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Who We Serve
Our team understands that some cases need advanced, tailored planning strategies to achieve success. That’s why we assist agents, advisors, and other financial planning representatives in finding sophisticated solutions to clients’ unique financial situations, working with their legal, tax, family office, and wealth advisors for a comprehensive and informed approach toward case design.
How We Serve
Our deep, collective expertise allows a holistic, sophisticated approach toward:
- Ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) planning
- Premium funding strategies
- Estate/wealth planning
- Business succession planning
- Specialty markets
- Foreign Nationals
- Charitable planning
- Special needs planning
- Private placement life insurance solutions
We distill the technical into actionable solutions by providing:
- Case design and consultation
- Carrier-agnostic product design and selection
- Our proprietary fact finder tools for delineation of client assets and goals
- Life Concepts, Highland’s proprietary presentation system to customize and illustrate sales strategies for your clients
- Access to our PACE (Policy Review Comparative Evaluation) platform
- Underwriting for large, complex cases
- Training and continuing education
- Full suite of marketing materials and resources
- Tax, legal, and legislative updates and thought leadership articles
- Advanced case design support
Who We Are
Our Advanced Planning team holds outstanding educational and professional credentials with strong backgrounds in estate, business, charitable, and life insurance planning. We pride ourselves on our distinct strengths in and creative hands-on approach to sophisticated, custom case design.
Mike Raczkowski, J.D., CFP®
SVP, Head of Advanced Planning and Underwriting
Tom Ellefsen, CLU®, ChFC®
Director, Advanced Case Design
Lee Heidgerken, MBA, CLU®
Assistant Vice President, DI Distribution
Howard Jonas, CLU®, ChFC®, REBC®, CASL®
Vice President, Advanced Planning
Alicia Olivas
Product Analysis Specialist & Team and Business Development Associate
Nancy Simm, CLTC, LTCP, CSA
Director, LTC & Longevity Planning
Maurice Sturm, J.D.
Vice President, Marketing & Advanced Planning