The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, MU, or University of MissouriâColumbia) is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U.S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River.
A Simplified Employee Pension Plan (SEP) is a relatively uncomplicated retirement savings vehicles. A SEP allows employees to make contributions on a tax-favored basis to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) owned by the employees.
Traditional pension plans are disappearing from the private sector, except for plans tied to labor union contracts. Public sector employees are the largest group with active and growing pension plans. The setup of traditional pension plans is easy to understand, as are the reasons for their disappearance.