Search Details

Word: pensions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...always had more interesting - and controversial - things to say than your average retirement-policy wonk. An economist who moved this year from the University of Notre Dame to the New School for Social Research in New York City, she has railed for years against the decline of the traditional pension. She recently wrote a book subtitled The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them; the less contentious main title is When I'm Sixty-Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the 401k Be Killed? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...other defined-contribution retirement plans - they have high fees, for one - Ghilarducci didn't think she was courting controversy. "I was saying things that seemed completely milquetoast," she recalls. Ghilarducci did bring up a bold proposal to replace the 401(k) with a mandatory, government-run pension plan and suggested that Congress immediately allow retirees to swap 401(k)s battered by the stock market's collapse for monthly payouts from the government. But she had floated both ideas before, to little effect. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the 401k Be Killed? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Therein lies the problem, or problems. Unlike pensions, 401(k)s are voluntary, and many workers either don't participate or don't set aside enough money to give them a shot at a comfortable retirement. Those who do save enough often bungle their investment choices. Those who choose well pay higher investment fees generally than pension funds do. Even participants in the best-run, lowest-cost retirement funds face the risk that the market will tank - as it has done this year - when they're close to retirement. At retirement comes another issue: pensions insure against the risk that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the 401k Be Killed? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...death throes of the Benevolent Manufacturing State, however, have been costly. GM alone has paid out $103 billion in pension and retiree-health-care costs over the past 15 years. "The legacy costs were designed in an era when people retired at 65 and died at 66. We weren't wrong to give it to them 30 years ago. Now they retire early and live longer," says Conway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Ford's and Chrysler's current employees will no longer be eligible for postretirement health benefits. For the automakers, the costly transition is worth it, because it eliminates one of the major uncertainties they have faced over the years - the soaring cost of health care. GM's combined pension and retiree-health-care costs run $7 billion annually and have cost GM more than $103 billion over the past 15 years, according to GM chairman and CEO Richard Wagoner. Ford's health-care expenses for both active and retired employees now run $2.2 billion, a figure that will drop significantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Taxpayers Bail Out GM's Retirees? | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | Next