Southeast Tile Distributors Inc. is a building tile wholesaler that originated in Atlanta but is now considering expansion throughout the region to take advantage of continued strong population growth.

The company has been a "mom and pop" operation supplemented by part-time workers, so it currently has no corporate retirement plan. How- ever, the rm's owner, Andy Johnson, believes it will be necessary to start a corporate pension plan to attract the quality employees needed to make the expansion succeed.

Andy has asked you, a recent business school graduate who has just joined the rm, to prepare a brie ng paper on pension funds.

To help you get started, he wrote down the follow- ing questions: Discuss the risks to both the plan sponsor and plan bene ciaries under the four types of pension plans.