Some Retirement Provision Plans
Retirement Provision Plans, or Retirement Plans for short, are investment plans offered by employers to their employees to help and entice employees to make provision for their retirement. These plans are usually developed by insurance companies in close co-operation with government to provide low cost, tax deferred, investment opportunities to employees. Invariably these plans have some rigid rules to regulate the investment.
In February 2000 a study was published by Olivia S Mitchell and John Piggot of the Pension Research Council in Philadelphia. The title is: Developments in Retirement Provision. I quote from this report:
'Retirement systems should be conceived of as long-term financial contracts under which workers’ contributions today are exchanged for benefits paid to the elderly tomorrow. Such contracts are said to be well-managed if the transactions are handled in an affordable, reliable, and efficient manner. Yet all pension systems are forced to operate under a multitude of constraints including participants’ ability and willingness to save; the availability of assets with which to convert current saving into future retirement benefits; the limitations of imperfect capital markets; political influences imposed by stakeholders; country macroeconomic conditions; and as we are becoming increasingly aware, global business cycles. If pensions are to continue to meet the needs of an aging world, it is imperative to prepare for emerging challenges as these systems evolve through time.'
Retirement Plans are thus very well established and regulated
and one would expect that employees are well provided for by the time
they retire. However, reality is that in most cases the provision is
inadequate. One reason is that employees contribute the bare minimum to
these plans because retirement is not a priority, mainly in the early
years of employment.
Another reason is asset leakage. In the report mentioned above it is put as follows:
'As funds accumulate in these plans, there will be increasing pressure to permit participants to 'use' the assets for a variety of well-intentioned purposes. This is already evident in the US where participants can obtain their funds under conditions of hardship, which is defined to include needing a down payment on a home or sending a child to college.'
Below we discuss some Retirement Provision Plans:
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