Not exact matches
Companies with «
defined benefit plans» are obliged contractually to set aside earnings
in a special fund that will generate enough
interest, dividends or capital gains to be paid out to a growing number of retirees.
My sense is that it is still mainly
defined benefit pension
plans that are
interested in hedge funds and private equity, which are the focus of the Intel case.
Adjusted EBITDA is
defined as net income / (loss) from continuing operations before
interest expense, other expense / (income), net, provision for / (
benefit from) income taxes;
in addition to these adjustments, the Company excludes, when they occur, the impacts of depreciation and amortization (excluding integration and restructuring expenses)(including amortization of postretirement
benefit plans prior service credits), integration and restructuring expenses, merger costs, unrealized losses / (gains) on commodity hedges, impairment losses, losses / (gains) on the sale of a business, nonmonetary currency devaluation (e.g., remeasurement gains and losses), and equity award compensation expense (excluding integration and restructuring expenses).
But under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which sets minimum standards for
defined benefit and
defined contribution retirement
plans, and the IRS code, which oversees IRAs, a fiduciary advisor would be prohibited from earning commissions on investments for those accounts because that would not be considered to be acting
in the best
interest of the client.
The root of this difficulty is that both sides
in public - employee negotiations find it
in their
interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which,
in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year —
in favor of larger pension
benefits under a «
defined benefits»
plan.
A lump - sum direct rollover distribution whereby all accrued
benefits, plus
interest and investment earnings, are paid from the participant's account directly to an eligible retirement
plan as
defined in s. 402 (c)(8)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code, on behalf of the participant;
I believe this phenomenon will manifest itself with people becoming less enamored with self - determination (like with 401 (k)
plans) and more
interested in old - fashioned
defined benefit pension
plans, where someone else does the heavy lifting of investment for you.
-- Lower
interest rates lead to lower productivity — Lower
interest rates lead to more risk taking — The big white elephant, aka the pension industry and unfunded liabilities
in defined benefit retirement
plans.
This is especially common with lucrative
defined benefit plans and particularly emphasized by today's low
interest rates (low rates mean higher payouts that are often more than what you can otherwise transfer to your locked -
in RRSP).
With the decline of
defined benefit (DB) pension
plans, there has been some renewed
interest in providing other annuity income options to American workers, but demand for annuities has remained low
in the United States.
In addition, as fewer employees plan to rely on defined benefit (DB) plans for retirement income and fewer trust that Social Security will be there for them, the RCS found many employees are showing interest in guaranteed income product
In addition, as fewer employees
plan to rely on
defined benefit (DB)
plans for retirement income and fewer trust that Social Security will be there for them, the RCS found many employees are showing
interest in guaranteed income product
in guaranteed income products.
Plans determine what a participant's monthly
benefit payment would be if the participant's individual account balance
in the
defined contribution
plan were used to purchase an annuity at retirement, based on standard assumptions for
interest rates and the participant's life expectancy.
Cash Balance
Plan - A defined benefit plan that states a participant's benefit in terms of a hypothetical account balance based on a formula using pay credits and interest cred
Plan - A
defined benefit plan that states a participant's benefit in terms of a hypothetical account balance based on a formula using pay credits and interest cred
plan that states a participant's
benefit in terms of a hypothetical account balance based on a formula using pay credits and
interest credits.
Irda recently issued letters to all life insurance companies, seeking details on three types of traditional
plans: those where death
benefit is
defined as a return of premium (with or without
interest), products
in which the initial death
benefit is significantly high and reduces subsequently during the currency of the contract, and products
in which insurance cover is insufficient / insignificant
in relation to the premium, i.e. products mostly of the savings type.