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401(k) Advisors is one of the few firms in the U.S. that focuses exclusively on providing independent consulting services to defined contribution plan sponsors. From plan design and communications to vendor fee benchmarkings to detailed investment monitoring and 404(c) consulting, we equip plan sponsors with the services needed to deliver a highly successful plan. Our primary value proposition is providing pinpoint laser focus on two main deliverables: (1) Maintaining compliance with the DOL, IRS, and other regulatory bodies; and (2) Improving investment opportunities and potential retirement outcomes for plan participants. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, 401(k) Advisors has been bringing value to several hundred plans since 2000.
Visit www.401kadvisors.com for more information.
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Ameriprise Financial is a leader in workplace financial education providing corporations and other institutions with a broad spectrum of employee financial education and financial planning programs to help improve benefits utilization and the financial lives of employees. The Ameriprise Financial Education and Planning Services unit serves over 1,600 companies and their more than 1.8 million employees across the United States. Ameriprise Financial is one of the nation’s leading financial planning, asset management and insurance companies. Through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., its affiliated broker dealer with a nationwide network of more than 10,000 financial advisors, Ameriprise Financial Services delivers financial solutions to clients through a personalized financial planning approach built on a long-term relationship with a knowledgeable advisor. The company specializes in meeting the retirement-related financial needs of the mass affluent.
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., member NASD, offers registered investments and financial planning services. ©2006 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. First use 6/06.
Contact:
Jim Buchholz
Vice President, FEPS Sales, Client Development and Field Implementation
5018 Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, MN 55474
P 612-671-3067
F 612-678-8789
E jim.buchholz@ampf.com
www.ameriprise.com
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Aon
Consulting,
the human
capital consulting arm
of Aon Corporation, is among the world's top global human
capital and management consulting firms. Aon's
human capital consultants and outsourcing specialists work
with organizations of all sizes to find, develop, motivate
and reward employees in ways that fit with broader financial
and business goals. We help our clients achieve better business
results through retaining top talent and improving performance.
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CAPTRUST Financial Advisors is an independent investment firm specializing in retirement plan advisory services. The foundation of our client relationships is objectivity and long before it became scrutinized, we were operating free of conflicts of interest. We have a long history of partnering with plan sponsors to achieve success and have developed a wealth of experience as the retirement plan marketplace has evolved. As a result, we are adept at leading you through the intricacies and nuances of retirement plans from beginning to end. We pride ourselves in offering our clients a disciplined and prudent investment consulting process, focusing on delivering quality service through a team approach. CAPTRUST is a specialist firm committed to forming a cofiduciary relationship with clients. Objective independent consulting to retirement plans is our primary business.
Contact:
CAPTRUST Financial Advisors
Bill Kline, Managing Director
8816 Six Forks Road, #301
Raleigh, NC 27615
P 800-216-0645
F 919-870-8891
E bill.kline@captrustadvisors.com
I www.captrustdirect.com and www.captrustadvisors.com
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Charles Schwab is one of the nation’s largest financial services firms, with over 7 million individual investor accounts and more than $1.2 trillion in client assets, including $158 billion in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Serving more than 1,000 plan sponsors and third party administrators, Schwab provides a broad range of services for investing through the workplace, including employee retirement and stock option plans, financial advice services and education for executives and employees, and support for benefit plan administrators. From small local firms to Fortune 500 companies, Schwab’s combined expertise in record keeping and related services, investment choice, participant education (including 401(k) advice) and high-end technology helps employers offer competitive benefits designed to attract, retain and motivate their valuable employees. With a long history of empowering individual investors, Schwab has the experience and a wide range of resources to help equip employees with knowledge, tools and access to the professional guidance they need to become more confident investors.
Contact:
Tom Geraghty
Field Vice President
225 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
P 617-443-8326
E thomas.geraghty@schwab.com
www.scrs.schwab.com
(c) 2005 Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Member SIPC (0005-6689)
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Diversified Investment Advisors is a national investment advisory firm focusing exclusively on retirement plans. The company's expertise covers the entire spectrum of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, including 401(k), 403(b), 457, executive deferred compensation, profit sharing, money purchase, cash balance, Taft-Hartley, rollover IRA and Roth IRA. Diversified's clients benefit from its core expertise in four key areas: investment management, plan design, plan administration and participant education and services. Diversified is distinguished in the marketplace by 1) its disciplined investment approach that gives plan sponsors the ability to combine retail mutual funds with sub-advised funds managed by premier institutional investment organizations; and 2) its award-winning education program that helps participants make sound investment decisions. Headquartered in Purchase, New York, Diversified services over $74 billion in retirement plan assets, helping more than 1,400,000 participants save and invest wisely for retirement.
