Description: Essay submission on impact of COVID-19 on retirement.

Description: This paper uses data from two longitudinal surveys to examine the relationship between psychological well-being and financial well-being of older women and men, with specific interest in differences by marital status and duration of widowhood. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study WLS provides a look at the consequences of relatively early widowhood. The Health and Retirement Study HRS has interviewed a representative sample of individuals 50 and older over the last two decades. We use the data from that survey to examine the adjustment to widowerhood over a larger age range, but with likely less precision to measure differences among women of a single age.

Description: This full report summarizes the findings of a study focused on the financial perspectives of aging and retirement of Americans across give generations.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute are pleased to present the results of new research on the retirement market in China.

Description: This paper provides a summary of the Retirement Annuities Act of the Government of Alberta which came into force on July I, 1951. Two main purposes are served by the Act. The means are provided by which any Canadian citizen who has been resident in the Province of Alberta for the past three years may purchase a retirement income on very attractive terms. Further, the funds received under the Act will be loaned to municipalities for local improvements, at lower rates of interest than could be obtained on their own security. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This report explores the impact on financial assets as baby boomers enter into retirement. The authors conducted a literature search and then a detailed analysis of two papers supporting the theory demographic factors can have an impact on asset prices.

Description: In this article the authors work out the expected discounted penalty function for Levy processes. Unlike the classical compound Poisson case that models the individual claim size distribution and obtains from it the aggregate distribution, here the aggregate claims distribution is known. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: This paper develops an equitable and practical method of calculating and assessing the required extra premiums to give insurance protection to those applicants subject to the factor in this latter group which includes most of the accident hazards connected with vocations and avocations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: As part of the 2019 Risks and Process or Retirement Survey, this report provides an overview of selected results, focusing on the social and emotional world of retirees by researching their adjustment to retirement and their happiness, loneliness and the social engagements in which they participate in retirement.

Description: This paper addresses a study of surplus with the following goals in mind: 1. Determine surplus available for financing additional business, including new ventures. 2. Facilitate measurement of financial performance by line of business consistent with reasonable corporate goals. 3. Provide a mechanism for evaluating alternative strategies based on their estimated marginal effect on the company's ability to meet the above corporate goal. From Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1988, Vol. 3