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Regulates, private sector, qualified retirement plans |
ERISA |
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Employer responsible for funding |
Defined benefit |
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Employer and employee funded |
Defined contribution |
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Defined contribution plan where the employer contributes portions of company profits |
Profit-sharing plan |
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What type of 401(k) plan that is funded with after-tax dollars? |
Roth 401(k) |
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Defined contribution, establish by smaller employers individual retirement account, establish for each qualifying employee |
Simplified employee pension (SEP) |
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In SEP employees must be fully vested in all contributions |
Immediately |
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Defined contribution, adopted by small businesses of 100 or fewer employees |
Savings incentive match plans for employees (SIMPLE) |
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This plan can be established as an IRA or a 401(k) |
Simple |
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For employees of not-for-profit organizations or public school systems |
403B plan |
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Defined contribution, plan, and subject to ERISA regulations |
Employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) |
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What is the tax penalty on a premature distribution? |
10% penalty |
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What is the tax penalty on excess contribution? |
6% |
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What is the tax penalty on a failure to make required minimum distribution? |
50% penalty on taxable portion |
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What does a non-qualified retirement plan mean? |
Does not the ERISA standards |
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I plan for the employees income is deferred to a later date, and often only available to senior management |
Deferred compensation plans |
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A nonqualified deferred compensation plan that may be government or non-government |
457 plan |
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A type of retirement account that has contribution limits has tax deferred growth and can be set up for a spouse |
Traditional IRA |
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Investment choices in a traditional IRA can include anything except |
Life insurance |
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Tax-deductible IRAs are 100% taxable as |
Ordinary income |
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Trustee to trustee, beneficiary never touches the assets, no tax implications |
Transfer |
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Beneficiary takes possession of the funds, must be moved to a new retirement account. Within 60 days, taxes and penalties will apply, may only occur once a year. |
Rollover |
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What do traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs have in common |
Same annual contribution limits and catch up provisions |
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Contributions are made on after tax basis there’s no required minimum distribution investor must be below income threshold in the entire growth is tax free |
Roth IRA |
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Notre to convert a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, Texas must be paid on the taxable portion of |
Converted funds |
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Have to do with new issues and the primary market |
Securities act of 1933 |
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Has financial liability, and his paid from the underwriting spread |
Underwriting syndicate |
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Has no financial liability, but assist the underwriters in selling new issues |
Selling group |
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How long is the cooling off period |
Minimum of 20 days |
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US government securities agency securities, and Municipal securities are all |
Exempt security |
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Regulation D has to do with |
Private placement Offerings |
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Defines an accredited investor |
Rule 501 |
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Deals with offerings of less than $10M in any 12 month period |
Rule, 504 |
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Issuers can raise an unlimited amount of money |
Rule 506 |
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Accredited investor’s need to follow what rule |
1-2-3 rule |
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Rule _____ means that majority of employees must be based in the state |
147 |
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Evidence of ownership, has a limited liability, and is last in the liquidation priority |
Common stock |
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Equity security, cannot vote, and interest rate sensitive |
Preferred stock |
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Debt obligation of a corporation can be secured or unsecured |
Corporate bond |
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Legal agreement on terms of the loan |
Trust, indenture |
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Backed by specific collateral |
Secured bond |
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Backed by the full faith and credit of the issuer |
Unsecured bond |
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Dentures, subordinate, dentures, guaranteed bonds, income bonds are all examples of |
Unsecured bond |
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Mortgage bonds, equipment, trust certificates, and collateral. Trust certificates are all examples of. |
Secured bond |
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All corporate debt issues are subject to |
Interest rate risk |
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Short term, sold at a discount, (4,13,26,52 weeks) |
T-bills |
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Intermediate term, 2 to 10 years, sold at par |
T notes |
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Long-term 10 to 30 years sold at par |
T-bond |
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Principal amount is adjusted semi annually based on changes in CPI, no inflation risk |
Tips (treasury, inflation, protected securities) |
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Is a direct obligation of the US government and is zero coupon security |
T strips |
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Guaranteed by the government, monthly payments to investors, a principal and interest |
GNMA pass through certificates |
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The risk of Paying it off ahead of time |
Pre-payment risk |
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The risk of not paying it off in time |
Extension risk |
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New issue underwriting requires a |
Official statement |
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With new issues, the official statement must be provided to the |
MSRB |
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Filing of official statements and program disclosure documents |
EMMA (electronic municipal market access system) |
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Tax equivalent yield for Municipal |
Municipal yield /(100%-tax bracket %) |
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Net yield for corporate |
Corporate yield X (100%-tax bracket %) |
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T bills, commercial, paper, bankers, acceptance, negotiable CDs and T notes and T bonds with less than one year to mature are all |
Money market securities |
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Commercial paper matures in |
270 days or less |
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Finance foreign trade |
Bankers acceptance |