What Are Defined Benefits Contribution Pension Plans?

What are defined benefits contribution pension plans? Putting money into an account over time for retirement is known as a defined contribution plan. We touched on that with the 401K plan, which is a type...

We touched on that with the 401K plan, which is a type of defined contribution plan, where we refer to either a profit sharing plan as opposed to defined benefit plan. We have these at Merrill Lynch as well, often times corporation set those up. At some point we are going to retire, some number of years down the road, and we know what we want our retirement benefit, our dollars that we want to take in retirement to be, and so we need to save right along the way to get that X and that's defining the benefit. Whereas the define contribution plan is just what it says. We are going to contribute so much to a plan as we go and whatever that ends up been at the end of time is our benefit and the retirement will be extracted from there.

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