Description: This paper examines the Retirement Shares Plan which allows participants to allocate their benefits to the classes of shares available. Thus risk-averse retirees can be assured of relatively stable benefits, while the less risk-averse can have their benefits backed by a diversified of equity portfolio.

Description: This paper describes the features of the Retirement Shares Plan RSP, a new concept in pension benefit design, as an alternative to traditional defined benefit or defined contribution retirement plans. An RSP transfers the invesmtent risk to plan pariticpants while retaining and pooling the longevity risk. From 2006 Re-Envisioning Retirement in the 21st Century Symposium, M-AS06-2.