How are workers in the United States to secure sufficient funds to make possible a retirement income that is in some essential way consistent with their expectations and their lifetime of achievements? Public policy debate over the topic of corporate retirement - a complex and hotly contested aspect of the larger U.S. retirement income system - continues to illustrate U.S. society's widespread disagreement over the most fundamental facets of employment in general. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	ix
Part I Ethical Issues in Pension Plan Structure	1
1 Pension Plan Design: An Examination of Corporate Social Responsibility	3
2 The Pension That Isn't: The Defined-Contribution Retirement Plan	19
3 Corporate Retirement Security: A Bankrupt Oxymoron	33
4 Trust, Portability, and Sustenance in Pension Plans	45
Part II Pension Plan Changes	53
5 Markets, Promises, and Responsibility: Reconsidering Pensions and Ethics	55
6 Not How Much But How: The Ethics of Cash Balance Pension Conversions	77
7 Ethics of Corporate Retirement Program Changes	95
8 Reflections on Markets, Retirement, and Corporate Responsibility	111
Part III Investing Pension Plan Funds	119
9 Pensions and the Companies They Own: New Fiduciary Duties in a Changing Social Environment	121
10 Pension Funds and Socially Responsible Investing: More Risky Than Responsible Business	151
11 Why Social Investing Threatens Public Employee Pension Funds	174
Index	191

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