Contact:
Mr. Kerry L. Cookson
Director
4 Manhattanville Road
Purchase, NY 10577
P 914-697-8101
F 914-697-3743
E cooksok@divinvest.com
www.divinvest.com
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Fidelity Investments® is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of more than $2.6 trillion, including managed assets of $1.3 trillion as of April 30, 2006. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to more than 22 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, one of the largest mutual fund supermarkets and a leading online brokerage firm. Fidelity Employer Services Company provides benefits and human resources administration, workforce effectiveness, payroll solutions and stock plan services to more than 18 million employees in the United States. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.fidelity.com
Contact:
Fidelity Investments®
Rich Linton
Senior Vice President
100 Magellan Way, KE1H
Covington, KY 41015
P 859-386-7638
E rich.linton@fmr.com
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JPMorgan Retirement Plan Services is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase that provides defined contribution expertise to some of the nation's largest retirement plans. This year we'll serve more than one million participants and three hundred defined contribution plans. Our distinguished services include top-tier investment management; independent investment advice; award-winning participant education; voice response, Internet, and participant services representatives; brokerage; and contract trustee services. We offer an innovative approach to serving our participants called Audience of One® to deliver individually relevant and targeted communications with each interaction—from printed materials, to the Internet, to our call center. We also provide highly personalized tools, such as our proprietary Retirement Dream Machine, that make it easy for participants to target their future retirement lifestyle in today's dollars. And our Total Retirement Solutions provides truly integrated administration for defined contribution, defined benefit, non-qualified deferred compensation, stock-based compensation, health and welfare, and financial advice benefit programs.
Visit us at www.plansponsorportal.com, or call 800-988-9084, ext. 44726.
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MassMutual Financial Group is the fleet name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) and its affiliates, with more than 13 million clients and over $395 billion in assets under management at year-end 20051.
Founded in 1851, MassMutual is a mutually owned financial protection, accumulation and income management company headquartered in Springfield, MA. MassMutual’s major affiliates include: OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Babson Capital Management LLC; Baring Asset Management Limited; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC; and MML Investors Services, Inc. MassMutual is on the internet at www.massmutual.com
MassMutual Retirement Services is a full-service provider of corporate, union, nonprofit and governmental defined benefit, defined contribution, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Services are also offered through retirement plan advisors and third-party administrators. With over 60 years of retirement services experience, MassMutual offers award-winning participant education tools, advanced education campaign management services, on-the-spot e4sm wireless enrollment technology, a
vast array of quality investments, compliance expertise, custom statements, and 24/7 access to account information for participants and sponsors. Our needs-based solutions help reduce the administrative burden for plan sponsors and help participants reach their retirement goals. www.massmutual.com/retire
©2006 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. All rights reserved. MassMutual Financial Group is a fleet name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) [of which Retirement Services is a division] and affiliates. 1Assets under management include assets and certain external investment funds managed by our subsidiaries.
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The Retirement Group at Merrill Lynch
The Retirement Group at Merrill Lynch is dedicated to partnering with corporations to help individuals achieve retirement success. Our services include defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans, non-qualified plans, equity award programs, traditional, rollover and Roth Individual Retirement Accounts, as well as Section 529 college savings plans.
We believe the best approach to company benefits is to manage all employee retirement programs in an integrated fashion. Doing so enables employers to present all of their benefit programs to employees as a package enabling them to more effectively manage their financial futures and increase the likelihood of achieving a successful retirement.
Merrill Lynch has been providing financial advice and investment solutions to individuals, businesses, governments and institutions for more than 115 years. Our advisory heritage, our investment expertise, and our local presence in communities across the country provide a strong foundation for all our retirement services. As a leader in the retirement business, we recognize the retirement issues individuals face and provide comprehensive solutions to meet those challenges.
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For more than 60 years, retirement has been the core business for the Principal Financial Group® (The Principal®). Through Principal Total Retirement Suitesm, The Principal offers comprehensive employer sponsored retirement solutions for virtually any arrangement, for employee groups from hire through retire, and for plan designs, including defined benefit, defined contribution (401a, 401k, and 403b), ESOP and non-qualified plans.
With a consolidated, seamless offering of products and services, The Principal provides expert consultation on plan design and investment selection, delivers award-winning service, and helps nearly 3 million retirement plan participants understand and value their company sponsored retirement benefits. The integration of multiple retirement plans with Principal also simplifies data management, administrative, recordkeeping, and compliance services.
The Principal serves more than 13 million customers worldwide. The Principal has helped individuals and growing businesses around the globe secure their financial futures with retirement plans, mutual funds, IRAs, and life and health insurance for 125 years.
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For more than 30 years, Russell Investment Group has been assisting many of the world’s largest pools of capital in structuring multiple-manager portfolios in efforts to deliver consistent performance, manage risk, and manage cost. Our investment process delivers Russell’s best ideas in a convenient solution that may complement your fiduciary oversight.
Clients trust Russell to guide the investment of $2.3 trillion1 globally, including management of $155 billion1 in assets invested in our multi-manager programs in both traditional and alternative investments. Our consulting heritage helps us leverage the knowledge and experience gained from working with some of the world’s most sophisticated investors.
