Corporate Pensions
Corporate Pensions
There are several ways to best set up your Executive Pension Plan dependent on your individual circumstances. Our job is to provide he broadest range of investment choices, with minimum cost aligned to your investment risk profile and sustainability preferences.
Our advice based private executive pension plans are set up on a master trust basis for maximum governance and include 24/7 online portal access. Annual reviews and benefit statements are provided as standard and help us to develop a trusted and beneficial long-term relationship.
Corporate Pensions
We offer multi-asset diversification to manage risk, but also allow a choice of passive and active management, as well
as a mix of fund manager strategies by way of a bespoke portfolio design.
We provide all this focused on the most competitively costed outcomes, offering huge choice which includes over 23 leading
domestic and interantional fund managers to ensure next level client value.
Corporate Pensions
A company may make whatever contributions are necessary to build up a pension fund which will provide a director with a pension of 2/3rds of their final pensionable salary – subject to a maximum fund value of €2.15m (for allowable tax-relief). Come retirement, when you’re ready to take your benefits, your options are to take a tax-free lump sum and buy an Annuity which is a paycheque for life or having taken your lump sum to reinvest the balance in an ARF and make income withdrawals from that.
You can draw a tax-free lump sum based on your salary and service to a maximum of 1.5 times final remuneration where you have more than 20 years of service or you can take a lump sum based on 25% of the value of the pension pot. A limit of €500,000 applies to the tax-free lump, with the first €200,000 is tax-free and the balance up to €500,000 is taxed at 20%.
An annuity pays a retirement income for the rest of your life in exchange for the balance of your pension pot at retirement.
An ARF allows you to retain your pension pot at retirement, subject to minimum withdrawals, and can be passed on to your family on death.
Corporate Pensions
Questions & Answers
All you need to know in regards to your executive pension plan.
Apart from it providing an income in retirement, an Executive Pension is the best and most tax-efficient way of extracting cash for your own benefit or for that of company executives from a limited company.
Yes, all private pension holders are still entitled to the State pension in addition. Currently, the current State Social Welfare Pension is only: €248.30 per week. The contributory pension starts at age 66 and the non-contributory not until age 67. Executive pension plan benefits can be taken from age 50 onwards and will not reduce your State pension benefits.
You can, but you don’t have to. The role of the Trustee can be an onerous one and for many companies that are focused on running their own business an overhead and time constraint that they don’t need.
One Quote Financial Brokers currently arrange free Master Trustee services for all new executive pension plan schemes.
An executive pension plan provides full tax relief on contributions, as well as tax-free fund growth and a tax-free lump payment option come retirement. This means;
When it comes to the company making the contribution on your behalf, as is the case with an Executive Pension, there is a range of factors in determining how much can be contributed, which we have listed below. However, the important point is that your company can invest a lot more than you can personally and still benefit from tax relief! Whilst, in addition, the maximum retirement fund that you can build up is 2.15M, and if choosing to take the annuity route over the ARF route the maximum pension you can take is 2/3rds of your final pensionable salary.
The maximum contributions that can be paid to your Scheme by you and/or your employer will depend on your personal circumstances including company service and salary.
Subject to the above, there is no limit to how much you can contribute but tax relief on personal contributions is restricted. Only contributions paid by you will be considered for the purposes of determining maximum contribution limits for tax relief purposes, which equate to a % of net relevant earnings (annual salary) and increase with age starting from 15% under age 30.
Employers can pay regular or single contributions to their executive pension. An executive pension can also accept transfers from other executive pensions as well as previous group schemes – these would usually be paid as electronic fund transfers from other institutions.
Employers can pay a single contribution at any time into an executive pension. This can be done instead of, or as well as, paying regular monthly or annual contributions.
Senior employees and non-executive directors can make regular contributions on the same basis as their employer with the combined contributions payable through company payroll. They can also make one-off lump sum payments within Revenue Limits via EFT.
We compare charges and investment performance of all leading insured and self-directed pension providers. We ensure that the recommended pension plan option, matches your appetite for investment risk and that any charges are fully transparent and kept to a minimum. We also offer you full online access to your pension plan from inception, with regular investment performance reviews.
In the event of death before retirement, 4 times your annual remuneration at the date of death can be paid to your dependents, together with a refund of any personal contributions to the plan.
The balance can be transferred to ARFs for spouse/dependants.
Post-retirement where you have already invested in an ARF, on your death the ARF can be transferred into your spouse’s name free of PAYE or Capital Gains Tax.
You can now retire from age 50 and take 25% of your fund tax-free, under an executive pension.
If you have to stop working due to serious ill-health, you can take your pension benefits earlier than these stated ages!
Once you have taken your 25% tax-free, you can choose to reinvest the balance in an ARF (investing in funds for tax-free growth as before) and make regular and ad hoc withdrawals to provide an income.
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