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Participant Access And Education

Internet
Our interactive Web site is constantly changing and evolving to better meet the needs of our valued clients.  We are now on our 4th version and are excited about what is to come.

Currently each participant can:

  • View updated account balances and vested balances
  • View a breakdown of balance
  • View information by fund
  • View existing loan information
  • Reallocate current balances
  • Reallocate future contributions
  • Use our loan modeling application
  • Use our retirement modeling calculator
  • Read plan information and definitions
Participant Access And Education

Participant Access And Education

Look for new updates in our Web site to include:

  • On-line enrollments

  • Transaction history/summary

  • Participant personal rates of return

  • Plan Sponsor access to trust records

  • Automated loan transactions

  • Self-directed brokerage account

VRU (Voice Response Unit) English & Spanish

1-800-925-401K Voice Response System functions currently include:

  • Press 1 for Balance Inquiries - Total Balance, Vested Balanced, Balance by Fund, Current Investment Elections, Balance by Source
  • Press 3 for Investment Election for Future Contributions
  • Press 4 for Realignment of Existing Balances
  • Press 5 for Loan Information - Existing Loan Balances, Maximum Loan Available, Loan Modeling
  • Press 6 for Hardship Availability
  • Press 7 for Balance Projections
  • Press 0 to Connect to a Customer Service Representative

Call Center - Representatives are available from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CST

Our bilingual service representatives can provide participants with balance, loan, hardship withdrawal, distribution status and investment choice information.  Participants can also choose to realign current balances, change investment elections, request forms and change their PIN.

Quarterly Statements

Our statements will be delivered no later than 15 business days after each quarter end. They contain a personal rate of return and a simple easy-to-read format.

Newsletter

"Retirement & Investing Insights" is an award winning quarterly participant newsletter.  The newsletter is a high quality communications piece that offers four pages of sound retirement planning and investment education.  The newsletter can either be bulk shipped to the plan sponsor for distribution or included as an insert with participant statements.

Insights Retirement & Investing

Investment Scoreboard

Scoreboard:   One-page spreadsheet with customized investment performance information for Quarter-to-date, Year-to-date, One-Year, Three-Year and Five-Year Returns.  This piece also has a market commentary and is distributed quarterly.


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