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NationsBank's innovative pension plan in question.

Business Insurance, October, 1998 by Geisel, Jerry

JERRY GEISEL CHARLOTTE, N.C. - New legal questions are dogging NationsBank Corp.'s innovative participant-directed cash balance pension plan. Employee benefit and legal experts are questioning how the company's new approach fits with certain Internal Revenue Service rules governing the transfer of funds between defined contribution and defined benefit plans.

Charlotte, N.C.-based NationsBank, which now operates under the name Bank of America following its merger with BankAmerica Corp., has refused to discuss the plan (BI, Oct. 5). 'Legal issues have to be addressed in such arrangements,' said Fred Rumack, director of taxes and legal services at Buck Consultants Inc. in New York. The NationsBank plan allows employees to direct the investment of...

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