Charles Chieppo, Governing Magazine

New Way To Tame Pension Beast

Adjustable pension plans (APPs) guarantee lifetime payments to employees. But unlike traditional defined-benefit systems, the size of the benefit would be adjusted based on the pension fund's investment performance during the previous year. For employees, it means that while payments would often be less than under traditional defined-benefit plans, they would be secure.

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