Defined Contribution | TPA
Defined Contribution TPA
Penad is a specialist in Third Party Administration (TPA) services and is ready to take care of your Defined Contribution (DC) pension plan. The DC component of Penad’s Montreux TPA service package (we also provide Defined Benefit administration) is a comprehensive solution for both pension plan sponsors and for institutions with books of DC business.
Penad supplies banks and insurance companies with pension software to manage their books of DC business and utilizes this same technology platform for our TPA clients. We can track and administer an unlimited number of individual and group pension accounts comprised of any number of investment vehicle types: unitized funds, interest bearing funds, GIC (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) and term deposits.
The Montreux TPA service package for DC plans includes:
- Respond to member enquiries
- Process member contributions and other deposit types including the distribution of investment gains/losses
- Issuance of Member Statements of account at any frequency covering any period
- Process member Inter-fund transfers (by unit, percentage, or dollar amounts)
- Process member withdrawals
- Process member termination, retirement, death, and marriage breakdown calculations (according to applicable legislation and the respective rules of the pension plan)
- Send/receive member option forms
- Apply local pension legislation
- Complete Government information returns
- Issue benefit settlement instructions to trustee/custodian
- Issue Buy/Sell orders to Fund Managers
- Annuity placements
- Processing of member “what if” pension calculations and ad hoc reports
- Web portal for plan sponsors, employers, members, and other stakeholders
DC TPA Services
Montreux TPA is a comprehensive service package where Penad takes care of every pension administration detail on your behalf. The DC TPA component of the Montreux TPA model delivers six integrated administration processes and services.
Data Acquisition & Plan Installation
We tailor our internal system to the unique regulations, tax reporting/withholding, and other particulars of your jurisdiction and pension plan and can also handle multiple currencies and any language of member correspondence. During plan set-up, data audit and purification services are available, and Penad will issue membership certificates to all members, as well as providing the plan sponsor with an Administration Guide including forms and supplies for new transactions.
Communicate
Penad receives and coordinates communications between the key entities and all stakeholders involved in providing the pension plan: Plan Sponsors, Employers, Fund Managers, Trust/Custodian, Annuity Providers.
Web Portal
Penad provides Internet access through a standard web browser, so plan sponsors, employers, and members can view and update critical pension data, including initiation of inter-fund transfers. Page layout and design is fully customizable to the branding of the plan sponsor.
Comprehensive Monthly Administration
- New member enrolment
- On-going data changes (beneficiary update, etc.)
- Updating of contributions
- Updating of salary changes/hours worked
- Responding to member inquiries
- What-if pension calculations
Member Level Transactions
- The calculation of benefits on termination, retirement, death, or marriage breakdown
- Issuance of member option forms
- Issuance of settlement instructions to trustee
- Annuity placements
Year End Reports and Member Statements
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