Our Services
We are a full service consulting and administration firm, that ensures that the needs of you and your employees will be met. We offer a complete menu of retirement plan services. Click below for details of the services provided.
- Plan Design and Implementation
- Defined Contribution Plan Recordkeeping and Administration
- Defined Benefit Plan Actuarial Services and Administration
- Annual Compliance Testing and Government Reporting
- Consulting Services
Selecting, customizing and implementing a plan is daunting. Our professional staff guides you through this process and educates you to choose what is right for your company:
- Review any affiliated company issues.
- Design a plan tailored to the needs of the owners, employees and the business itself.
- If we are taking over a plan already in existence, we will review the existing plan provisions and recommend changes to fully meet the employer's goals and objectives.
- Prepare plan documents as required by the IRS.
- Prepare the request for an IRS determination letter, if applicable.
- Prepare the Summary Plan Description required to be distributed to plan participants.
- Meet annually, or more often, to discuss changing design goals.
- Prepare customized enrollment and administrative materials.
- Conduct employee meetings to communicate the provisions of the plan.
We perform the following services in order to provide for smooth and efficient plan operation:
- Do all non discriminate testing to allocate optimal contribution.
- Calculate employee eligibility and plan entry.
- Calculate participant vested percentage statements.
- Allocate employer and employee contributions and earnings of the plan.
- Distribution processing: Calculation of distribution amount, preparation of required distribution notices, release forms and IRS Form 1099-R.
- Loan processing: Set up of loan accounts, preparation of promissory note and amortization schedule and tracking loan repayments.
- Hardship withdrawal processing.
- Trust Account Asset Reconciliation.
- Prepare Participant Statements.
- Monitor age 70½ distribution requirements.
Our professional staff has the expertise and up-to-date technology to provide the necessary actuarial and administrative assistance to manage your defined benefit plan:
- Do all testing to insure IRS non discriminate statutes are satisfied in optimal manner.
- Calculate employee eligibility and plan entry.
- Determine eligibility to receive benefit accrual.
- Prepare Annual Actuarial Report and Valuation Certification.
- Actuarial determination of required employer contributions.
- Preparation of individual benefit statements and vesting.
- Distribution processing: Calculation of distribution amount, preparation of required distribution notices, release forms and IRS Form 1099-R.
- Contribution deductibility calculations (§404).
- Non discriminant of Benefits testing (§404(a)4).
- Annual additions testing (§415).
- Top heavy testing (§416).
- Coverage testing (§410(b)).
- ADP/ACP testing (applicable to 401(k) plans).
- Preparation of IRS Form 5500 and related schedules.
- Preparation of Summary Annual Report for participants.
- Preparation of appropriate PBGC form (for certain defined benefit plans only).
- Plan Redesign
- Plan amendments, terminations and mergers.
- Assist with IRS and DOL audits.
- Conduct special plan or participant benefit studies or projections.
- Compliance Issues