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  • A traditional pension, often called a Defined Benefit (DB) plan promises a guaranteed paycheck during your retirement.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Moshe Milevsky 2010

  • Worldwide pension crisis - What crisis in Nigeria? pensions to their employees all over the world operate the Final Salary Pension Scheme also known as a Defined Benefit Pension Scheme (DB).

    WN.com - Articles related to Colo. Chews On Candy, Soda Tax Plan 2010

  • Worldwide pension crisis - What crisis in Nigeria? pensions to their employees all over the world operate the Final Salary Pension Scheme also known as a Defined Benefit Pension Scheme (DB).

    WN.com - Articles related to Colo. Chews On Candy, Soda Tax Plan 2010

  • If you're in a final salary scheme with your company - which you'll often hear called a Defined Benefit scheme - your pension will be based on the number of years you've worked, not on how it's invested.

    This is Money | Home 2010

  • "Defined," in which growing businesses (say, from 3-5 employees to 15-50 employees) invest more, automate more processes, scale and share knowledge, and measure data more closely, in order to interact with customers more consistently.

    SugarCRM - Commercial Open Source CRM - SugarCRM News 2010

  • The SEI categorizes Maturity Level 3 as "Defined" which means that the organization has developed and implemented processes that are well characterized and understood.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • For a good account of the writing of the speech see Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, “A Presidency Defined in One Speech,” Washington Post, February 1, 2002.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • For a good account of the writing of the speech see Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, “A Presidency Defined in One Speech,” Washington Post, February 1, 2002.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The number of so-called Phase I early-stage compounds that haven't found a Big Pharma patron rose to 904 in 2009, up from 233 in 2000, according to Defined Health, a biopharmaceutical industry business development and strategy firm.

    Pfizer, Biotech Partner to Develop Drugs for Rare Diseases Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • Even this might not be enough: An October study by EBRI and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association found that, depending on their incomes, 54% to 73% of employees would fall short of amassing enough money to retire if they enrolled in their companies' 401k plans at the default-contribution rate and were auto-escalated by 1% a year to a maximum of 6%.

    401(k) Law Suppresses Saving for Retirement Anne Tergesen 2011

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