Fiduciary Tools

Nationwide^® provides you the tools that can help you meet your fiduciary responsibilities.

Our Nationwide Financial Fiduciary Series^SM helps you select and monitor plan investments and meet your fiduciary responsibilities. This series features an easy-to-follow handbook with a CD-ROM, an interactive web site and online customizable tools. Some of these tools include:

• Model Investment Policy Statement (IPS) Template − The IPS allows you to document the process you follow when selecting and monitoring the investment options in your plan
• ERISA 404(c) Checklist − This checklist provides the requirements plan fiduciaries must meet to achieve protection under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) Section 404(c)
• Fiduciary Responsibility Success Quiz − This quiz helps you understand your fiduciary obligations
• Q&A Brochure − This brochure assists in communicating the required Section 404(c) information to your participants
• Due Diligence File Checklist − This tool helps make sure you’re properly investigating and documenting all plan-related decisions
• Plan Fiduciary Meeting Checklist − Plan fiduciaries should meet at least once a year to review plan documents as well as the plan’s operation, administration and investments; this checklist helps make sure you cover the appropriate topics in each meeting and properly document them in meeting minutes
• Your Quarterly Plan Checkup − A report that provides an overall look at the activity and status of your plan

By using these tools and working with your investment professional, you’ll take a large step toward meeting your fiduciary responsibilities.

Don't have an investment professional? Read about how working with an investment professional can help. Then learn how to choose an investment professional.

The Nationwide Financial Fiduciary Series is general in nature and isn’t intended to constitute legal or investment advice on any particular matter. Neither Nationwide nor any of its representatives provide tax, financial or legal advice. The Nationwide Financial Fiduciary Series is not for participant use.

• Not a deposit • Not FDIC or NCUSIF insured • Not guaranteed by the institution • Not insured by any federal government agency • May lose value

Trust programs and trust services are offered by Nationwide Trust Company, FSB a division of Nationwide Bank.

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