Reason Foundation’s Pension Integrity Project Gold Standard in Public Retirement System Design series reviews the best practices of state-level public retirement systems and provides a design framework for states struggling with post-employment benefit debt and retirement security risks.
The series offers recommendations to help states design effective retirement systems that meet the needs of both employees and taxpayers.
The Gold Standard in Public Retirement System Design Series includes:
- Best practices in the design and utilization of defined contribution plans
- Best practices in incorporating risk sharing into defined benefit pension plans
- Best practices for cost-of-living adjustment designs in public pension systems
- Best practices in hybrid retirement plan design
- Best practices for pension debt amortization
- Best practices in optional defined contribution plans for public workers
- Best practices in cash balance plan design
- Designing an optimized retirement plan for today’s state and local government employees
If you have any questions or would like more information, please email the Reason Pension Reform Help Desk at pensionhelpdesk@reason.org.
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