NYLEX News

Will Your Executive Benefit Plans Deliver the Right Results in 2012?

Attracting, retaining, and developing key talent is as crucial today as it has always been. Companies in today’s economic environment are having to weigh the benefits of providing key supplemental benefit programs to accomplish these vital objectives with the financial concerns associated with shrinking profit margins and market uncertainty. If your company has implemented nonqualified employee benefit plans at different times or more than 3 years ago, you should consider evaluating the impact, coordination and funding efficiency of your employee benefit programs. Also in the January 2012 issue: how tax diversification can offset tax uncertainty and benefit plans for professional services firms. NYLEX News

A Funding Audit Can Benefit Your Financial Picture

Your approach to meeting your company’s nonqualified benefit obligations can have a major impact on your organization’s cash flow, income statement, and balance sheet. A properly structured funding arrangement can create an asset that closely matches both the amount and timing of your benefit liabilities. Could your financial picture benefit from a funding audit? To learn more about funding audits, using COLI to fund your ESOP, and the approaching November 23rd deadline under the Budget Control Act of 2011, read the September 2011 issue of NYLEX News

Retaining Key Executives in a Rebounding Economy

The economy is gradually rebounding and many of the best employees are exploring the job market. Are you positioned to keep your best executives? To learn more about retaining key executives in a rebounding economy, protecting valuable benefits for employees, and an alternative benefit plan suitable in situations where security and portability are the highest priorities, read the May 2011 issue of NYLEX News

Retention Bonus Arrangements

Could your most talented executives be tempted by offers from your competitors as the economy rebounds? If you are looking for ways to keep these top performers, learn more about Retention Bonus Arrangements and Deferred Compensation Programs in this issue of NYLEX News

Funding Business Obligations

Adequate funding for benefit plan and other company obligations – such as post-retirement benefits, nonqualified plans, employee stock ownership plans, partnership retirement payments and entity buyout obligations – is a critical issue facing businesses today. To learn more about planning for business obligations and funding alternatives, read this issue of NYLEX News

Are Your Key Employee Retirement Benefits Tax Diversified?

Helping key employees to tax diversify their retirement savings can be an effective way to provide an added benefit for targeted individuals at an affordable company cost. To learn more about this employee benefit strategy, funded with cash value life insurance, and the importance of auditing your employee retirement benefits package to assure your current plans are working together to meet your objectives, read this issue of NYLEX News

Tax-Advantaged Savings Option for Key Employees

Employers looking to differentiate their benefits package from the competition should learn more about NYLEX Benefit’s innovative employer-sponsored, tax advantaged, personal savings plan for select employees – the iSERP (Individual Secured Executive Reward Program). Read about the iSERP, how a Survivor Benefit Plan can show your employees you care, and why nonqualified deferred compensation plans still make sense in the July 2010 issue of NYLEX News

Are You Ready for the Upswing?

Is your business going to be ready for the upswing in the economy? Or are you at risk of losing key employees at a critical time for your business? Read the article "Are You Ready for the Upswing?" in the March NYLEX News to see how implementing incentive programs now can help retain your best employees. This issue of NYLEX News also includes articles on the IRS document correction program under Revenue Code Section 409A, the new FASB Accounting Standards Codification, and an innovative new employee benefit arrangement called iSERP. Learn more in the March 2010 issue of NYLEX News