BC Financial Services

Financial Services in BC

You’ve built your business and attracted a team of skilled employees, through significant dedication of time and resources. Have you made plans to protect and invest in your efforts – and to ensure the future of your business?

Our Acera Insurance advisors can assist you by developing a financial plan that provides the funding mechanisms you need when you need them most. Whether you are starting a new venture or maintaining a successful one, we bring decades of experience and specialized expertise to create a custom solution that will support your growth.

Our custom financial solutions for businesses include:

Corporate Financial Risk Solutions

Corporate financial risks are found in events that can significantly affect the health and future of your company. These can include the financial impacts that arise from the sudden death or disability of key employees, or the tax and financial implications of the departure of key shareholders. Acera Insurance has customized solutions that keep your operations running:

Group Benefits

As a division of Acera Insurance, Acera Benefits helps BC employers design competitive, cost-effective employee benefits plans in an ever-changing health and wellness environment.

Investment Planning

Many of our clients wonder what they should do with their retained earnings held by their company. A corporate investment portfolio can offer some distinct tax advantages compared to personally investing the money. We assist our clients by building a tax differed corporate investment strategy regardless of whether the funds are intended for long-term business growth or retirement. Our team draws upon a suite of investment and insurance tools for these purposes. High net worth investors have access to our integrated Private Wealth Planning team.

Estate & Succession Planning

Many business owners will be approaching retirement over the next 10 to 15 years. However, few have likely made any succession or estate plans to transfer ownership. Others have questions about changes to business ownership:  How do you sell or pass down your business to your children, and maximize the value?  How are capital gains taxes paid in the event of a premature death of a business partner or owner? How can we maximize the value to be passed onto family or charity? We assist clients with all of these concerns and reducing the overall impact of taxes. We draw upon a suite of tax preferred products and the creative use of permanent life insurance.