The retirement plan landscape has undergone a series of radical changes in recent decades. For a long time, the traditional pension plan was dominant. Under these plans, employers put money into funds that pay retired workers, and sometimes their survivors, a regular income for the remainder of their lives. However, traditional defined benefit pension plans began to lose ground among businesses of all sizes in the 1990s due to their high operational costs, regulatory complexity, and potential for expanding liabilities.
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