Description: This article discusses the risk-sharing arrangements provided by a number of different types of hybrid pensions, focusing on hybrid designs in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the New Brunswick (Canada) shared risk plan.

Description: Review of paper describing Collective Defined Contribution Plans. the elimination of traditional pensions by many companies have left employees without easy access to reliable retirement income Collective Defined Contribution plans which are used to a small extent in the US but more broadly used elsewhere offer an option for consideration.

Description: A review of the actuarial aspects of Cash Balance Retirement Plans and original actuarial research regarding the design and valuation of such plans.

Description: A Technical Analysis of Pension Equity Plans Course P–362U Study Note by Kyle N. Brown and Richard R. Joss from Pension Section News, August 1998, Issue No. 37.

Description: In this editorial the author discusses the rise in popularity of cash balance pension plans. She discusses their attributes and offers her opinion that the actuarial profession and the SOA have vital roles to play as these plans grow in usage and the business environment continues to evolve. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: This article discusses the results of a study sponsored by the Society of Actuaries which demonstrated the different accrual patterns between cash balance and traditional pension plans. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: This paper discusses the development of the Cash Balance Pension Plan concept.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that analyzes the effects on the funding and the contribution rate in hybrid pension schemes when the only source of unpredictable experience is through volatile rates of return.

Description: An interview with the director of research at International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Description: Information on Unusual Provisions in Cash Balance Plans Needed by William Torrie and Thomas P. Edwalds from Pension Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 39.