk management step is to discover and list all the expected and unexpected risks. There are various advisory firms that can help you mitigate risk and take care of your business’s financial aspect, but one firm that stands out from the rest is Lions Financial. The company is an independent financial services & business advisory firm based in New York. In conversation with Ariel Tavor, Managing Director of Lions Financial. Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family-owned businesses and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and specialty finance firms.