Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
10-1-2009
Abstract
This chapter surveys the issues facing policymakers and workers’ organizations thinking about rebuilding a viable retirement security system in the United States, in the context of declining defined benefit coverage and persistent serious flaws in defined contribution plans. The chapter lays out principles for a universal system of supplemental retirement income coverage based on mandatory contribution levels, mandatory portability, limitations on early withdrawals, and annuitization. The structure outlined envisions continued participant and employer choice of both investment strategy and benefit design, with incentives built in for collective asset management.
Working Paper Number
WP2009-19
Copyright/Permission Statement
Opinions and conclusions are solely those of the author(s) and do not reflect views of the institutions supporting the research, with whom the authors are affiliated, or the Pension Research Council. Copyright 2009 © Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved.
Date Posted: 23 August 2019
Comments
The published version of this Working Paper may be found in the 2010 publication: Reorienting Retirement Risk Management.