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GATT Rate Closes at 4.29% Today

Just past the halfway point, the unofficial monthly average currently stands at 4.35%.

This is good news for many of our Verizon friends in West Virginia and North Carolina, as well as anyone else who may be contemplating retiring in the 1st Quarter of 2010.

Please contact Harris Financial Group at (800) 281-3980 if you have questions about how the GATT Rate affects your retirement.

GATT Heads Lower

The GATT Rate has steadily dropped over the past few days, registering closing yields of 4.39, 4.36 and 4.26%. Although this is a welcome change, remember that what we're waiting for is the monthly average. We'll continue to keep you updated. In the meantime, please call Harris Financial Group at (800) 281-3980 for help with anything else related to your retirement.

Attention VZ Managers!

Please contact Harris Financial at (800) 281-3980 for an important update on the 10-year treasury rate and how it may affect your lump sum if you have recently received a RIF.

GATT at 4.41% Again Today

It's starting to look like the GATT Rate for this month will be pretty close to the previous quarter's rate. It's still too soon to say for sure, so please stay tuned as we continue to update throughout the month.

GATT Still Hovering Around 4.4%

The GATT Rate has been fluctuating between 4.39 and 4.41 over the past few trading days. For those of you monitoring the change in the quarterly GATT, this is still not a big move from the past quarter, which is good news.

Attention Financial Advisors

Please don't call us impersonating hard-working, good people from companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Boeing.

Folks, if your financial advisor needs to call us and ask us questions in order to properly help you plan your retirement, then perhaps we ought to be the team advising you. Just food for thought.

GATT Rate Hovering Around 4.41% Today

After closing at 4.43% yesterday.

November GATT Update

This isn't the start to November that many of you had hoped for. The GATT Rate has been significantly higher to start the month, closing at 4.27 and 4.34 for the first two trading days. It's still very early in the month though, so it's still too early to tell what the average for the entire month will be.

If you work for AT&T or Verizon and have questions about the GATT Rate, please call us at (800) 281-3980.

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We are financial advisors whose goal is to help people gather as much information as possible in order to make an informed retirement decision. As a professional courtesy, we ask that other financial advisors do not call us for information related to the GATT Rate, or any company's pension plan.

New Verizon EISP Offer

We have heard of multiple people in the mid-Atlantic region who have received solicitations for a Verizon EISP offer with a last day of employment of December 19th. We're not sure which job titles this affects, but if you have any questions about the offer, please call Harris Financial Group at (800) 281-3980.