What Is A Hybrid Retirement Plan? 
Retirement plans continue to `` Evolve '' and not necessarily change . In this instance the term hybrid retirement plan may include plans that were popular in the 1980 's and 1990 's , they are -LRB- cash balance , pension equity , floor-offset , age-weighted profit-sharing , new comparability profit-sharing and target benefit plans -RRB- . Today , usually hybrid plans combine features of a defined benefit and defined contribution plan , to bridge the predicted crisis by many experts of the liabilities that are underfunded in traditional defined benefit plans . 