FAQs
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1. Are you an employee benefits agent, broker or consultant?
Traditionally an insurance agent only represents one health, disability or life insurance company. An independent broker or consultants is not beholden to any one carrier and represents multiple vendors.
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2. Who are your existing clients?
At Alliant, we serve as an independent employee benefits broker and consultant to over 10,000 employer plan sponsors nationwide. This includes 120 of the Fortune 500 largest firms in the U.S.
We were founded to provide the strategy of a global consulting firm with the day to day service of a local broker or agent.
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3. How are you compensated?
We are compensated through either commissions paid to us by the insurance carriers or through a flat fee or ongoing retainer paid by our clients.
Since each client is unique, we tailor our services to suit our client’s particular needs. Our firm provides every client with a Services Agreement and Compensation Disclosure, in accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations Act (“CAA”).
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4. Can your team help us benchmark our current employee benefit plan offerings?
Yes, our benchmarking tools enable us to compare your company’s existing benefits with normative peers by industry, geography, size of firm, and other variables. Our analytic tools will even calculate how much you could save or need to invest to align with benchmarks.
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5. What is the best way to get started?
I always recommend as a first step that we schedule an introductory discussion so that we can meet and learn about your unique needs. If there is interest, we can then provide an overview of our firm, capabilities and ways we can help.
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6. What areas do you serve?
Our firm is located in over 140 offices throughout the United States.