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October 5th, 2022
Insight on Plan Design & Investment Strategy Every Weekday
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| ECONOMIC EVENTS |
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New orders for manufactured durable goods in August, down two consecutive months, decreased $0.5 billion or 0.2% to $272.7 billion, unchanged from the previously published decrease. This followed a 0.1% July decrease. Transportation equipment, also down two consecutive months, drove the decrease, $1.0 billion or 1.1% to $92.0 billion. New orders for manufactured nondurable goods increased $0.5 billion or 0.2% to $275.7 billion.
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| MARKET MIRROR |
Tuesday, the Dow increased 825.43 points (2.80%) to close at 30,316.32, the Nasdaq gained 360.97 points (3.34%) to finish trading at 11,176.406 and the S&P 500 increased 112.50 points (3.06%) to close at 3,790.93. The Russell 2000 gained 66.90 points (3.91%) to close at 1,775.77 and the Wilshire 5000 increased 1,201.13 points (3.27%) to close at 37,945.72.
The price of the 10-year Treasury note was unchanged and the yield decreased to 3.638%. The price of the 30-year Treasury note decreased 4/32 and the yield increased to 3.704%.
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ASK THE EXPERTS
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When Can an Employee in a 457(b) Plan Use A Three-Year Catch-Up Election?
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We are a private university who sponsors, among other plans, a 457(b) plan for our select management and highly compensated employees. The plan contains the three-year catch-up election for employees who are within three years of the normal retirement age of the plan (which in our case is 65). Our question is, can the employee actually use the election in the year in which he/she turns age 65 if he/she qualifies? We have an employee who turns age 65 in 2022 requesting that she use the election, but we think it might be too late for her to use the election, as she would have had to use it in the years that she turned ages 62, 63, and/or 64 if eligible. Are we correct?” 
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EVENTS
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Your HSA Questions Answered
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Summary Join PLANSPONSOR and industry experts for a webinar October 13 during which you will increase your understanding of health savings accounts by comparing features to those of defined contribution plans, learn how to position HSAs on your menu of benefits, and hear tips for increasing employee engagement with HSAs. Register today.
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SURVEYS
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DC Survey Now Open
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For more than 20 years, PLANSPONSOR’s annual Defined Contribution Survey has provided benchmarking data for nearly 50 industries/business sectors and for 401(k), 403(b), and other DC plans, as well as nonqualified plans. Represent your industry and plan type by participating, and you’ll receive a free benchmarking report.
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ON THIS DATE: General George Washington wrote to the president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, to inform him that a letter from Dr. Benjamin Church, surgeon general of the Continental Army, to Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Gage, British commander in chief for North America, had been intercepted. In 1921, the World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. In 1947, Harry Truman delivered the first-ever presidential speech on TV. In 1959, Maya Lin, an artist and the architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. and other public sculptures, was born. In 1970, PBS began broadcasting on U.S. television, and it has become known for various programs, notably the children’s shows Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (starring Fred Rogers). In 2001, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire’s single-season home-run record when he hit his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season and finished the season with 73. In 2011, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., died at age 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer. In 2017, The New York Times published a detailed investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against film producer Harvey Weinstein. The bombshell report led to Weinstein’s eventual arrest and conviction on charges of rape and other sexual misconduct.
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| Industry Intel Roundup—Featured Webinars | | PLANSPONSOR is pleased to present the next edition of our Industry Intelligence roundup. This week, we are featuring webinars sponsored by experienced providers in the industry. The content was created to educate, inform and offer ideas for plan sponsors regarding plan design, investing, administration and compliance. |  | | September 19, 2024 | | Financial Wellness | | Plan sponsors, advisers and policy experts will offer suggestions for how best to define and measure the financial wellness of participants and drive financial confidence. The panel will also review how they evaluate the myriad new offerings appearing as a result of the voluntary benefits provisions of SECURE 2.0. Attendees will come away with tangible metrics for determining which programs will offer the most useful and valuable programs for their employees. |
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| | | December 12, 2024 | | Plan Benchmarking | | How do plan sponsors determine the right goals for their plans or measure plan success? What tools are available to benchmark retirement plans? What should plans be measuring and how often? What kinds of actions or improvements can measurements drive? These questions and more will be answered in PLANSPONSOR’s final editorial webinar of 2024. |
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|  | | SPONSORED BY: Principal Financial Group | June 26, 2024 | | Best practices to manage defined benefit plan costs and risks | | Defined benefit plan sponsors are faced with a myriad of challenges when assessing the impact of plan costs and risks across their organization. Join our panel of pension specialists and learn about the:
- strategies to reduce Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums.
- value of accurate data. - benefits of consolidating service providers.
- importance of re-examining the DB plan formula.
- advantages of hedging risk before and after a pension risk transfer. |
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|  | | SPONSORED BY: Corebridge Financial | June 20, 2024 | | The Future of Work in an Aging World | | A combination of longer life expectancy and plunging birth rates has created a very different demographic future, especially in industrialized countries. In the US, we are entering Peak 65®, the period when most of the Baby Boom generation will have already retired, and by the end of this decade, people over the age of 65 in the US will outnumber people under the age of 18 for the first time ever. Over the last century, the population over the age of 65 has grown at a rate five times faster than the total population and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Other countries have begun to feel the consequences of aging long before the US. In Japan, 30% of the population is already over 65, and 10% is over 80. Countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore have already begun to reshape work, retirement, health care, and housing rules to prepare for the “silver tsunami”.
These changes will have profound implications on everything from how we work to how and when we retire to how we think about healthy aging.
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|  | | SPONSORED BY: Newport, an Ascensus company | June 13, 2024 | | Gain the Edge: Navigating NQDC Trends | |
Recent changes in the nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan landscape present new opportunities for employers. Tap into the latest trends—and use them to your advantage.
Newport, an Ascensus company, and PLANSPONSOR have partnered to bring you the 2024 Newport/PLANSPONSOR NQDC Trends Survey. Don’t miss this year’s webinar, where our experts will share critical insights from the report.
Leveraging data from over 268 of the country’s leading employers, this report is the retirement industry’s broadest and most comprehensive employer view of NQDC plans. |
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