NTSA 2022 Elite Advisor Award Nominations
08/24/2022
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Thank you for nominating a NTSA member financial advisor for the National Tax-Deferred Savings Association (NTSA) 2022 Elite Advisor Awards (EAA).

About the NTSA EAA Awards

These Awards are by Advisors, for Advisors. The Award’s focus is on the Financial Advisor's innovative, unique, profound and successful best practices for advocacy, leadership, practice management and legacy within the 403(b), 457(b) and ERISA non-profit retirement industry, directly impacting the ability for Americans to build a successful retirement, especially through employer-based retirement plans. The Award’s goal is to recognize the very ‘best of the best’ Financial Advisor members of NTSA who have done the most to help individual plan participants accumulate assets for a meaningful retirement, to advocate proactively for this industry and its beneficiaries, to lead in profound ways, to creatively operate an ever-improving practice, and to mentor responsibly for the future.

As an annual Financial Advisor member recognition program, the NTSA Elite Advisor Award has been established to honor Financial Advisors/Advisor(s) whose presence and innovative works have helped shape the best practices in serving clients in the 403(b), 457(b) and ERISA non-profit retirement industry, as well as to acknowledge their specific outstanding, unique accomplishments and/or contributions.

The NTSA Elite Advisor Awards proclaim to the retirement industry, to the federal, state and local legislatures, and to the public that NTSA and its Advisors are critical to this marketplace. Elite Advisors are educated, experienced, community-involved professionals. Such professionals are critical for the process of achieving individual retirement security for those Americans in the tax-exempt non-profit, public and private sectors. Together with NTSA, their Elite Advisors are committed to open access, professional advice, universal standard of care, collaboration and ethical behavior.

About your NTSA EAA Nomination Form

To nominate a NTSA member for the NTSA EAA, you must be an affiliate of the American Retirement Association (ARA), i.e., a member of ASEA, ASPPA, NAPA, NTSA, and/or PSCA.

Please submit this NTSA EAA Nomination Form electronically, understanding that by submission, you, as Nominator, affirm to the best of your knowledge that this individual is in good standing with their firm and the industry; and you understand that your information and your Story(ies) / anecdote(s) may be used in the public domain.

This NTSA EAA Nomination Form is due within one (1) week, but, no later than August 24, 2021. Complete Terms and Conditions for the NTSA 2022 EAA Awards are available online.

Eligible Nominees.

To be eligible to participate in the EAA Awards Nomination Process, objective, quantitative Advisor criteria must be met:   

  1. MEMBERSHIP: NTSA Individual, Associate or Affiliate Membership for three (3) years, including the Awards Year (for 2022 Awards, member as of 2020);
  2. GOOD STANDING: NTSA member in good standing and in full compliance with the ARA Code of Conduct and the NTSA CRES Code of Conduct;
  3. FINANCIAL ADVISOR: active as a financial advisor to 403(b), 457(b) and/or ERISA non-profit plans and their participants in any of the NTSA target markets;
  4. LENGTH OF SERVICE. Have acted for five (5) or more Awards Years as a Financial Advisor serving the 403(b), 457(b) and ERISA non-profit retirement plans and their participants, e.g., for the 2022 Awards Year, at least beginning in 2018;
  5. ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT and/or ADVISEMENT:
    1. assets in 403(b), 457(b) plans and ERISA non-profit, plus IRAs,
    2. as of the calendar year end immediately preceding the Nomination Period, e.g., December 31, 2020 preceding the 2021 Nomination Period for the 2022 Award,
    3. $25,000,000 or more in retirement plan assets under management and/or advisement, personally; this is not a team’s statistics, and,
    4. with automatic 3% escalation annually, beginning with the 2017 Nomination Period, e.g., $28,981,852. for 2022 Awards;
  6. FINANCIAL INDUSTRY LICENSING, OVERSIGHT & CONTINUING EDUCATION. Be licensed for Securities and Insurance; and
  7. FINANCIAL INDUSTRY OVERSIGHT & STANDING. Be in good standing with FINRA and SEC, as well as with state insurance regulators where the advisor is registered and doing business.