Retirement Plans or Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

Retirement Plans: 401(k)s, IRAs and Other Deferred Compensation Approaches

Author: Allen

Retirement Plans (formerly titled Pension Planning through the ninth edition) is a classic, the book relied upon by generations of faculty and thousands of professionals throughout the world. It reliably provides the reader with the features, costs, investment opportunities, and regulatory issues governing all the various types of retirement and other deferred compensation plans. The 10th edition keeps the book once again at the forefront of the discipline, with extensive coverage of the new Pension Protection Act, defined contribution plans, ethical plan administration, and much more.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Environmental Influences on Private Pension Plans

1.
The Dynamic Ongoing Evolution of Private Retirement Plans

2.
Strategic Plan Design

3.
Defined Contribution versus Defined Benefit Plans

4.
Risk Management through Retirement Planning

Part II. Defined Contribution Plan Types

5.
Overview of Defined Contribution Plan Types and Their Use in Comprehensive Retirement Plan Design

6.
Profit Sharing Plans and Money Purchase Pension Plans

7.
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

8.
Cash or Deferred Plans Under Section 401(k)

9.
Section 403(b) Plans

10.
Section 457 Plans

11. Behavioral Finance and Defined Contribution Plan Design

Part III. Special Purpose Retirement Planning Structures

12.
Individual Retirement Arrangements

13.
Keogh Plans, SEPs and SIMPLE Plans

14.
Executive Retirement Arrangements

15.
Employee Stock Compensation Plans

16. Managing Retirement Assets in Multiple Plan Structures

Part IV. Defined Benefit Plans and Hybrid Retirement Plans

17.
Defined Benefit Plan Features

18.
Cost and Funding Considerations

19.
Budgeting Pension Costs

20.
Insured Funding Instruments and Trust Fund Plans

21. Cash Balance and Other Hybrid Retirement Plans

22. Plan Termination Insurance for Single-Employer Pension Plans

23.
Employers’ Accounting for Pensions

24. Defined Benefit Plan Management

Part V. Tax and Legal Requirements

25.
Tax Qualification Requirements

26.
Tax QualificationRequirements (Continued)

27. Other Legal Requirements

28. Fiduciary Oversight and Plan Governance

Part VI. Wealth Management and Distribution Planning

29.
Investing Retirement Assets

30.
Retirement Asset Wealth Management

31.
Retirement Asset Distribution Planning

Appendix 1. Social Security and Medicare

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Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

Author: Eric Foner

Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for American independence.
Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career with a careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in Great Britain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's political and social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering a new form of political writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to a reading public far broader than previous writers had commanded. He shows which of Paine's views remained essentially fixed throughout his career, while directing attention to the ways his stance on social questions evolved under the pressure of events. This enduring work makes clear the tremendous impact Paine's writing exerted on the American Revolution, and suggests why he failed to have a similar impact during his career in revolutionary France. It also offers new insights into the nature and internal tensions of the republican outlook that helped to shape the Revolution.
In a new preface, Foner discusses the origins of this book and the influences of the 1960s and 1970s on its writing. He also looks at how Paine has been adopted by scholars and politicians of many stripes, and has even been called the patron saint of the Internet.