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Why The Kieckhefer Group?

The Kieckhefer Group is a leading retirement planning firm, providing sophisticated consulting services that create a strategic framework for retirement plans and plans that seek wealth accumulation. Through our innovative and non-proprietary solutions, we are positioned to help employers and employees address their needs.

Retirement Planning Services

There are many financial products in the market, and so choosing the ones that best meet an individual client’s needs can be complicated.

 

Retirement Plan Design Assistance

As a part of the plan design process, we will help you: Balance your employee’s needs and your business objectives. Identify your business goals in order to recommend strategies and solutions. Assist with designing a plan that will help you attract and retain employees.

 

Investment Monitoring and Selection Help

Our organize-formalize-implement-monitor System helps you follow a fiduciary process that seeks to ensure that the investment options included in your company’s plan meet the criteria identified in your Investment Policy Statement.

 

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation

We are using Nonqualified Deferred Compensation (NQDC) plans to do the following: Reward and retain key executive with state of the art deferred compensation plans. Provide “golden handcuffs” for key executives so that they stay on the job.

 

Fee Disclosure and Benchmarking

The Kieckhefer Group can help you: Determine if your plan has competitive and reasonable fees. Benchmark fees relative to peer groups. Uncover hidden fees in your current plan Assist in fee negotiation.

 

Review and Reporting

As a fiduciary, it is your responsibility to know and understand how participants are utilizing the plan and how the investments are performing.

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Working With Us

When working with us, you have access to an experienced, professional team that can help you create a strategic framework for retirement plans, and plans that seek wealth accumulation. Our service begins with listening to your goals and objectives in order to suggest programs to address both employer and employee needs and goals.

 

How We Help

The Kieckhefer Group provides independent financial consulting services to corporate, non-profit, and individual clients. Our team of advisors is committed to act in the best interest of our clients by conducting our business with integrity and holding ourselves to the highest fiduciary standards.

 

A Process, Not a Product

Implementing each of these factors is vital to a plan’s success. At The Kieckhefer Group, we understand that every client has different needs. Our structured approach is matched with a personal analysis of each factor to create the right plan for both the Plan Sponsor and Plan Participants.

Executive Benefits - NQDC Plans

Who might benefit from a nonqualified deferred compensation plan?

  • Company executives
  • Employees looking to contribute in excess of qualified plan limits

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Robert “Rob” Kieckhefer

Managing Partner, Retirement Plan Consultant

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Robert “Rob” Kieckhefer

Phone: 414-852-9595

Email: rob.kieckhefer@kieckhefergroup.com

Rob is the founder and Managing Partner of The Kieckhefer Group. Focusing his securities career on retirement plans, Rob works closely with business owners by assisting them with their investment and retirement planning needs. Rob attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, earning a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering.

Rob previously served on the EdVest 529 College Savings Board as Head of Investment Commitee, as an appointee of the Wisconsin State Department of the Treasury and the Governor. Rob holds the FINRA series 7 and 66 registrations, as well as his Wisconsin life and health insurance licenses. He and his wife, Maryglen, currently reside in Mequon, Wisconsin.

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Evan Salmela

Partner

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Evan Salmela

Phone: 414-704-3826

Email: evan.salmela@kieckhefergroup.com

Evan Salmela joined The Kieckhefer Group in 2021. He traded S&P options as a floor trader at the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) for 12 years, before making the switch to wealth management. Evan holds a Bachelor's degree in Business, with a concentration in Finance, from Cornell University. He earned his CFA charter and is a member of the CFA Society of Milwaukee. Originally from Whitefish Bay, Evan graduated from University School of Milwaukee in 2001. A lifetime hockey player, he went on to play 4 years of college hockey at Cornell. He currently resides in Lake Bluff and is married with 3 girls.

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Latest Blog Posts

10 steps to pick a target-date fund - USA TODAY
Dec 21, 2022 by The Kieckhefer Group

Robert Kieckhefer, a managing partner with the Kieckhefer Group in Mequon, Wis., suggested in a recent article in a trade publication that employers consider ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story

(presented here for your perusal...)

By Robert Powell  -  Special for USA TODAY

Key Points

Target-date funds...

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Why Nonqualified Deferred Compensation?
Sep 15, 2022 by The Kieckhefer Group

Why Nonqualified Deferred Compensation?

 

There are a lot of reasons to set up a Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan and many of those reasons are becoming more compelling than ever.

  1. Highly compensated employees are often in the highly compensated category for a short time period and with a short window to save before retirement
  2. Taxes are going up for the highly compensated and taxes limit savings...
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Retire to Happiness: Tips to Thrive in the Next Chapter of Life
Sep 29, 2016 by The Kieckhefer Group

Here’s a thought: retirement doesn’t mean the end. It doesn’t mean an end of self-importance or purpose, it just means a new chapter—a paradigm shift of what life is beyond long days and meetings and bosses. Unless you own your own business, and even then, you are not your business. You’re not solely defined by the question, “What do you do?” But, it doesn’t mean you should stop defining the answer for such an inquiry in your retirement era....

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Rob Kieckhefer

Phone: 414-852-9595
Email: rob.kieckhefer@kieckhefergroup.com


Evan Salmela

Phone: 414-704-3826
Email: evan.salmela@kieckhefergroup.com

1323 W. Towne Square Rd., Mequon, WI 53092


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