Employee Benefit Network

Profion's network: Strong partners, renowned Employee Benefit consultants and broker

For years, we have been working together with strong partners, with worldwide renowned Employee Benefit consultants and brokers. In our consulting services, we consider country-specific stipulations and customs and, with the support of our international partners, we are in a position to prepare analyses and comparative statements of the benefit schemes of companies' foreign subsidiaries in almost all countries worldwide.

Advantages for international companies

Our international network structure is of particular advantage for worldwide operating companies. With our know-how, we transfer international benefit and funding philosophies in national benefit packages.

International know-how for our clients

We regularly organize joint meetings with our network partners abroad, hold webinars and participate as speakers at international Employee Benefit conferences. In this respect, our worldwide business contacts and partners, with whom we have a permanent exchange, show their great value. And you as a client benefit from our international know-how.

Strong partnerships for integrated benefits

In addition to our pro-active role in global networks, we cultivate long-standing relationships with national business partners comprising e.g. tax consultants and auditors as well as insurance brokers, financial and HR consultants. Together, we service start-up companies from founding via office management to compensation consultancy – integrated all-in-one service.

Excerpt of Profion's national business partner network

SÜDVERS GROUP is a long-established, medium-sized and owner-operated insurance brokerage headquartered in Au near Freiburg with six further subsidiaries in Germany. The company has been in existence since 1948, is one of the ten leading members of the Association of German Insurance Brokers (Verband Deutscher Versicherungsmakler e.V. (VDVM)) and has at its command the Worldwide Broker Network (WBN), which SUEDVERS founded in 1987 together with independent, foreign insurance brokers. As experienced industrial insurance broker, SÜDVERS GROUP's key objective is to analyze existential risks for national and international companies and their employees and to elaborate and implement for their clients attractive, custom-tailored coverage concepts. The company's foci comprise industrial insurance, risk management, liability insurance, credit insurance services, pension provision and balance sheet protection. Member of SÜDVERS GROUP is among others also SÜBERA GmbH, a consultancy for company pension schemes with its subsidiaries SÜBERA & Kasper GmbH, actuaries for company pension schemes, as well as B&F Consulting.

Caninenberg & Schouten GmbH is an internationally operating insurance broker for risks associated with film productions, media, sports, events and entertainment. Caninenberg & Schouten is a renowned specialist for property damage liability for consulting professions and entrepreneurs, for risks associated with real estate, IT and multimedia as well as industry and commerce.

Independent, integrated consultancy is Dr. Lutz Beratungsinstitut's strength. Dr. Lutz Beratungsinstitut offer Profion's clients in close coordination and project management actuarial calculations or reports for pension plans and similar employer benefits (working time schemes or anniversary payments, etc.). If required, the respective liabilities can, of course, be valuated according to national as well as international accounting principles.

Buse Heberer Fromm partnership is a full service office that provides consulting services with more than 120 practicing professionals (lawyers, auditors, tax consultant) in all areas of economic law and tax law. Buse Heberer Fromm provide consulting services to companies, public institutions and wealthy private individuals in all relevant questions of economic law. The main areas of activity are in particular company law, tax law as well as labor law. Due to the partnership's high level of expertise in taxation and law, Buse Heberer Fromm is in a position to provide target-oriented consultation in particular in the founding as well as reorganization of companies. The partnership is represented at the following locations: Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Milan, Munich, New York, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Sydney and Zurich.

As strategic partner, taxo supports companies in the scope of all HR services. taxo's main focus is on the consultancy and implementation of structural and personnel processes of change as well as on the monitoring of organizational developments as part of the development of companies. taxo disposes of resulting know-how, experience as interim managers and longtime operative activities in senior management positions of international group companies. taxo develops solutions that have a measureable and lasting effect.

VZ VermögensZentrum is specialized in investment consultancy and financial planning for private clients. Independent from banking institutes and insurance companies, VZ develops individual solutions and optimization proposals. VZ pursues an integrated approach with the objective of increasing the return, minimizing the risk and reducing the tax burden. Each of its concepts is tailored according to the personal needs of its clients. For its services, VZ charges a fee that is subject to the expenditure of time. As professional investment consultant, VZ manages securities portfolios in strict confidence - cost-efficient and profitable.

Further partners Profion is, for example, working together with:

Margret Kisters-Kölkes is a lawyer and tax consultant situated in Mülheim/Ruhr. For a long time she has been especially committed to the field of company pension schemes, holds seminars and is established through a multitude of publications on company pension schemes.

Excerpt of Profion's international business partner network

WBN, the Worldwide Broker Network Ltd., is one of the largest networks of independent insurance brokers in the world today. Founded in 1989 as International Broker Network, it has turned into an integrated global insurance brokerage distribution system with in the meantime more than 15,000 employees and a premium volume of USD 28 billion. At the moment, its membership comprises 70 firms in 79 countries. The existing network is WBN's strength, providing it with the capability to offer each internationally active client tailor-made concepts. The partnership commits its members to offer the best possible service to their local key accounts and small and medium-sized companies alike.

Globex International is an international consultancy for Employee Benefits, risk management and insurance services, which through its team's experience and connections is in a position to support its partners and their clients across their respective national borders. The difference between Globex and other internationally operating networks is their alliance with independent partners. Their aim is and always has been the bringing together of their multinational clients' needs with the most appropriate concepts. This originates from fully understanding the requirements of worldwide subsidiaries and their integration in respective corporate strategies.

IBIS Advisors are specialists for international HR management. For over 12 years, they have supported more than 200 multinational companies in 90 countries. IBIS Advisors designs competitive Employee Benefit schemes for employees who are regularly seconded to several countries. The company originated from the renowned reporting service IBIS (International Benefits Information Service), which had been in the market for already 36 years. IBIS Advisors offers the complete service portfolio of global HR Services accompanying the entire HR life cycle. IBIS has offices in Los Angeles, California; Hartford, Connecticut and Washington, DC as well as in Mexico City and the Netherlands.

International Employee Benefit Solutions, Inc. (IEBS, Inc) is an independent consulting company that offers its clients international Employee Benefits solutions and support in the cost efficient management of non-US benefit schemes. IEBS' team has extensive experience in the insurance industry, in the design and administration of benefit plans and in the implementation of global insurance solutions. In addition, IEBS offers services in the areas of global benefit management, multinational pooling, M&A, etc.

Global Benefits Associates, GBA, is a company with a team of international Employee Benefit experts, which is dedicated to provide its clients with added value for their international benefit systems. GBA supports them in the cost-efficient and competitive management of their retirement provision schemes implemented outside of the US while taking into consideration the worldwide corporate philosophy. GBA's international Employee Benefit experts have many years of experience in the areas of actuarial mathematics, design & administration of corporate benefit systems and global insurance solutions. GBA has local subsidiaries in the USA, Canada and Europe, which work in close cooperation with their worldwide affiliated partners.

In addition, we have - outside of the stated networks - further renowned international cooperation partners, like for example: