Examples of Notional Earnings in a sentence
In making any election described in Section 3.3(a) above, the Participant shall specify on the Election Form, in increments of whole percentage points (1%), the percentage of his or her Notional Earnings Account and any earnings thereon to be allocated to a Measurement Fund (as if the Participant was making an investment in that Measurement Fund with that portion of his or her Notional Earnings Account).
A Participant’s Notional Earnings Account shall be credited or debited as frequently as is administratively feasible, but no less often than quarterly, based on the performance of each Measurement Fund selected by the Participant, as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion.
The balance of a Participant’s Notional Earnings Account at any time may be smaller or larger than the balance of the Notional Earnings Account of any other Participant.
Notional Earnings RuleIf people ask to be paid a lower amount or turn down an offer of payment to be involved on a voluntary basis the ‘notional earnings’ rule may be applied.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Participant’s Notional Earnings Account shall at all times be a bookkeeping entry only and shall not represent any investment made on his or her behalf by the Employer or the Trust; the Participant shall at all times remain an unsecured creditor of the Employers.
The Participant may (but is not required to) elect, by submitting an Election Form to the Administrator that is accepted by the Administrator, to add or delete one or more Measurement Fund(s) to be used to determine the additional amounts to be credited to his or her Notional Earnings Account, or to change the portion of his or her Notional Earnings Account allocated to each previously or newly elected Measurement Fund.
The Administrator shall from time to time select types of Measurement Funds and specific Measurement Funds for deemed investment designation by Participants for the purpose of crediting additional amounts to his or her Notional Earnings Account.
A Participant’s Notional Earnings Account shall be credited with the Participant’s Initial Account Credit, and subsequently credited (or charged, as the case may be) with the hypothetical or deemed investment earnings and losses determined pursuant to Section 3.3, and charged with distributions made to or with respect to him or her.
Solely for record keeping purposes, the Administrator shall establish a an Notional Earnings Account for each Participant.
Any distribution with respect to a Participant’s Account Balance shall be charged to the Participant’s Notional Earnings Account as of the date such payment is made by the Employer or the trustee of the Trust which may be established for the Plan.