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CORPORATE BENEFITS
In today’s complex benefits environment, creative strategies need to be supported by appropriate market knowledge, including guidance on compliance and regulatory issues that could put your plans in jeopardy. Companies need access to organizations who know the landscape and can help navigate through this new era of health care and regulatory reform.Lenox’s Group Benefits clients enjoy that access through our partnership with NFP (National Financial Partners) Benefits. Together with over 185 owned firms, we form a powerful national partnership of independent practices committed to the design and implementation of innovative and customized strategies for employers of all sizes.This partnership has created an organization unparalleled in the benefits industry. We can offer an expansive portfolio of outstanding products, technology, compliance resources and personal service.
These capabilities assist in overcoming the challenges employers face, while helping meet the needs most critical to employees’ security and well-being, including:• Medical, Dental, Vision• Life/AD&D• Group Short Term and Long Term
Disability• State-Mandated Disability• Section 125 & 132 Plans (FSA/
Transit/Premium-Only)• Voluntary & Executive Carve-Out
Programs (Life/Disability Income/Long Term Care)
• Umbrella Liability• 401(k) and Qualified Retirement
Programs (Lenox RPC™ Platform)• Deferred Compensation• International Welfare & Pension• Travel Accident• Wellness Programs• COBRA• FMLA
PUTTING SERVICE AND ACCESS TOGETHER FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Fee-based financial planning services offered through Lenox Advisors, Inc. Lenox Advisors, Inc., offers access to securities and asset management services through MML Investors Services, LLC., 530 5th Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10036, 212-536-6000, member SIPC. Investment adviser representatives of Lenox Advisors, Inc. offering fee-based financial planning services may also be registered representatives and investment adviser representatives of MML Investors Services, LLC. for purposes of offering securities and asset management services, as applicable. Lenox Advisors, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP). Lenox Advisors, Inc and NFP are not affiliates or subsidiaries of MML Investors Services, LLC. Services offered through Lenox Advisors, Inc. as an Independent Registered Investment Advisor are not sponsored or offered through MML Investors Services, LLC. CRN201008-106235 © 2012 Lenox Advisors All rights reserved.
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Our client list is diverse, across a variety of industries, and they include:
• Jefferies Group • Investment Bank
• Silver Point Capital • Hedge Fund
• OppenheimerFunds® • Financial Services
CORPORATE BENEFITS
HEDGE FUND EXPERTISE
Securities offered through registered representatives of MML Investors Services, LLC, 530 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10036, 212.536.6000. Investment Advisory Services offered through Lenox Advisors, Inc. Lenox Advisors, Inc. is not a subsidiary of, nor affiliated with MML Investors Services, LLC. Lenox Advisors, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Financial Partners Corporation [NFP], a financial services holding company, New York, NY. NFP is not an affiliate or subsidiary of MML Investors Services, LLC. #78007 © 2012 Lenox Advisors, Inc. All rights reserved.
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With a long history of having hedge funds as clients, Lenox Advisors has developed a unique niche within that industry. Whether it’s designing cutting-edge benefits packages, establishing customized Executive Carve-Out Programs or installing non-qualified Deferred Compensation plans, hedge funds look to Lenox across the spectrum of corporate services.
On the personal front, senior executives and PM’s at hedge funds also hire Lenox to be their exclusive CFO. The Lenox Personal CFO™, the firm’s proprietary platform for streamlining the financial planning process, enables Lenox to coordinate those clients’ financial affairs, eliminating the need for multiple advisors.
These capabilities and skill sets make Lenox the single-source Wealth Management firm hedge funds rely on for both corporate and individual services, including:
HEDGE FUND CORPORATE CLIENT SERVICES
Lenox Corporate Benefits
• Lenox Advisors Group Benefits differentiates itself by having the technology and resources of a large operation, but providing the personal attention of a smaller, specialized firm.
• The bSwift Platform is a key resource— a complete internet-based HRIS tool lets HR administration track, monitor and update hedge funds’ employee records. And it’s all paperless.
Corporate Carve-Out Programs
• Lenox Advisors’ team of professionals helps hedge funds make informed decisions about the best choices for their companies. The firm also provides a full range of support services for hedge fund clients: from acting as the liaison with carriers and vendors to planning and executing employee communications and education programs.
Lenox RPC™ (Retirement Plan Consultancy)
• This unique set of proprietary tools and processes, designed to minimize administrative requirements while maximizing sponsor oversight and employee information, analyzes, monitors, and tracks corporate qualified retirement plans.
HEDGE FUND PRIVATE CLIENT ADVISORY SERVICES
The Lenox Personal CFO™
• Our unique, proprietary service platform aggregates and coordinates senior hedge fund executives’ financial matters, such as:
– Family Office Services – General Financial Planning – Estate Planning
– Asset Allocation Strategies and Monitoring – Children’s College Funding
– Risk Management/Insurance, including Life, Disability Income and Long Term Care Insurance
• Ancillary Services for both corporate and individual hedge fund clients (in partnership with specialist accounting firm)
– Fund Level Accounting/Audit Services – Tax Services – Bill paying
– Management Company/General Partner Level Accounting Services
ComplianCe issues
ComplianCe QuiCk RefeRenCe GuideThis compliance reference resource highlights basic group health and pension plan reporting and disclosure responsibilities required under the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and other Federal mandates, as well as model language for some required communications.
Plan Documents
Section 125 Cafeteria Plan Document
Summary Plan Description (SPD)
Summary of Material Modification (SMM)
Summary of Material Reduction in Covered Services or Benefits
Form 5500 and Schedules
Summary Annual Report (SAR)
Initial COBRA Notice
COBRA Election Notice
Notice of Unavailability of Continuation Coverage
Notice of Early Termination of COBRA Coverage
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
Certificate of Creditable Coverage
General Notice of Pre-existing Condition Exclusion
Individual Notice of Period of Pre-existing Condition Exclusion
HIPAA Privacy Policies and Practices
Notice of Privacy Practices
HIPAA Security Policies and Practices
HIPAA Breach Notifications
Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA)
Michelle’s Law
Mental Health Parity
Employer CHIP Notice
Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO)
Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
404(c) Compliance
404(c) Disclosure Notice
Individual Benefit Statements
Safe Harbor Notice
Automatic Enrollment Notice
Medicare Part D Disclosure to CMS
Notice to Employees Regarding Employer Contributions to HSA
Notice of Special Enrollment Rights
Medicare Part D Notice to Eligible Individuals
Medicare Section 111 Reporting
Taxation of Group Term Life Insurance
T axation of Same-Sex Benefits
Discrimination Rules and Testing
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health ProtectionAct (NMHPA)
stay in CheCk
The Compliance Checklist is not inclusive of all health and pension plan regulatory requirements and is current as of March, 2010. Therefore, the checklist should not be relied upon as a plan’s sole resource for compliance matters. © 2012 Lenox Advisors, Inc. All rights reserved.
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