Featured Jobs
The Ryding Company
|
Defined Contribution Consultant AimPoint Group
|
Nicholas Pension Consultants
|
Senior Defined Benefits Consultant Loren D. Stark Company
|
PPG Retirement Plan Services, Ltd. |
AimPoint Group
|
Cetera Retirement Plan Specialists
|
Pentegra
|
Central Pension Fund of the IUOE |
EPIC Retirement Plan Services
|
Blue Ridge ESOP Associates
|
Experienced Retirement Plan Administrator Karel-Gordon & Associates
|
EPIC Retirement Plan Services
|
Free Newsletters
“BenefitsLink continues to be the most valuable resource we have at the firm.”
-- An attorney subscriber
 |    |
<< Previous news item | Next news item >>
| RRC Conference Paper: Political Risk versus Market Risk in Social Security (PDF) Center for Retirement Research at Boston College  Aug. 23, 2005 21 pages. Excerpt: [The authors] argue that the characterization of traditional Social Security as a defined benefit retirement program is inappropriate. An essential element of defined benefit pension programs is that the participants do not bear the funding risk. That is, if the fund becomes underfunded ..., the funding inadequacy is not borne by the participants, but by the employer or an insurance entity. The risks are transferred from the participants to others,[.] |
| Please click here to report this link if it is broken (for example, if you see a "404 File Not Found" error message after you click on the link above). |
| An important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® is providing a hypertext link to the item shown above, but is not the author of the item (unless otherwise specified). |