Simple Retirement Options and Experienced Investment Management
Providing participants with an investment program to help them save for a comfortable retirement is a weighty responsibility. Russell’s lifestyle funds offer highly diversified portfolios among a variety of institutional quality, non-proprietary money managers. These funds can be conveniently offered to participants based on personal risk tolerances or date of retirement. These funds can form the foundation of a retirement program that seeks to manage risk and provide consistent returns for participants, helping them to achieve their retirement goals. Russell’s approach implements manager selection and diversification structures similar to those recommended to our consulting clients.
Fund objectives, risks, charges and expenses should be carefully considered before investing. A prospectus containing this and other important information can be obtained by calling (800) 787-7354 or visiting www.russell.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
For more information visit www.russell.com or contact:
Kristin Gibson
Director – National Accounts, Retirement Services
909 A Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
P 253-439-1722
E kgibson@russell.com
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Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm offering services to individuals and institutions around the world. Founded in 1937, T. Rowe Price manages over $293 billion in assets as of June 30, 2006, and offers a full array of proprietary and nonproprietary mutual funds appropriate for 401(k) plans, as well as a self-directed brokerage option. T. Rowe Price has been recognized as a 401(k) plan services pioneer and today is one of the leading 401(k) service providers. T. Rowe Price recordkeeps over 2,500 retirement plans with over 1.5 million participants. T. Rowe Price's comprehensive services include compliance, recordkeeping and investment management, as well as award-winning employee communications, and investor education.
Contact:
Mr. James J. Angelone
Vice President
T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.
4515 Painters Mill Road, Mail Code: 2211
Owings Mills, MD 21117
P 410-345-4512
F 410-685-2806
E jim_angelone@troweprice.com
www.troweprice.com
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Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies and a leading provider of employer-sponsored retirement plan services. Vanguard serves more than 22 million shareholder accounts and manages more than $980 billion in U.S. mutual fund assets, including more than $278 billion in employer-sponsored retirement plans (data as of August 31, 2006). Vanguard offers 138 mutual funds to U.S. investors and 40 additional funds in foreign markets.
Whatever the size of your defined contribution, non-qualified, or defined benefit retirement plan, Vanguard can offer the solutions you need at some of the lowest investment costs in the industry.
Investor focus: Vanguard is client-owned, so our interests are firmly aligned with those of our investors.
Exceptional investments: For institutional investors, Vanguard offers both indexed and actively managed mutual funds, commingled trusts, Vanguard ETFs™, stable value funds, and company stock funds, as well as access to the entire universe of non-Vanguard funds and brokerage services. The result: unparalleled open architecture in investments, true diversity of investment thought, and overall value.
Broad expertise in fiduciary issues: Our highly experienced plan consultants draw on a full range of programs to provide guidance in plan design, assist with document reviews and plan compliance issues, and formulate long-term plan participation analyses.
Award-winning education: Seasoned communication professionals develop a full spectrum of education and advice programs, ranging from do-it-yourself products to personalized advice delivered by licensed financial planners. Our goal is to provide participants with lifelong financial solutions in language they can understand and act on.
Ranked first in client satisfaction and quality: In the annual Boston Research Group survey, retirement plan clients ranked us first in overall satisfaction for the last six years. And in the annual Greenwich Associates survey, clients rated us number one in overall relationship quality for eight consecutive years.*
Add to all this our reputation for unmatchable value, investor advocacy, and plain talk, and you can understand why Vanguard may be just the right partner for your company's retirement plans.
* Boston Research Group 2005 Defined Contribution Plan Sponsor Study and Greenwich Associates 2004 401(k) Plans Large Market Study.
Visit www.vanguard.com or call 800-523-1036 to obtain fund prospectuses and Vanguard ETF product descriptions and prospectuses, which include investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other information; read and consider carefully before investing.
Vanguard ETF Shares can be bought and sold only through a broker (who will charge a commission) and cannot be redeemed with the issuing fund. The market price of Vanguard ETF Shares may be more or less than net asset value.
Vanguard ETFs and the ship logo are trademarks of The Vanguard Group, Inc. All other marks are the exclusive property of their respective owners.
© 2006 The Vanguard Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
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Wachovia Retirement Services offers a comprehensive array of retirement plan solutions that enable our client companies to attract and retain valuable employees. Our defined contribution, defined benefit and non-qualified retirement plans are designed with best-to-market features to exceed client expectations. We hold ourselves accountable for every aspect of our service, making our clients’ long-term success our top priority. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, WRS has over $98 billion in assets under administration, with nearly 5,700 plans and 2.1 million participants and pensioners as of June 30, 2006.
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Wells Fargo Institutional Trust Services
With more than 150 years of experience, Wells Fargo is an industry-leading money manager and leading provider of institutional trust services. As the only “AAA” rated bank in the nation, we have a strong history of financial strength, corporate governance and rigorous controls. Our commitment to the business begins with a commitment to our clients—we develop local client relationships and provide exceptional service. We offer a complete array of institutional trust services including retirement plan solutions, investment management services, trust and custody solutions, benefits consulting and health benefit services. Our award-winning employee communication and education programs result in higher levels of participation and satisfaction.
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