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Helpful Resources for 529 Plans

SavingforCollege.com

Savingforcollege.com has been helping families save for college since 1999. They are an unbiased, independent resource for parents and financial professionals, providing information and tools to understand the benefits of 529 college savings plans and how they can prepare to meet the challenge of increasing college costs.

College Board

This national association has been working together for more than 100 years to deliver opportunity to students and their parents. It also provides information on over 6,000 colleges and universities.

College Savings Plans Network (CSPN)

This web site provides detailed information about 529 college savings plans and allows you to compare plans from around the country.

Federal Student Aid

This website provides information on the federal financial aid process, including eligibility requirements and eligible schools, and features the Free Application For Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA application must be completed in order for a college student to qualify for federal and state student grants, work-study, and loans.

IMPORTANT RISK DISCLOSURES

Equity Securities: The market price of equity securities may be adversely affected by financial market, industry, or issuer-specific events. Focus on a particular style or on small or medium-sized companies may enhance that risk.

Foreign & Emerging Markets: Investing in foreign securities, especially in emerging markets, subjects the portfolio to additional risks such as increased volatility, currency fluctuations, less liquidity, and political, regulatory, economic, and market risk.

Credit & Interest: Debt instruments are subject to various risks, including credit and interest rate risk. The issuer of a debt security may fail to make interest and/or principal payments. Values of debt instruments may rise or fall in response to changes in interest rates, and this risk may be enhanced with longer-term maturities.

Income: Income received from the portfolio may vary widely over the short- and long-term and/or be less than anticipated if the proceeds from maturing securities in the portfolio are reinvested in lower-yielding securities.

Market Volatility: The value of the securities in the portfolio may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and/or general economic conditions. Local, regional, or global events such as war or military conflict, terrorism, pandemic, or recession could impact the portfolio, including hampering the ability of the portfolio's manager(s) to invest its assets as intended.

NOTICE: CollegeAccess 529 Plan accounts are not insured by any state, and neither the principal deposited nor any investment return is guaranteed by any state. Furthermore, the accounts are not insured, nor the principal or any investment return guaranteed, by the federal government or any federal agency.

Before investing, an individual should consider whether their state of residency — or their intended designated beneficiary's state of residency — offers any benefit, such as state tax deduction, financial aid, scholarship funds, and protection from creditors or any other benefits that are only available for investments in that state's 529 savings program.

An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the CollegeAccess 529 Plan before investing. This and other important information is in the Plan Disclosure Statement (SD Investors Version ), which should be read carefully before investing, and which is available on this website.

The Program Manager and Underwriter for the CollegeAccess 529 Plan is VP Distributors LLC, One Financial Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103,
1-800-243-4361. The Plan is issued by the South Dakota Higher Education Savings Trust. Certain of the investment management firms that manage underlying mutual Funds in the Program, including Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. (VIA), are affiliated with the Program Manager, VP Distributors, LLC.  Virtus Fund Advisers, LLC is an affiliate of VIA and the Program Manager.

Withdrawals from a 529 Plan for qualified expenses are free from federal income tax. Qualified expenses include tuition and fees, room and board, books and other supplies.

State taxes may apply for residents of states other than South Dakota. Speak to your tax or financial advisor.

Non-qualified withdrawals are subject to federal income tax and a 10% penalty tax on earnings, with some exceptions, and may also be subject to state tax.

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