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If you have pre-approved 403b plans, how do you amend them to include dual status language? In Tech Talk, Susan Diehl addresses this, as well as whether doing so would cause the plan to lose its pre-approved status.
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The ERISA consultants at the Retirement Learning Center Resource regularly receive calls from financial advisors on a broad array of technical topics related to IRAs, qualified retirement plans and other types of retirement savings plans.
A recent call with a financial advisor from Massachusetts...
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What do you do if things have changed a great deal since you entered the financial services industry? In MarketBeat, Brad Corbin argues that one way to adapt to the changing world of the 403(b) is to take control of it by careful business planning and disciplined implementation, and outlines a four...
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Suppose your pre-approved 403(b) plan does not exclude residents of Puerto Rico, but your PPA defined contribution plan does. What do you do? In Tech Talk, Susan Diehl discusses what can be done in such a situation.
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State Legislative Update is an occasional feature that provides the status of bills before state legislatures relevant to NTSA members.
Pension Reform
Colorado. SB 18-200 would allow new employees to choose between the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) defined contribution plan and...
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As a 403(b) advisor, if you’re able to implement a set of best practices in the plans you serve, then everyone wins: you, the employer and the existing participants. In MarketBeat, Jim Phillips offers simple, practical ideas he argues will improve an advisor’s value in a crowded 403(b) marketplace...
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How can one make a charitable donation with a required minimum distribution (RMD) from a 403b? In Tech Talk, Susan Diehl tells us.
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Editor’s Note: ERISA Tips is a provided with you in mind — to make the newsletter more useful to you! If you have any content for ERISA Tips or the 403(b) Advisor that you would like to contribute or suggest, please contact John Iekel, editor of the 403(b) Advisor, at [email protected]....
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Suppose you’re a young advisor looking for any way to build my business — or a not-so-young advisor who wants to do the same thing. In MarketBeat, George Webber argues that seminar presentations are a great way to market your services and offers tips for using them.
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The plaintiffs in a 403(b) university plan excessive fee lawsuit have been allowed to add another claim to that suit: that fiduciaries failed to protect plan assets by allowing third parties to market services to participants.
Federal Magistrate Judge Joe Brown of the U.S. District Court for the...
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A non-profit entity has a 401(k) plan and qualifies to sponsor a 403(b) plan. In Tech Talk, Susan Diehl tells us if it may do so under a set of specific circumstances.
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Another one of the initial 403(b) university plan excessive fee suits has had its day in court.The suit, filed against Northwestern University in 2016 by the law firm of Schlichter Bogard & Denton, had argued that Northwestern in 2016 “eliminated hundreds of mutual funds provided to Plan...
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Editor’s Note: ERISA Tips is a feature provided with you in mind — to make the newsletter more useful to you! If you have any content for ERISA Tips or the 403(b) Advisor that you would like to contribute or suggest, please contact John Iekel, editor of the 403(b) Advisor, at jiekel@usaretirement....
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The IRS has announced that it has updated its Issue Snapshot, an online publication, concerning qualification requirements for non-electing church plans under Code Section 401(a).The Issue Snapshot notes that such a plan must satisfy certain IRC requirements that were in place before the Sept. 1,...
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Editor’s Note: ERISA Tips is a feature provided with you in mind — to make the newsletter more useful to you! If you have any content for ERISA Tips or the 403(b) Advisor that you would like to contribute or suggest, please contact John Iekel, editor of the 403(b) Advisor, at jiekel@usaretirement....
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State of the State Houses is an occasional feature that provides the status of legislation before state legislatures relevant to NTSA members.Open Provider AccessOklahoma. Companion bills OK HB 1339 and SB 1056 would modify the Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System by authorizing the system to...
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Roughly a year to the day after first filing suit, plaintiffs and the University of Chicago have entered into a class action settlement for a $6.5 million cash payment and changes to the university’s $3 billion plan.
The comes several months after a federal judge reinstated claims he had...
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There has been increasing interest in the market to put together Multiple Employer Plans for 403(b) plans, and with good reasons. In MarketBeat, Robert Toth writes that tax-exempt entities are really well-suited to the sorts of economies of scale that a MEP can bring, but a 403(b) MEP is “really...
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Editor’s Note: ERISA Tips is a feature provided with you in mind — to make the newsletter more useful to you! If you have any content for ERISA Tips or the 403(b) Advisor that you would like to contribute or suggest, please contact John Iekel, editor of the 403(b) Advisor, at jiekel@usaretirement....
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