CCG Overview
COMPREHENSIVE CONSULTING GROUP (CCG) was founded in 1971 and is a highly successful, private, family-owned firm. CCG is a fee-only consulting group and is not a broker.
CCG serves over 5,000 clients. Many have been clients for 30 years or more.
CCG provides health care, pension, and investment plan consulting, design, and administration services to every size group. We currently handle groups as small as 7 lives and as large as 7,000 lives.
We are completely independent, we are experienced, qualified, committed, detailed and obsessed with providing complete client satisfaction through excellent service.
Some members of our senior management team have worked together for over 30 years and there is no member of our senior team who has less than 20 years industry experience.
CCG capabilities and resources can be best understood by examining our three of our Core Values:
- Fiduciary [Not Broker] Standards
- Full Accountability
- Service—Performance is Reality
FIRST CORE VALUE:
FIDUCIARY [NOT BROKER] STANDARDS
Our primary core value is: Fiduciary [Not Broker] Standards.
CCG maintains an unswerving, non-negotiable commitment to its Fiduciary [Not Broker] Standards philosophy.
This means we have a duty to put your interests ahead of our own—always.
CCG maintains that without upholding its fiduciary standards, it is impossible to serve a client as a trusted advisor, perform in an unbiased manner, and be free of all conflicts of interest.
As compensation is always at the root of bias and conflicts of interest, CCG contracts with each client:
- To operate with a fee-only compensation structure that creates zero incentive to make a recommendation to a client based on compensation.
- To make a clear identification and disclosure of all sources of compensation.
- To always disclose every cent of our compensation and what we have done to earn it.
- To make a clear identification and disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest.
CCG guarantees by contract, that the only compensation we will ever accept is with your direct knowledge and prior approval.
CCG will never take a commission, unless we are mandated by state law to do so. In such cases, we will disclose any commission received and credit it against our consulting fee.
Further, if there is ever any other form of compensation paid to CCG by a vendor for a product or service we recommend to you, we guarantee, by contract, to disclose such compensation and to apply it against our consulting fee.
Accordingly, CCG operates on a pure FLAT FEE basis that is not indexed to the out of control increases in underlying costs such as medical costs and insurance premiums.
You’ll never have to wonder if a recommendation is being made because CCG is being paid by someone else to make it.
CCG’s Three Divisions
CCG has three divisions to give its clients a complete range of benefits services. Each division works in accordance with the CCG Fiduciary [Not Broker] Standards philosophy.
CCG Benefits
CCG Benefits focuses primarily on health care plan design, plan implementation, plan administration, and cost containment.
CCG Pensions
CCG Pensions focuses primarily on employee benefits plans, plan design, plan administration and actuarial services.
CCG Investments
CCG Investments focuses primarily on specialized investment advisory services to companies with qualified retirement plans.
SECOND CORE VALUE:
FULL ACCOUNTABILITY
Another of our Core Values is: Full Accountability.
CCG is unique in the benefits consulting world as it offers its clients an unrivalled two component service structure that enables full accountability.
- Plan Consulting and Design—
to Fiduciary [Not Broker] Standards - Plan Implementation and Administration Services
When the plan is designed and delivered, someone has to be responsible for the implementation and ongoing administration of the plan.
CCG has proven that unless Plan Implementation and Administration Services are under the immediate control of the consulting firm, the client is left with split accountabilities.
The CCG two component structure ensures that CCG is always fully accountable for the performance of its recommended plan.
THIRD CORE VALUE:
SERVICE—PERFORMANCE IS REALITY
Another of our Core Values place a unique emphasis on Service:
“Talk is talk, words are words…performance is reality.”
Harold S. Geneen, former CEO of ITT, used this wonderful phrase in his outstanding book, Managing. In a world filled with so much talk, so many unfilled promises and such mediocre performance, it is becoming increasingly difficult to be able to believe the “talk” of many companies. At CCG, we have made it part of our culture to make the reality of performance the measure of our success, not talk.
And at CCG, this is our Service Standard:
“Promise only that which we can deliver, then deliver everything that was promised and more.”
