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A defined benefit plan guarantees retirement benefits for an employee. Some of the features include: Some of the features include: Employer sponsored: The employer funds and manages the plan.
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System [3] (OMERS) is a Canadian public pension fund, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.OMERS is a defined benefit, jointly sponsored, multi-employer public pension plan created in 1962 by Ontario provincial statute to administer retirement benefits and manage pension investment funds of local government employees in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Ontario Pension Board in Canada is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for certain employees of the provincial government and its agencies, boards, and commissions. [1]
OPTrust, officially the OPSEU Pension Trust, [2] is a legal trust formed by the contractual agreement between the two plan sponsors, Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Government of Ontario. [3] It manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan. [4]
Ontario regulates approximately 8,350 employment pension plans, which comprise more than 40 per cent of all registered pension plans in Canada [1] It was originally enacted as the Pension Benefits Act, 1965 (S.O. 1965, c. 96), and it was the first statute in any Canadian jurisdiction to regulate pension plans.
Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.
It is designed to provide up to 15 per cent of a retiree's pre-retirement income as an annual pension, adding about the same amount as the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for those who have contributed to both plans. Employees and employers would each contribute 1.9 per cent of an employee's income up to a maximum of $90,000 of income per year.
Defined benefit plans guarantee a specific retirement benefit to plan members, based on a formula that takes into account factors such as the member's years of service and earnings history. These plans are typically funded by contributions from both the employer and the employee, and are managed by professional investment managers.