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Positioning Pensions for the 21st Century

Michael Gordon, Olivia S. Mitchell and Marc Twinney, Editors
How can pensions be designed to withstand challenges of the next century? Experts examine hybrid and cash-balance plans, pension funding and insurance, and administrative costs and pension obligation bonds. Patterns in participant-directed investments are explored by income, age, and sex, along with their implications for retirement income adequacy.

1997 · University of Pennsylvania Press · ISBN 0-8122-3391-3

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Assessing the Challenges to the Pension System
[2.1MB PDF]
Olivia S. Mitchell, Michael S. Gordon, and Marc M. Twinney
Chapter 2: A Fresh Look at Defined Benefit Plans: An Employer Perspective [2.7MB PDF · login required]
Marc M. Twinney
Chapter 3: Cash Balance Pension Plans [1.7MB PDF · login required]
Anna M. Rappaport, Michael L. Young, Christopher A. Levell, and Brad A. Blalock
Chapter 4: Risk Aversion and Pension Investment Choices [2.4MB PDF · login required]
Vickie L. Bajtelsmit and Jack L. VanDerhei
Chapter 5: Investment of Assets in Self-Directed Retirement Plans [2.8MB PDF · login required]
Gordon P. Goodfellow and Sylvester J. Schieber
Chapter 6: Are Women Conservative Investors? Gender Differences in Participant-Directed Pension Investments [1.8MB PDF · login required]
Richard P. Hinz, David D. McCarthy, and John A. Turner
Chapter 7: Funding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans [3.9MB PDF · login required]
Mark J. Warshawsky
Chapter 8: Corporate Governance and Pension Plans [2.8MB PDF · login required]
Robert A. G. Monks
Chapter 9: Using Pension Funding Bonds in Defined Benefit Pension Portfolios [3.3MB PDF · login required]
Robert M. Lang
Chapter 10: Public Pension Plan Efficiency [2.2MB PDF · login required]
Ping-Lung Hsin and Olivia S. Mitchell
Chapter 11: Analytical Framework for Retirement Policy Decisions [3MB PDF · login required]
Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanushek
Chapter 12: Reforming Social Security? [2.5MB PDF · login required]
Edward M. Gramlich
Chapter 13: Individual Social Security Retirement Accounts [1.4MB PDF · login required]
John E. Porter
Index & Contributors [1.9MB PDF · login required]
Michael Gordon, Olivia S. Mitchell and Marc Twinney, Editors

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