Teach and Retire Wealthy 403(b)’s: Building for Retirement! Things you should know!

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NYSUT 403b History Summary New York State United Teachers or NYSUT has 500,000 members 620 School Districts 1989 NYSUT endorsed two arrangements ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company — the Opportunity Plus variable annuity Opportunity Independence 403(b)(7) custodial account. http://www.m.403bwise.com/features/nysut_jlf.html

403(b)’s: Somethings you need to know to make them work for you! When should you start investing? How do fees affect your returns? How to you find hidden fees? What you can do to get better investment options? How can you better educate yourself about 403(b)s?

Benefit of Saving Early The chart below from JP Morgan shows how one saver (Susan) who invests for only 10 years early in her career, ends up with more wealth than another saver (Bill), who saves for 30 years later in life. By starting early, Susan was able to better take advantage of compound interest. Chris, the third saver profiled, is the ideal: He contributed steadily for his entire career. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-power-of-compound-interest-2014-7

Benefit of Saving Early This chart by Business Insider's Andy Kiersz also emphasizes the impact of compound interest, and the importance of starting early. Saver Emily, represented by the blue line, starts saving the exact same amount as Dave (the red line), but begins 10 years earlier. Ultimately, she contributes around 33% more than Dave over the course of her career, but ends up with almost twice as much wealth as he does. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-power-of-compound-interest-2014-7

Benefit of Saving Early Compound interest can get you pretty far. In fact, Business Insider calculated — based on your current age and a 6% return rate — how much you need to be saving per month in order to reach $1 million by age 65. You can also see the calculations based on different rates of return. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-power-of-compound-interest-2014-7

Fees and How They Affect Your 403(b) Expenses have a direct and dramatic impact on your earnings. You can't control the market but you can control how much you pay for your investments. The difference of just a few extra percentage points in fees may seem minimal, but over time this seemingly minimal difference can steadily eat into your overall earnings, costing you thousands of dollars.

Fees That Can Affect Your 403(b) Returns 12b-1 Fee This charge generally allows distributors to compensate broker/dealers for selling their funds, with a payment to the representative who sold the fund. It also can be a charge to cover marketing and distribution costs of the investment. Custodial Fee The charge for safekeeping or physically holding the securities in the fund. Expense Deductions Charges for investment management, administration and distribution services. Management Fee Also called the investment advisory fee, this represents the company's cost for managing the money in the fund.

Fees That Can Affect Your 403(b) Returns (con’t) Mortality and Expense Fee (M&E) This applies to some types of annuities and covers insurance related costs. Transfer Fee This is an amount charged by a fund to transfer either within the fund family or to another company. Wrap Account Fee Charged by some types of funds for fund management, this is an annual percentage of the investor's assets in the account. Withdrawal Charge (a.k.a. Surrender Charge) A fee charged by some annuities and funds when an investor takes money out of his or her account.

How Fees Steadily Eat Away at Your 403(b) Value after 35 years, assuming $250 contributed monthly with an 8% average annual return (source: Meridian Wealth Management)

Finding Hidden Fees By using this carefully written email, your provider can’t evade or avoid the truth.  Cut, paste and modify the text below and email it to your current plan provider. You can likely find your provider’s email on your quarterly statement. Subject: Inquiry about the fees deducted from my retirement accounts  Dear (provider name):  I’ve recently learned that the fees taken out of my Teacher retirement plan (403B) and other retirement accounts can have a big impact on the amount that I will have to fund my retirement. Maybe I missed something in all of the paperwork, but as your client would you please provide a detailed description of any fees that are paid from my accounts? This might include fees paid for fund management, trading commissions, custodial or investment advisory services. Please show me any compensation that you or your firm receives from 12b-1 fees, loads or any other fees from funds, which are in any of my accounts. I understand that some fees are hard to see, for example the fees for funds inside of target date funds and other funds that include other funds. I wish to know any and all fees whether I’ve listed them here or not.  Thanks so much,  Your Name https://warwickfa.com/teachers-403b/

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