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Employer-Sponsored Retirement Products

Overview

As a church plan, Pension Fund is able to offer flexible and worry-free retirement options for employers and their employees. Our team of Area Directors will meet with you to discuss your needs and help you get started.

Individual Savings & Retirement Products

Overview

Whether you’re just starting out or closer to retirement, choose from a variety of products to help you reach your retirement and savings goals.

Program Applicants

Ministerial Relief & Assistance

Our relief programs meet the evolving needs of new, active, and retired clergy and their families to ensure all ministers and lay workers can enjoy a strong, smart, secure retirement.

Supporters & Donors

Make An Impact with a Donation

Your gifts and financial support helps ministry workers in need bridge the unexpected from now until retirement (and beyond).

Resources

Overview

Discover planning and educational tools & resources to help you navigate your financial wellness journey.

Your Money Line

Pension Fund has partnered with Pete the Planner® to provide members with access to financial guides who will help answer your tough financial questions & online tools such as calculators and eLearning courses.

Interest Rates on Specific Products to Increase on July 1

Dear Members,

We are excited to announce that the interest rates for our legacy products, the Tax-Deferred Retirement Account 403(b) (TDRA) and Benefit Accumulation Account (BAA) are increasing to 4.0% and 3.0%, respectively. The interest rates for our newer products, the Traditional and Roth IRAs and 457(b) remain at 3.5%. The new interest rates take effect on July 1, 2021. Base rates are determined and published each quarter. The rationale for the current increase in interest rates is based on our year-to-date market performance and funding levels.

The Pension Fund Board of Directors will consider Good Experience Credits (GEC) for these products at their meeting this November. In awarding a GEC, the board will review the Sept. 30 financial status of each product. If approved, this one-time additional interest credit would be reflected in member account balances by Dec. 31.

Each product has a different funding status based on several factors including investment returns, base rate of interest, and fund inflows/outflows. The legacy products have a high threshold for awarding a GEC based on the size of the assets under management and the historic funding status.

We are grateful to be serving you!

Blessings,

Rev. Dr. Todd A. Adams
President and CEO