Donald Simon, Simon Financial Company (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 443)
Donald Simon, the owner of Simon Financial Company, presented many of the issues which arise in buy-sell agreements and how he serves clients by providing financial planning and insurance to protect business owners. He joined host John Ray to discuss why many buy-sell agreements are not written properly and do not account for potential risks, his solutions for being prepared, pre-funding for retirement, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Simon Financial Company
Simon Financial Company was founded by Donald J. Simon in 1983. Don loves helping business owners increase the value of their company using unique, time-tested methods.
Simon Financial Company provides to a diverse mix of 350+ business owners and nonprofits Talent Retention Plans, Business Succession Planning and Estate Planning.
Simon Financial Company’s clients include a very diverse mix of individuals, companies (blue-collar to high tech), professionals, and non-profit organizations.
Donald Simon, Owner, Simon Financial Company
Donald Simon is a Certified Financial Planner, a Chartered Financial Consultant.
Don has been the owner of Simon Financial Company since 1981 and has helped over 350 businesses of virtually all types.
Don is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) with the College for Financial Planning, Washington DC and Denver, CO. Don is also a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) through The American College, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He is also a Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) through the National Association for Financial Advisors (NAIFA) Falls Church, VA. and is also a member of NAIFA. This knowledge coupled with his many years of experience is an important commitment to advise each client properly.
He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Oglethorpe University, Atlanta Georgia. He is a Member of the Marietta Business Association (MBA) and is the author of The Zen of Personal Finance.
Questions and Topics in this Interview:
- What are the elements of a business succession plan?
- Why do most buy-sell agreements end up failing?
- Why do most companies have a business valuation that ends up in court?
- Why is funding for buy-sell agreements often a cause of failure?
- What can a company do now to remedy these problems?
- How expensive is it to fix these problems?
North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
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