About Us

Pension Advisory Group, Ltd. works with over 500 retirement plans and over 500 plan sponsors. Our clients are medical and business professions as well as consultants, manufacturers, and service organizations. We also work with attorneys and accountants to make sure we are meeting our clients' needs and keeping their plans compliant with Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation rules and regulations.

We have been serving the small employers with retirement plan services since 1999.

Our office is located at 175 East Hawthorn Parkway, Suite 405, Vernon Hills, Illinois 60061-1468. Our telephone number is (847) 680-3867 and our fax number is (847) 680-3869. Our general e-mail address is pag@pagltd.com.

Our People

Dennis M. Reddington, MAAA, MSPA
Owner/Officer

Dennis M. Reddington has over 25 years' experience performing actuarial and administrative services for pension plans and qualified retirement plans. He worked for HPLS, The Weiss Organization, Administrative Management Group, and Buck Consultants before founding Pension Advisory Group, Ltd. with Steve Johnson in 1999.

Dennis prepares or supervises all the actuarial, proposal and design work for the defined benefit and cash balance plans Pension Advisory Group, Ltd. handles.

Dennis is an enrolled actuary, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA) and a member of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (MSPA).

E-mail: dennis@pagltd.com

Steven J. Johnson, CPA, QPA, QKA
Owner/Officer

Steve Johnson is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Qualified Pension Administrator (QPA), and a Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA).

Steve has been in the retirement plan field since 1988 when he started at the IRS as a retirement plan auditor and plan document reviewer. Since then, he worked as a retirement plan consultant providing administrative and actuarial services for small, defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans starting at Hessel & Associates and continuing at Administrative Management Group, Inc. Since 1999, Steve has been a co-owner of Pension Advisory Group, Ltd. in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

E-mail: steve@pagltd.com

Jason Van Winkle, QKA

Jason has over 20 years of experience with qualified retirement Plans and joined Pension Advisory Group in 2022. He started out as an assistant to Plan Consultants at Merit Benefits Group in 2001, and worked his way up to designing incoming Plans, educating Plan participants on Plan features, and correcting major Plan issues. He specializes in audit assistance and all types of compliance testing. His mission is to make Plan consulting as efficient and easy to understand as possible for all Plan Sponsors.

E-mail: jason@pagltd.com

Jonathan Mays

Jonathan has experience across all aspects of the Financial Services Industry since beginning his career in 2010. He started as an auditor and tax preparer in public accounting in which retirement plans were one of his specialties. After gaining experience in the public accounting realm he focused on Retirement Plan Administration for a Trust & Investment Group where his responsibilities included education, consulting, wealth management, DC plan design, and compliance for DC plans.

Since joining Pension Advisory Group Ltd. in 2017, Jonathan helps plan sponsors maintain compliance for qualified retirement plans such as defined contribution, cash balance, and defined benefit.

E-mail: jonathan@pagltd.com

Shane N. Johnson

Shane has a managerial background and promotes our hardworking environment. His responsibilities include tax form preparation, Required Minimum Distribution calculations, Non-discrimination Testing, Benefit Calculations, Annual Report preparation, research projects, and plan compliance. Shane assists companies with Cross-tested, Defined Contribution, Defined Benefit, and Cash Balance plans.

Shane is resourceful pertaining to retirement plan fundamentals.

E-mail: shane@pagltd.com