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I was recently speaking to a friend who just got a new teaching job and was offered a one-time choice between enrolling in a traditional defined benefit pension plan or receiving a match in a defined ...

Defined benefit plans are often referred to as pensions. For employees who meet certain criteria in the workplace, these accounts typically pay out predetermined benefits in retirement. Here's a look ...

Defined benefit plan participants will have greater flexibility in choosing how to receive their pension benefits under final regulations issued by the IRS in September. The regulations finalized ...

Lawrence Pines 25+ years of experience as an equity and foreign exchange options trader. He launched his own consulting firm in 2011. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. pixdeluxe / Getty Images A variable-benefit plan is a type of retirement plan in which the ...

IRS regulations limit the extent to which participants in retirement plans can benefit from those plans. These limitations reduce the amount of benefit that certain highly paid employees are able to ...

Defined benefit plans guarantee a set retirement payout, reducing investment risk for employees. These plans are rare in the private sector, with employers bearing the majority of funding and risk.