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Pension Services

Custom Design & Administrative Pension Services
at Preferential Rates
through New AANS Partnership
with Premier Benefits Consulting Firm

AANS is introducing a new partnership with a leading benefits consulting firm to offer AANS members custom pension plan design and administrative services at preferential rates.

AANS members want to maximize tax-deductible contributions and retirement accumulations. Yet recent studies indicate that the vast majority of medical practitioners maintain plans with limited contributions for the physicians and relatively high costs for staff. In an effort to help members resolve this problem, AANS has established an exclusive arrangement with Chernoff Diamond & Co., a nationally recognized benefits consulting firm, to provide members with the plan designs and administrative services necessary to achieve their objectives in the most efficient way possible.

Managing a practice is a challenge. Managing your retirement plans should not be. That is why AANS searched to find the right firm-a professional organization with the capability to bring sophisticated, meaningful and user-friendly consulting and administrative services to members. With highly experienced professionals, state-of-the-art systems and dedicated service teams, Chernoff Diamond has been an industry leader for more than 25 years.

A clear example of Chernoff Diamond's leadership in its field is the creation of STRAT-SD®, an expanded and highly flexible retirement program designed to meet the retirement and tax-exempt accumulation objectives of successful medical practitioners. STRAT-SD combines increased tax-deductible contributions for physicians-as much as $200,000 per surgeon-with the administrative ease of STRATAS®, an efficient, fully-automated system for the implementation and administration of pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plans.

As a benefit of membership, you can now access comprehensive consulting and administrative services through Chernoff Diamond, including STRAT-SD, at preferential rates exclusively for AANS members:

• Custom Pension, Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plan Designs
• Increased Benefits and Administrative Ease
• AANS Dedicated Support Teams
• Reduced Fees

For more information about STRAT-SD and the full range of services available through the AANS partnership with Chernoff Diamond, visit www.chernoffdiamond.com/aans or call 516-683-6100 and ask for AANS Retirement Plan Services.