ICOLI can provide improvements to your investment returns, but how do you handle this asset on your books? ICOLI Accounting ICOLI accounting is straight forward. GAAP Reporting ICOLI surrender value is reported as an “Other Asset” …
Basic Accounting for ICOLI
ICOLI can provide improvements to your investment returns, but how do you handle this asset on your books? ICOLI Accounting ICOLI accounting is straight forward. GAAP Reporting ICOLI surrender value is reported as an “Other Asset” …
Moving Out of State? Don’t Forget about the Source Tax
One well known, yet unexpected result of the COVID-19 pandemic was the mass exodus of individuals out of city centers. For many, that exodus extended to moving out of state, particularly for those seeking to move from high to low income tax states.
How REITs Can Hedge an Employee Benefit
Informally funding a DCP without Triggering Distribution Requirements
In order for Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITS”) to maintain their designated tax treatment status, they must meet the annual REIT testing requirements. REITS are required to distribute at least 90% of taxable income in the form of dividend payments to their shareholders. Income realized through the growth of mutual funds – even to pay an employee benefit – must be included in the taxable income calculation, causing significant shortfalls when plan balances rise.
The Fundamentals of Insurance Company Owned Life Insurance (“ICOLI”)
According to statutory filings, North American insurance companies own more than thirty-billion dollars of institutional life insurance. This Article explores the basic attributes of ICOLI, the applicable tax and regulatory structure, the available investments, the process to acquire ICOLI and how insurance companies deploy this strategy to outpace yield earned on traditional investments.
How to Battle the Great Resignation with Deferred Compensation Plans
Executive Summary
This article explores how a company can use a deferred compensation plan (“DCP”) as a tool to overcome the executive recruitment and retention challenges produced by “The Great Resignation”.
Are Deferred Compensation Plans (DCPs) an Executive Perk?
No, DCPs restore lost savings opportunities and fit in an egalitarian culture.
Many companies say yes. Here are the reasons why:
Issue: Highly compensated employees (HCEs) are in fact discriminated against by 401(k) contribution limits and testing. In 2022, an HCE is defined by the IRS as having total compensation of $135k or more (IRC Section 415).
Record Group Insurance Death Claims in 2021
Last year, group life insurance companies experienced a record number of death claims. Two recent reports include:
MetLife’s adjusted quarterly earnings in the U.S. group-benefits unit plummeted 95% to $20 million, from $383 million the year-earlier with increased deaths of younger people (i.e., those under age 65) with employer-sponsored benefits. MetLife paid out $1.06 for each $1 of group-life-insurance premium collected.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan (DCP aka 409A) Participant User’s Guide
For most companies, preparing a request for proposals for third-party administrators (TPAs) of nonqualiNed retirement plans is a relatively infrequent occurrence, compared with doing so when seeking TPAs for other types of beneNt plans. For that reason, companies may not follow some best practices for creating such RFPs.
BOLI Market Update – 2Q 2021 Further Contraction of Treasury Yields
Fed Signals Rates Will Stay Low – Purchases Accelerate in Q4 Into the twelfth year of historically low interest rates, and with the Federal Reserve announcing rates will not move until 2023, several headwinds continue to put a damper on bank earnings.