Chapter 29 provides knowledge of pension plan management. This chapter presents the following content: Pension plan terminology, defined benefit versus defined contribution plans, pension fund investment tactics, retiree health benefits.
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Pension Plan Management
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Pension plan terminology
Defined benefit versus defined contribution plans
Pension fund investment tactics
Retiree health benefits
Trang 4performance of their own fund. 401(k) is the most common type.
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Trang 5 Profit sharing plan: Employer payments vary with the firm’s profits. (Defined
assets
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Trang 6 Vesting: Gives the employee the right
to receive pension benefits at retirement even if he/she leaves the company
Trang 7 Overfunded: The reverse of
underfunded
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Trang 8 Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA): The federal law governing the administration and structure of
corporate pension plans
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Trang 9Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
(PBGC):
A government agency created by ERISA to ensure that employees of firms which go bankrupt before their defined benefit plans are fully funded will
receive some minimum level of benefits.
However, for high income employees (i.e., airline pilots), PBGC pension payments are often less
than those promised by the company.
Trang 10Pension Funds and Financial Reporting
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), together with the SEC,
establishes rules for reporting pension information
Pension costs are huge, and
assumptions have major effect on
reported profits
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Trang 13 Employee will live another 15 years, to age
80, and will draw a pension of $20,000 per year.
The plan’s actuarial rate of return is 10%.
Trang 14Additional Real World
Complexities.
Don’t know how long the employee will work for the firm (the 40 years).
Don’t know what the annual pension payment will be (the $20,000).
Trang 15Risks Borne by Plan Sponsor and Plan Beneficiaries
Defined benefit plan: Most risk falls on the company, because it guarantees to pay a specific retirement benefit
regardless of the firm’s profitability or
the return on the plan’s assets
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Trang 16 Defined contribution plan: Places more risk on employees, because benefits
Trang 17 Cash balance: “Middle of the road” in terms of risk for both employer and
employee. Employer’s payment
obligations are fixed and known, while employees are guaranteed a specified return
Trang 18Pension Plans and Employee Training Costs?
Defined benefit plans encourage
employees to stay with a single
company, hence they reduce training costs
Vesting and portability facilitate job
shifts, hence increase training costs.
Trang 19Pension Plans and Union
Conflicts at Financially Distressed Firms
Benefits paid under defined benefit
plans are usually tied to the number of years worked and the final (or last few) year’s salary. Therefore, unions are
more likely to work with a firm to ensure its survival under a defined benefit plan
Trang 20Rising Costs of Retiree Health Benefits
than pension costs