“Pioneer requires a Medallion Signature Guarantee on certain transaction requests for your protection. While requirements vary widely from company to company, we’ll use Pioneer Mutual Funds as a proxy. Let’s review a typical set of transactional requirements for a mutual fund company as an example. Obtaining a medallion guarantee is becoming increasingly difficult and is often a nearly impossible quest for many legitimate holders of securities. For providing this essential service to safeguard the efficient transfer of securities, the medallion guarantor receives basically nothing. If this proves to not be the case, the medallion guarantor is obligated to immediately make up any loss and pursue any ultimate (to say nothing of expensive and perhaps fruitless) remedy on its own. The medallion stamp program was put into place to provide transfer agents (and others, such as mutual fund companies) with assurance that the transaction request is coming from someone who has the authority and capacity to make the request. LISI Commentator Michel Nelson, JD, is Senior Vice President and heads trust services and investment management for Iowa Savings Bank, and is a frequent lecturer for charitable groups, bar association seminars, and estate planning councils.Īs securities transactions increasingly involve principals who have no employee agents on the ground who know the securities holder, how do you avoid fraudulent requests for the sale of securities? How can you assure that the request to sell is coming from the owner and not his black sheep nephew or an identity thief? We close the week with Michel Nelson’s commentary on medallion signature guarantees. I strongly suspect that transfer agents for publicly held companies, mutual funds, insurance companies, and others who routinely demand medallion signatures have no clue how difficult it has become for many to obtain a medallion guarantee.” Many banks have concluded it is safer to say no than to incur the inevitable angry response to a quoted fee that is commensurate with the costs and risks involved.
This may be great for transfer agents, issuing companies, and mutual funds, but an increasing number of banks have reached the conclusion that it is no longer feasible to provide a service that generates no revenue, is costly to properly run, and exposes the bank to large financial risk. If this proves to not be the case, the medallion guarantor is obligated to immediately make up any loss and pursue any ultimate remedy on its own. The medallion stamp program was put into place to provide transfer agents and others with assurance that the transaction request is coming from someone who has the authority and capacity to make the request. “As securities transactions increasingly involve principals who have no employee agents on the ground who know the securities holder, how do you avoid fraudulent requests for the sale of securities? How can you assure that the request to sell is coming from the owner and not his black sheep nephew or an identity thief? Subject: Michel Nelson & Medallion Signature Guarantees
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Steve Leimberg’s Estate Planning Email Newsletter – Archive Message #2018įrom: Steve Leimberg’s Estate Planning Newsletter The article does a good job of explaining the mind set of large institutions that make unreasonable demands of their customers. Below is a Leimberg Estate Planning Newsletter that sheds light on why it can be so difficult to get Medallion Signature Guarantees, which are often required when a person wants to move large sums of money, such as sale of securities.
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