Home Contact Us Client Services: Login Information Request Form Specialty Programs: General & Trade   Contractors Home Builders Commercial Firms Mortgage Brokers &   Lenders Public Officials &   Notary Publics Insurance Agencies Firm Profile: Overview Management Team Why Us General Information on Bonding: Basics of Surety Bonding Bond FAQ's for Contractors Case Studies Surety News Surety Bond Product List RKA Newsletters: Subscribe for Electronic   Delivery via E-Mail Recent Newsletters Complete List & Index Owner/Obligee Services: Bond Validation Why Bond a Project?	Agency Profile Over Two Decades of Experience For over two decades, Robert Keith and Associates, Inc. has been serving the surety bonding requirements of a wide range of clients throughout the midwest and across the country. With our tight focus on surety, we bring a uniquely seasoned and experienced perspective to optimizing your surety program. Our customers find us a trustworthy business advisor - a valuable resource as we assist and advise them with surety, accounting, financial and operational challenges and solutions. Financial Performance & Volume We are pleased to report continued strong growth within our agency structure. Every year, we mark our progress in terms of active accounts, new accounts, and total premium volume - and we are consistently amazed with how far we have come since the agency was founded in 1984! Our volume marks us as one of the top bond agencies in the country. Surety Markets One of our real strengths is the portfolio of sureties we are aligned with and can access to best meet your surety needs. The sureties we represent combined for well over 50% of the total surety premium written in 2002, and include balanced representation within the premium, standard, and specialty markets. With over two dozen sureties at our disposal, we have the markets to optimize your surety program. Whether your objective is to maximize your per job program or your aggregate bonded program, minimize your rate, or you are looking for a surety to assist you in working through a difficult business recovery, or are just new to bonded work, we have surety companies interested in supporting your business. Underwriting Our approach to underwriting your account and advising you is straightforward. Your time is valuable, as is ours. You can count on us to be: Discrete - private, personal and confidential information you share with us will NEVER be released without your approval and knowledge Forthright - following our data-gathering and analysis of your business, we will share specific, actionable steps you should consider taking to achieve your stated objectives Knowledgeable - you will benefit from our years of surety bonding experience Thorough - many times, it's digging through those last little details that overcomes the concerns of the surety and wins the support you require Diligent - simply, we won't rest until you are satisfied The Internet, Technology and Automation Our bond-focused production and invoicing business system leads the industry in the efficient and error-free production of bonds, as well as in providing the support and management tools necessary to service our customers and sureties. Whether you examine our bond production system, our underwriting information imaging and storage system, or our accounting system, you will find tight integration of rich & productive business functionality. Our agency will continue to invest in technology and our business applications, to keep our agency on the leading edge of technology. We endeavor to communicate electronically whenever advantageous, and can afford our clients industry-leading and internet-enabled access to bond requests, activity reports, renewals - and even electronic bonds when allowed. Our Mission Simply stated, our corporate mission is to help our clients succeed, thereby generating our own success. We will remain tightly focused on serving your surety bonding needs. Our Standards We seek to achieve our corporate purpose while adhering to these standards: Striving to make a positive difference in people's lives by attaining the highest standards of integrity in all our relationships with our clients, our sureties, our employees, and the public Acknowledging, accepting and honoring the various fiduciary responsibilities we assume on behalf of our clients and sureties Assuring that all our team members understand our corporate mission, standards and objectives; and that they are appropriately equipped, trained and supported as they endeavor to meet your needs Encouraging a strong commitment to supporting your business, thereby driving our success Summary We would welcome the opportunity to meet you and explore how we can assist you and your business. Please feel free to contact us - just ask for one of our licensed representatives. In Chicago area call us at (630) 694-5445, and outside Chicago feel free to use (800) 824-9023.
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