Newport Group believes that investment managers should be selected and monitored using a well-defined process. Our dedicated team of research analysts combines both quantitative analysis and qualitative research in order to identify investment managers we believe will provide superior long-term performance.
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You may have pay inequality at your firm and not even be aware of it. Taking a deeper look at pay practices and amounts across is critical in establishing equitable pay across all roles and areas of your organization.
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Managed Account services are an increasing trend among plan sponsors. As noted in the 2017 edition of How America Saves, 27% of plans offer managed account advice, and because larger plans are more likely to offer advice, half of plan participants have access to a service.
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Employers who maintain non-qualified deferred compensation plans or other supplemental employee retirement plans for their senior executives and other highly compensated employees may want to consider establishing a “rabbi trust” (so named because the first such arrangement was established by a synagogue to provide deferred compensation to its rabbi).
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Three Questions with Rena Somersan, Managing Principal, Newport Group's Compensation Consulting Services
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This article addresses recent tax law developments affecting non-qualified deferred compensation plans sponsored by publicly traded corporations and non-public organizations that are required to file statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Thirty-eight of the largest banking institutions in the United States will be subject to the Federal Reserve’s 2018 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) – up from 34 in 2017.
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Under Code Section 409A, an annual salary deferral election generally applies to all salary earned during the calendar year. If this concept were to apply to salary earned during the last payroll period of the year that crosses into the next year, human resources would need to identify the salary earned on or before December 31 and the salary earned after December 31, apply the appropriate deferral elections to each portion, (iii) communicate the two components of deferred compensation to the plan’s record keeper in order to assign the appropriate payment schedule to each portion and then (iv) communicate the combined deferral amount to payroll for processing.
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Are distributions from Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans subject to state income "source" tax (i.e. can the state in which the income was earned impose its state income tax on the distributions from the plan, even though the recipient resides in a different state when reeicing the distribution)? The answer is "yes" unless the distribution meets one of two requirements.
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Walnut Creek, CA—October 19, 2017—Newport , a leading provider of retirement, insurance and consulting services, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Evercore Trust Company’s institutional trust and independent fiduciary business.
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