What will happen in Greece when pension benefits are slashed, as will be the number and salaries of government workers?
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What is the effect upon participants in a pension plan when the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation takes over the plan and replaces company pensions with PBGC pensions?
One city, Central Falls, filed for bankruptcy in August when its pension fund ran out of money.
And if you're elderly, how do you get in to get your pension when there's hardly any public transport?
The previous Liberal government tried to limit pension investment in income trusts in 2004 but backed off when the pension industry objected.
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Scott Quenneville, a 41-year-old Hostess bread driver in Detroit, said he saw his pension eligibility age rise to 65 from 57 when Hostess stopped contributing to the pension in August.
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Workers in Argentina incurred big pension losses when the government defaulted on its debts.
We're going to finally close the loophole when I'm president in our pension laws that allows companies to cut their employees' pensions when they sell off subsidiaries.
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But this gamble can backfire, as it did for New Jersey, which issued pension bonds in 1997 and suffered when the technology bubble burst.
Eligible older people are entitled to free off-peak travel on local buses anywhere in England when they reach the state pension age.
Although it costs a little bit up front each month, the couple elects to have a full survivor benefit in place when it comes to the pension payments so that Dr. Ogilvie could still collect payments should he outlive his wife.
It wants to make sure that DC schemes give their members value for money, keep them up to date with developments, and give them a proper choice when turning their pension pots in annual pensions, known as annuities.
Pensions Minister Malcolm Wicks has told BBC Wales he did not not want to raise expectations of compensation for the 800 former Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) workers who lost their jobs and pension entitlements when the company collapsed in July 2002.
And we have seen bold moves to combine nine pensions tax regimes into one, meaning that for the vast majority of people, tax will not be a factor when it comes to saving in a pension.
Employees at Augsburg Fortress, a publisher in Minneapolis that sells books published for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, lost 30% to 60% of their pensions when the publisher, which claimed the pension was a church plan, terminated it in 2010.
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Pension finances may look even worse in six months, when Britain's actuaries produce a study on longevity.
It also lets the government put off its slowdown in pension increases, originally due to start in 2002, when a general election is due.
The IFS found that pensions achieved lower returns, partly as a result of lower share values as a result of the tax and partly as a result of paying the tax itself when changing which shares were owned in the pension fund.
The pension-reform decree may also be overturned in Congress, when it reconvenes early in March.
Both candidates recognise there is no easy solution to problems that began when the council in 1996 and 2002 voted to increase pension benefits but not pension contributions.
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This was proposed by the Conservatives as part of a scheme to fund the basic pension, but rejected by the Labour Party when it was in opposition.
That's especially true for people entering the work force in an era when employers are canceling the traditional "defined benefit" pension programs that older workers have come to count on.
Many schemes assume, on the basis of past performance, a return of 7.5-8%, a figure that is highly implausible given the current low yields. (By contrast, in 1981, when Treasury bonds were yielding 13.5%, pension funds assumed a future annual return of just 6%.) Such rosy assumptions allow schemes to stint on their contributions, building up huge future risks.
Employers have been the cornerstone of pension provision for millions of workers in the last few decades, and just when saving levels need to increase they are reducing.
When individuals take on large corporations involved in providing services to the pension community, where important public policy issues are involved, the pension community should rally behind their cause.
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When Bismarck introduced the world's first state pension system in 1889, he set the retirement age at 70, some 25 years beyond the average Prussian's life expectancy, so it did not cost much to run.
When they filed for bankruptcy, the pension companies went after them in court.
In addition to this, the days when an employee could count on the company pension and Social Security benefit to provide a decent retirement income have faded.
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When the technology bubble burst, pension funds were left with worthless stakes in private-equity deals that had gone sour, on top of the damage done by tumbling stockmarkets.
As Blairite ministers acknowledge, raising the state-pension age had been taboo even though it was originally set at 65 in 1925, when pensioner life expectancy was much lower.
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