About Us
ABV Welfare & Retirement Plan Advisors is one of the country’s top benefit compliance advisory firms with offices in Indianapolis, Indiana. We serve brokers of employee benefit plans (health, welfare & 401(k) plans), financial advisors, PEO's and affinity associations throughout the U.S. The firm’s primary consulting specialty is ERISA-related compliance for employee benefit plans and preparation of IRS Form 5500. ABV stands for Advice, Benefits, Vision.
ABV is the perfect outsourcing solution for groups struggling with limited staff and resources in a complex environment of increasing regulation. Our clients can stay focused on their business, like customer service and retention and on revenue generating activities. Our competitive distinction is the ability to draw on and deploy decades of knowledge acquired from working at large, nationally recognized EB consulting, insurance brokerage, and accounting firms. We use the most contemporary technology in helping employers understand and monitor their benefit plan compliance responsibilities.
Our quest is client-centric solutions, expertise and leading technology to help you serve clients well and stay focused on running a profitable business. To learn more about how about how we might be able to help your business prosper, inquire at the Contact Us section of this website.
Principal
Anne Branigin Vandeveer
Anne is the President of ABV Retirement & Welfare Plan Advisors, Inc. She is an accomplished employee benefits consultant specializing in employee benefit plan compliance and related issues.
She founded the company over ten years ago following a decade of work with several national benefit consulting and accounting firms including Mercer, Coopers & Lybrand and BKD. She specializes in both welfare benefit plan Form 5500 compliance & defined contribution plan consulting. Anne has also provided extensive consulting on DOL & qualified plan audits, defined contribution recordkeeping platforms and general Form 5500 compliance.
She now serves many insurance brokerage firms across the country from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. Her firm has a longstanding partnership with the Indianapolis-based law firm, Krieg Devault, LLP, for the most technical issues and peer review related to governmental reporting, nondiscrimination testing and related compliance. As a matter of course, she often works closely with independent accounting firms for ERISA tax and financial issues.
Anne is a graduate of Purdue University, with a BS in Mathematics. She, her husband and their two children reside in Carmel Indiana, where she is very active in her children’s PTO and their academic and athletic activities.
Consultant / Compliance Data coordinator
Elizabeth ("Beth") Wissler
Beth is an accomplished employee benefits consultant specializing in plan administration related to the entire Form 5500 filing process.
She began her career on the carrier side, at Metropolitan and CNA and moved onto the consulting side, leading the marketing and proposal analysis group at Aon Consulting (formerly Alexander & Alexander). She has also raised 3 children, teaching at their private, Catholic high school for several years and also working in healthcare as an education developer.
Beth is a graduate of the College of St. Benedict in Minneapolis. She and her family reside in Indianapolis.
SENIOR CONSULTANT / Alliance Partner
Fred ("Fritz") Hewelt, III, CEBS
Fritz is a senior advisor to ABV with over 30 years experience with a multitude of employee benefit consulting knowledge but who specializes in H&W plan nondiscrimination, namely Section 105(h) testing.
He began his career at Mercer in Chicago and after a move to Minneapolis with Towers Watson to lead their H&W Practice, he gained most of his compliance experience while serving as a leader at Aon Hewitt's National Tax & ERISA Practice and serving on their Benefits Standards & Compliance Committee. Fritz is a regular speaker at national seminars for professional organizations on the subject of H&W statutory compliance.
Fritz is a graduate of Elmhurst College and holds several professional designations including his CLU, FLMI and CEBS. In his free time, he enjoys time with his grown children and their children, winter sports, wine and driving his sports car.