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SENTRY IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
 

QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS

 

Sentry can help you make your company’s retirement program understandable and affordable. For more than thirty years, we have successfully helped business owners design retirement savings plans. Sentry can:

  • Help you choose a plan that meets the retirement needs of you and your employees and their dependents
  • Conduct employee enrollment meetings
  • Provide ongoing plan administrative services
  • Provide ongoing employee retirement educational services


FLEXIBLE OPTIONS TO MEET FLEXIBLE NEEDS

Sentry‘s experienced administrative staff provides personalized, responsive one-stop service and assists you in meeting your day-to-day service and administrative needs. Sentry offers administrative services for:

  • 401(k) plans
  • 401(k) safe harbor plans
  • Profit-sharing plans
  • Money purchase plans
  • Investment-only plans


Your local Sentry representative will:

  • Assist in your plan design
  • Conduct employee education and enrollment
  • Provide service you need and deserve


Online Account Access

You and your employees need the flexibility to review your retirement records at your convenience. Sentry plan sponsors and participants can access our secured Web site or telephone response systems to:

  • Review account balances and check investment performance
  • Check contributions or change allocations
  • Transfer assets
  • Inquire about retirement plan loans

 

A WIDE RANGE OF INVESTMENT OPTIONS

Sentry’s full-service retirement plans help you and your employees get the most out of retirement savings with:


  • Investment options from respected companies
  • Fund manager selection and monitoring
  • Investment choices to meet a variety of investment needs, including:

    • Life-cycle accounts
    • Income, growth and income, and growth accounts
    • Index accounts
    • Actively managed accounts
    • Small, Mid- and Large-Cap Accounts
    • Balanced accounts
    • International and Global Growth Accounts
    • Guaranteed Fund Account

 

EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION SERVICES

By their nature, retirement plans can be complex. Good communication is essential in helping employees understand and manage retirement accounts. Sentry provides you and your employee participants with clear and concise communication resources and services, including:

  • On-site participant meetings
  • Retirement planning materials
  • Participant enrollment kits
  • Account performance fact sheets
  • Toll-free access to account performance information
  • Online account review and updating
  • Quarterly newsletter
  • Voice response system available 24 hours a day
  • Spanish language educational materials and voice response system
  • Quarterly participant statements
  • Summary plan descriptions
  • Summary annual reports
  • Optional direct mailing of participant statements


SPONSOR AND PARTICIPANT SUPPORT

Administering your employees' retirement savings and staying abreast of regulatory requirements is difficult, but necessary. That’s why Sentry offers value-added support services for plan sponsors and participants, including:


Record Keeping Services

  • Daily account valuations
  • Electronic data interface
  • Toll-free transfers and balance information available 24 hours a day
  • Online transfers and balance information available 24 hours a day
  • Prompt contribution allocation
  • Benefit checks and 1099R preparation and distribution


Distribution and Processing Services

  • Signature-ready government forms
  • Automatic notification of age 70 1/2 distributions
  • Prompt loan and hardship distribution processing
  • Local area network (LAN) and mainframe-based systems


Technical Support

  • ADP/ACP, top heavy, contribution and compensation testing
  • Optional benefits, rights and features testing
  • Other discrimination testing as required
  • In-house compliance consultants
  • In-house CPAs
  • IRS approved prototype documents
  • In-house programmers and systems support
  • Innovative administration software
  • Custom plan document support
  • Legislative and compliance monitoring
  • 404(c) compliance
  • Plan design guidance and determination letter application support



COMPETITIVE GROUP INSURANCE PLANS

Sentry is also the right choice for your employee benefits needs, including group life insurance, short- and long-term disability plans, dental insurance and business life insurance programs.


FOR MORE INFORMATION

Contact a Sentry representative to discuss these and other Sentry coverages and to tailor a program that is right for you.

 

Sentry’s property and casualty insurance coverages are underwritten by Sentry Insurance a Mutual Company, or its subsidiaries and affiliates Sentry Select Insurance Company, Middlesex Insurance Company, or Patriot General Insurance Company; Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and Sentry Lloyds of Texas, Round Rock, Texas. Companies not licensed in all states. Life insurance, pensions and group products are issued and administered by Sentry Life Insurance Company, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. In the State of New York, life insurance, pensions and group products are issued and administered by Sentry Life Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, New York. Policies, coverages, and discounts are not available in all states.

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