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Download full textKing, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1995
The graded payment method of receiving traditional annuity benefits was introduced by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) in 1982 to introduce an inflation-fighting factor into the annuity program. Under the graded method, in contrast to the standard method, a part of current annuity dividend income is withheld each year to…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics), Money Management
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
Until the beginning of 1994, federal law permitted mandatory retirement of tenured faculty at age 70. The Committee on Mandatory Retirement in Higher Education, formed by the National Research Council, was charged by Congress to examine potential effects on colleges, universities, and faculty members of ending the exemption for tenured faculty…
Descriptors: Age, Age Discrimination, Aging in Academia, College Faculty
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1995
Following the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the increased regulatory burden placed on defined benefit pension plans, the less complex fully funded defined contribution plan emerged as a more attractive and increasingly popular alternative. Traditionally the standard approach to pensions in the educational…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Economic Change, Economic Impact, Federal Legislation
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1993
This paper reports on a study of higher education health-care coverage for retirees including trends in coverage since 1987, major current provisions of institutions' coverage, and program cost controls. A total of 1,6701 institutions responded to a retiree heath-care survey. Among the findings were: (1) 61 percent of colleges and universities and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employees, Faculty College Relationship, Health Care Costs
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1996
This issue describes the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) life-annuity income options and traces the trends in their selection over a 17-year period, 1978-1994. Other income-related choices at or before retirement are also explored. The article emphasizes that participants in defined…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Factors, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Heller, Michael; King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
This paper describes a method of projecting inflation-adjusted (real) retirement benefit replacement ratios for defined contribution retirement plans such as TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association--College Retirement Equities Fund). The illustrated ratios are comparable to the ratios in defined benefit plans that result…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Fringe Benefits, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics)
