Retirement Plan Services
Our Retirement Plan Services Group provides a full range of retirement plan administration services, including plan design, document preparation, and annual administration in coordination with your own legal and financial advisors. Whether you are thinking about starting a new retirement plan or want to optimize your existing plan, our open architecture platform combined with extensive plan design, fiduciary insights and regulatory expertise can alleviate much of the administrative burden and cost while maximizing allowable contributions.
Retirement Plan Services
Design
- Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plans
- Cross-Tested/New Comparability Plans
- ESOPs
Documentation
- Plan and Trust Documents
- Summary Plan Descriptions
- Plan Administration Packets
- Funding and Investment Policies
- All Annual Notices
Annual Compliance/Review
- Review plan status with your Investment Advisor, CPA and Attorney
- Controlled Group Issues
- Legislative and Regulatory Developments
- Prohibited Transaction Reviews
Administration/ Compliance
- Eligibility/Participation/Vesting of Participants
- Contribution calculations
- Nondiscrimination and other testing (including cross tested/new comparability methods)
- Allocation of earnings
- Benefit distributions and tax withholding requirements, lost participants
- Governmental filings – Forms 5500/ 1099-R
- Participant disclosures
- Surety bond compliance
- Participant loans and hardship distributions
- Beneficiary designations