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Sampson O. ... the separation was done under Public Act 234 of 1992 and public Act 523 of 1996; and the failure of anticipating the problems of liquidity which the City confronts was not well known or foreseen. In essence, the poverty of Detroit as an article in her paper suggest that, in “…1997, Michigan closed its traditional defined benefit pension plan to new state employee....defined contribution account in its place.” This altered the nature of pension benefit plan and began to offer ‘individual defined contribution account instead’ and from the plans it was estimated that Michigan’s Municipal Employees’ Retirement System…’ For instance its“… state sponsored and administered plans To have reasonable investment assumption (about 8%) for the longterm horizon of pension investing.” But it...