we help our clients develop effective asset protection and wealth transfer insurance strategies that fully coordinate with business plans and employee benefits solutions.

Leveraged Insurance Solutions

We can help you understand how to leverage insurance solutions that deliver maximum benefits to you, your key staff members and your organization.

Executive Concept Insurance Strategies Include:

  • Key Person Life Insurance
    Protect your business from financial losses upon the death of a key employee critical to business operations. Key person insurance can function as a form of commercial loan protection and can provide needed funds when a business is to be continued, sold or liquidated.
  • Executive Equity
    Provide selected employees with valuable Executive Equity life insurance in their benefits package. Employer-paid premiums are fully tax-deductible as compensation to the employee with death benefits paid directly to the employee's beneficiary.
  • Key Person Buy-Out Agreement
    Ensure a seamless business and stock transfer solution upon the death of a key owner. This strategy allows a key person to insure the life of an owner under the arrangement that the owner agrees to sell all of his business interest to the key person upon the owner's death.
  • Restrictive Bonus Plan
    Offer an attractive "golden handcuff" to key employees with a restrictive bonus plan life insurance benefit. Tax-deductible employer-paid premiums and restrictive employer endorsements protect corporate interests during the lifetime of the employee.
  • Deferred Compensation
    Allow selected management or highly compensated employees to defer income until after retirement. Deferred compensation insurance offers multiple tax advantages to both the employer and the participant, and the plan can also be structured to provide disability benefits to the employee.

Let us help you design insurance solutions that offer your key employees the quality insurance benefits they deserve and provide your organization with the protection and business advantages you need. Contact your Stephens Insurance Advisor at 1-800-852-5053.

Bank-Owned Life Insurance

The expenses involved in providing employee benefit plans are major overhead components for most banks. Any financing tool that can lower or stabilize this cost is of great value. Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) is a powerful tool available to help banks develop a solid employee benefits strategy.

Stephens Insurance provides experienced consultation and superior products to assist our banking clients in designing strategic, cost-effective Bank-Owned Life Insurance solutions.

BOLI Benefits

Since 1987, banks have successfully profited with Bank-Owned Life Insurance, and in the past few years BOLI has gained wide acceptance within the banking community as a sound financial strategy.

Recent studies have suggested that benefit plan expenses will continue to increase at a much faster pace than the rate of increase in banks' interest income. Any plan that can control this increase makes good financial sense.

Banks gain several advantages from using BOLI:

  • The plan's yield is greater than that available from alternative investments.
  • The long-term nature of the program corresponds with the extended time horizon of benefit plan expenses.
  • Most banks have found that BOLI can provide after-tax returns 200 to 300 basis points higher than traditional bank investments with low risk.

Experienced BOLI Consultation

Let us help your bank develop a solid employee benefits solution. Contact your Stephens Insurance Advisor at 1-800-852-5053.

Corporate-Owned Life Insurance (COLI)

Stephens Insurance custom tailors Corporate-Owned Life Insurance (COLI) solutions to fit the specific needs of companies financing non-qualified benefit plans. With Stephens Insurance, your corporation has access to highly competitive COLI products and services that can help attract and retain key executives.

COLI solutions can help your corporation fund:

  • Survivor Income Plans
  • Deferred Compensation Plans
  • Post-Retirement Medical Benefits
  • Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans

Experienced COLI Consulting

At Stephens Insurance, we make long-term commitments to the success of our clients' businesses. Our experienced COLI advisors will work with you to review and evaluate your existing plans and to put in place a COLI solution that can enhance benefits, reduce costs and provide the best tax advantages for your company.

Contact your Stephens Insurance Advisor or call us at 1-800-852-5053 for a free consultation.