Retirement Plans – First Capital Benefit Advisors, Inc.

Services We Provide

We perform the administrative and actuarial services below. However, be aware that many of our clients believe our most valuable service is to understand your full life situation, and plan on how to integrate the pension plan into your plan for your life.

Types of Retirement Plans Serviced:

Defined Benefit Pension Plans
401k Plans
Profit Sharing Plans
Money Purchase Pension Plans

In each type of plan, you can place employees into different groups or tiers, and then schedule benefits to benefit one or more of those groups. These groupings may need to be changed from time to time.

High-income earners can easily set up our customized Qualified Defined Benefit and 401k Retirement Plans to:

Achieve annual tax deductions up to $140,000 or more, saving current taxes of $55,000 or more
Build up massive wealth to high-net-worth status
Pay income tax on what you take out later (no FICA), and choose when and how much taxes you pay
Contribute on a flexible basis annually
Consider income-producing real estate

IMPLEMENTATION

In addition to working directly with small business owners, we also work with financial planners and business managers. As a financial advisor or accountant, you will find working with us to enhance your clients’ retirement security to be a simple process.Following the initial plan set-up, First Capital Benefit Advisors will provide you with ongoing support to assist your clients. We encourage you to contact us throughout the year as questions arise. With the signed plan document in hand, the yearly process is as follows:

Contributions – your client makes contributions as money is available – we help you to understand the timeline. For example, if your client has a 12/31 year end, then if you or the accountant gets an extension on the business return (which if often automatically done with a Defined Benefit Plan), then your client has until September 15 of the NEXT year to make the contribution.
Valuation and AFTAP report – we perform beginning-of-year valuations (end-of-year for some combined plans). We typically complete the actuarial valuation by April of the current year. This actuarial valuation shows the range of contributions for the current year, and therefore is very important for your client. We are always happy to discuss this range.
Year-end process – We request Census and Trust information from you shortly before the end of the year. We ask that you and your client complete this and send it back to us as soon as the information is available. The financial advisor provides a report of the investments that covers the client’s current year. The accountant or client provides a full census of the employees at year end, including salaries, as well as a page showing the inflow and outflow from the investment fund for the year (contributions in and payments to participants out). All contributions that are going to be deducted on the tax return for the year, even those contributed after year end, should be reported to us. After receiving the requested information, we prepare the 5500 series forms, and send them to the client.
Small amendments – you or your client may want to change the plan in some fashion during the year, or we may recommend changes from time to time. We prepare amendments to accomplish these changes, and send these out.
If the plan is covered by the PBGC, we prepare filings as necessary.

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Contact us via e-mail, via our website contact form, or just give us a call at 855-244-8466 – P.O. Box 3009, Westlake Village, CA 91359. We will get back to you as soon as possible.