The American Bankers Association sent out a letter today to Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Bill Foster (D-Ill.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Andy Barr (R-Ky.) in assistance of legislation they presented previously this month to modify the Exchange Act to permit 403(b) retirement strategies—which are used by public schools, healthcare facilities and particular charities—to buy unregistered insurance coverage agreements and cumulative financial investment trusts that presently might be purchased by equivalent retirement strategies, such as 401(k) strategies.
H.R. 3063, the Retirement Fairness for Charities and Education Institutions Act of 2023, “would level the playing field,” ABA composed, including that provided CITs’ “significant benefits” for retirement investing, “we believe that CITs should be made available without restriction to 403(b) plans in the same manner as traditional pension and 401(k) plans.”
According to ABA, many CITs consist of everyday evaluations and trade processing and are used in a vast array of possession classes—consisting of domestic equity, worldwide equity, domestic set earnings, worldwide set earnings, stock/bond mix, time frame funds and short-term mutual fund. Retirement strategy sponsors and their recordkeepers significantly invest through these tailored financial investment alternatives since CITs are cost reliable and use more financial investment alternatives for 401(k) strategies, ABA composed.
Banks’ CITs are managed under federal and state banking laws and based on assessment and oversight by federal and state banking regulators and should adhere to federal tax laws that restrict the qualified financiers to U.S. tax-qualified retirement strategies and U.S. governmental retirement strategies.
