Is Your Defined-Benefit Pension Guaranteed?: Funding Rules, Insolvency Law and Pension Insurance

Authors

Ronald B. Davis, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow

Faculty Author Type

Emeritus Faculty [Ronald Davis]

Document Type

Research Paper

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Subjects

Pensions; Defined-benefit pensions; Pension policy

Abstract

Defined-benefit pension plans do not offer complete security; there are policy alternatives that would clarify this and are more likely to improve pension security than would the much-discussed options of reforming insolvency law or the constitutionally complex process of negotiating the introduction of a national pension benefit guarantee scheme.

Citation Details

Ronald B Davis, "Is Your Defined-Benefit Pension Guaranteed?: Funding Rules, Insolvency Law and Pension Insurance" (2011) IRPP Study.