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Some Information about our Company
John Hannah Corporation is a privately-held company
whose principals have a background in employee benefit plan work dating to 1978.
Since 1990, the company has been actively and exclusively engaged in benefit
plan design, administration, and consulting.
We are a small team of skilled,
experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds and training.
Our
clients are quite varied, including professional practices,
manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, and service providers.
We
have worked with virtually every category of employee benefit
arrangement, qualified and nonqualified, funded and unfunded.
It
has been our privilege to work closely with our clients' accountants,
attorneys, investment counsel, brokers, and insurance advisors.
We are a small team of skilled,
experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds and training. Individual
members of our staff have:
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Designed qualified and nonqualified retirement
plans for over twenty years.
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Administered benefit plans for more than
fifteen years.
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Obtained an advanced law degree in taxation.
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Taught
Advanced Pension topics in a law school graduate tax program (to
experienced ERISA attorneys).
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Worked many years in the Examinations and
Employee Plans divisions of the IRS.
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Represented plans in audits, both IRS and DOL,
ranging from severe compliance problems, to our own regular clients with
fully compliant plans.
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Obtained a management degree with a Human
Resource Management focus.
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Worked in an accounting department of a small
business.
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Practiced as an attorney with experience in
ERISA litigation, representing both plan sponsors and participants.
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Developed computer systems and software
specifically designed to respond to the needs of the smaller employer.
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Accumulated technical experience with numerous
payroll programs, in various operating systems.
Our
clients are quite varied, reflecting different
industries, sizes, business structures, and objectives, including:
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Professional practices,
manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, and service providers.
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One
to several hundred employees (though our limit is 500).
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Sole
proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations,
and groups of related companies.
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Targeting
benefits to one or a group of key employees, or committed to uniform
benefits.
We
have worked with virtually every category of employee benefit
arrangement, qualified and nonqualified, funded and unfunded. Even within
these categories, our experience has been broad-based, including plans:
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Funded by insurance products, individual
securities, common trust funds, mutual funds, real estate, partnership
interests, and combinations of these media.
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With investments management and advice provided
by investment counsel, brokers, insurance agents, trust departments, and
knowledgeable individual trustees.
It
has been our privilege to work closely with our clients' accountants,
attorneys, investment counsel, brokers, and insurance advisors. Because
we sell no investment products, we are involved with an extensive array
of legal, tax, accounting, and investment professionals. Each of these
professions brings valuable skills to the benefits design and
administration process. We attempt to provide these colleagues with
tools that will aid them in serving their customers and clients, and to
blend our expertise with theirs to the benefit of our mutual clients. In
fact, it is most often through referrals by other professionals that
John Hannah Corporation is engaged.
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