New York, NY – Insurance Business America (IBA) has named Gregory Schaefer, president and CEO of Schaefer Enterprises, Inc., to its 2016 IBA Top Producers list. The honor, which is chosen by industry peers, is the latest in an impressive list of industry awards recently won my Mr. Schaefer and his company.

The IBA’s unique “handicap” methodology places producers in markets both large and small on a level playing field to find the country’s best performers.

“It’s a great honor to be included in this list of the industry’s top performers,” Schaefer said. “Our business continues to grow in impressive fashion because we never lose sight of what got us here: a business model that is precisely aligned with our clients’ goals – to keep costs down and long-term security up.”

Schaefer Enterprises, Inc. is a Manhattan-based insurance agency specializing in all aspects of business, personal and program insurance. In addition to offering insurance products for business, construction insurance, employee benefits, health insurance and medical malpractice insurance, Schaefer offers a wide selection of unique programs to suit the needs of specialized businesses, such as industry-specific coverage for urgent care centers, food and supermarkets, and non-profit insurance.

The firm also offers captive Insurance, which is also referred to as ‘self-insured.’ Captive insurance offers non-insurance companies the opportunity to address unique risk management needs by creating their own insurance vehicles while offering key benefits such as tax deductible premiums, asset protection, and tax efficiencies that are favorable to both the accumulation of premiums and distributions to the parent company.

In addition to Mr. Schaefer’s latest honor from IBA, Schaefer Enterprises was recognized in 2015 and 2016 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America by Inc. magazine. He was also recently named a SmartCEO 2016 Future 50 Award Winner, which recognizes a handful of chief executives in the region whose companies have demonstrated remarkably consistent growth and performance.

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