Take This Pension And Shut IT!: How closing your pension plan can save your company and motivate your employees

This book can help business owners, CEO's, CFO's, and Human Resource Professionals as they go through the decision making process of shutting down their retirement plan. Furthermore, it can be distributed to the employees of organizations that have decided to shut down their retirement plan. The examples in this book will help employees understand the difficulty of shutting down a plan, as well as the thinking behind the decision. The critical decision of shutting down your pension plan can be daunting but necessary. Not only because of the complicated process that needs to be followed, but also because of the emotional effect it can have on employees. "Take this Pension and Shut it" walks through the challenges faced by business owners and employees alike, and shows different routes that a business owner can follow as they close their retirement plan down. It will also touch on ways to keep employees motivated throughout the process.

Clinton Brown, CFP®, ChFC, CLU, CASL® Clinton’s firm focuses on working with businesses in exploring and finding benefit strategies for their owners, including analyzing viability of shutting down their retirement plans. Clinton graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® (CFP®), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), and a Chartered Advisor for Senior Living (CASL®) which are well respected designations within the Financial Services industry offered by The American College.