RMD
Beneficiary Services
TIAA Charitable
Trust Services
Brokerage
100

When is the deadline a retired client has to take his initial RMD?

What is April 1 of the year following the calendar year he/she turns 70 1/2.

100

What is the IRS requirement when a beneficiary must claim benefit?

What is December 31st of the calendar year following the year of death.

100

What is the name of the TIAA Donor Advised fund and what does it do? 

What is TIAA Charitable.


It allows clients give to a charity of their choosing through an account which grows tax free. Most importantly it allows a client to gift appreciated securities and take the deduction in year one or spread it out. Also to minimize tax liability in a peak income year.

100

Who has a similar role to a CRC within the Trust Company?

What is a Trust Administrator.

100

This is the minimum dollar amount to open a managed brokerage account?

What is $50,000.

200

What type of contract cannot accept rollovers?

What is MDO.

200

When are accumulated RMD's paid out and satisfied?


When the benefit is accepted or claimed. It has to be paid by the end of the calendar year following DOD.




200

Who is our contact within TIAA Charitable for any questions?

Who is Elliott Otelsberg

200

What is the document that the portfolio manager in conjunction with the WMA and the client, that provides the roadmap for investment management?

What is an Investment Policy Statement.

200

For Portfolio Advisor, what is the limit that a client can transfer in kind current holdings that we will manage around or that we will hold as personalized positions?

What is the Risk Tolerance and preference questionnaire.

300

What is the email used when addressing questions to the 457B team?

What is "Executive Compensation Team"

300

How are TIAA Vintages in a 403B handled if they accept the plan as a beneficiary?

 

If the spouse or nonspouse settles as a beneficiary in the plan, the vintages are retained. Payout restrictions apply.

If the spouse takes ownership in an IRA, vintages are lost.

A non-spouse has to take ownership as an IRA.

300

What is the account minimums for TIAA Charitable?

$5000 for clients

$1000 for employees

300

Within IAS, who has primary responsibility for the relationship with the Trust Company?

Who is the WMA team.

 

Because the client can have life insurance, ATRA, brokerage accounts that PAM doesn't service or address.

300

What is the only monthly payment date option for recurring RMD payments?

What is the 28th.

400

Which of the following plans do not require an RMD at 70 1/2?

403B

457B

401A

After Tax Annuity

What is After Tax Annuity - by age 90

Intelligent Variable Annuity - by age 95 

Teacher Personal Annuity - by age 90


400

When do we need a notary on acceptance paperwork?

When the benefit is over $200k.

400

When is the deadline to make a contribution to your TIAA Charitable account?

What is by December 31st.

400

Beyond asset management, what is another service that the Trust Company provides?

What is Trustee Services.

What is Bill Pay.

What is Tax Return Services.


*you have to get preapproval for all of these services.

400

What is a strategy that IAS teams can employ to reduce taxes through Portfolio Advisor at the end of the year?

What is "Tax Loss Harvesting".


They will take gains throughout the year but they will not necessarily offset gains against losses. This has to be initiated through the advisory team through ISG. (Investment Strategy Group)

500

What is a type of qualified plan that allows 4 distribution elections options that once chosen cannot be changed?

What are 457B and 457F plans.

500

If a spouse settles as a beneficiary versus as an IRA owner, what are the 2 main considerations?


1. As a spouse beneficiary, the RMD will possibly be significantly higher, as much as 40%-50% since the RMD is based on the single life expectancy rather than the joint life. 

2. If they settle as a beneficiary, when they die, their beneficiaries have to settle as a second generation beneficiary and the payout is accelerated based on the decedent's age.

500

Why would a client choose TIAA Charitable?

What is:

Tax deductibility

Simplification of record keeping

tax deferred grow of their investments

Successor donor

flexibility in the timing of their gifting

flexibility to gift in the form of cash or securities

500

What is the minimum requirement to open an account with the Trust Company?

$1 Million dollars or $9,000 annually in fees.

*if its soley a fixed income portfolio its .50 basis points or $5000

500

For Portfolio Advisor, what is the limit that a client can transfer in kind current holdings that we will manage around or that we will hold as personalized positions?

What is 5% of the overall portfolio value.