Cash Balance Plans Explained - 2024
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Amber M. Lloyd, Managing Member and Owner of RMS, began her career in retirement plan administration and consulting in 1994. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Business Administration with high distinction and departmental honors in Finance and over the years has become credentialed as an Accredited Pension Administrator, a Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor designee, a Certified Financial Planner™ certificant, and an Enrolled Retirement Plan Agent. Throughout her 30 years in the retirement field, she has worked on all types of retirement programs, including both qualified and non qualified plans and often speaks on retirement plan topics. Amber is an active member of the National Institute of Pension Administrators, the ESOP Association (where she currently serves as a executive member of the KY Chapter), the National Center for Employee Ownership, the ESOP Marketplace, and the Financial Planning Association (where she currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Board for the Kentuckiana Chapter and was the 2018 President). She is also Past President of the Louisville Employee Benefits Council and former Board Member for Mummers & Minstrels, a local non-profit community theatre group. Amber currently devotes most of her time to new business development, consulting on 401(k), Profit Sharing, and Employee Stock Ownership Plans and heads up the firm’s ESOP Practice Group.
Cash balance plans offer high contribution limits and flexibility. Read More >
According to the IRS, one of the most common mistakes that employers make when administering their retirement plans is using the wrong employee compensation. Read More >
An “unbundled” service arrangement for plan administration provides many advantages to an employer. Read More >
ESOPs will be indirectly impacted by the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Read More >
Read the service provider 3(16) contract closely to see if you are really getting enhanced service and reduced liability for the expense. Read More >
A 1042 Election can have significant tax advantages for the seller to an ESOP, but there are strict requirements related to this election, as well. Read More >
Some feel that in the coming decades the ownership to be promoted will be an employee’s ownership in his or her employer – through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). Read More >
A unique problem arises when the owners of a company are ready to sell more shares to the ESOP, and they want the ESOP to borrow money in order to purchase the shares. Read More >
A new Accounting Standards Update reaffirms the indefinite deferral of disclosures that were scheduled to take effect on Form 5500 filings for 2012. Read More >
When we perform an ESOP feasibility study for a client that already has the successor management in place, and has available a certain amount of cash flow to apply toward buying out... Read More >
Employers express various concerns when they consider establishing an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Read More >
The Internal Revenue Service made it clear that the right to be invested in employer stock is not a protected benefit. Read More >
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