To make this move, you have to work for a company that offers both a 401(k) defined contribution plan and a traditional defined benefit pension plan, and offers the option to roll assets from the former (the DC plan) to the latter (the DB pension).

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For pilots, it sponsors a defined-benefit pension plan, a defined-contribution plan and gives access to a 401(k) that doesn't include any company match.

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Union leaders said that they liked the look of the raise, but that what they really needed was a defined-benefit pension plan, not the defined-contribution plan that management had offered them.

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Most proposals for creating a defined-contribution alternative to a state pension plan or Social Security use an IRA or 401(k) model.

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Should pension fiduciaries be comforted that Congress has approved pension legislation that expressly permits providing independent advice to defined contribution plan participants?

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