Description: This article provides a summary of the Actuarial Standards Board work and hearing evaluating whether a new ASOP is needed for public sector pension plans.

Description: Feature article discussing the National Academy of Social Insurance NASI, its 2011 Annual Conference, and in particular the session on Social Security Reform.

Description: Column highlighting the upcoming release for RP2014/MP-2014, rationale for new scales including two-dimensional mortality projection techniques and upcoming SOA educational opportunities on these topics.

Description: Summary of current Pension Section activities, including continuing education opportunities.

Description: Staff fellow column that highlights various efforts at encouraging lifetime income in retirement plans. Includes discussion of American Academy of Actuaries paper, U.S. Dept of Labor efforts, and and SOA-sponsored research paper.

Description: This article talks about RPEC’s February 2014 release of exposure draft reports for RP-2014 base tables and the MP-2014 projection scale (for use by U.S. pension actuaries), the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) new final pension mortality tables for Canadian pension plans.

Description: A View from the SOA’s Staff Fellow for Retirement

Description: Detailed information about a Measurement Framework to evaluate existing designs and to illustrate how certain designs do or do not meet the fundamentals and where tradeoffs lie.

Description: Join the SOA Research Institute for a webcast discussing a Deloitte Consulting research study that explored "What Retirement Plan Features do Employees Really Want?" The purpose of the study was to gain insights into the features of retirement plans that are important to employees and where they may make tradeoffs for the features they find most important. This report provides important observations for employers and other retirement stakeholders as they assess retirement plans.

Description: Andy provides a succinct summary of activities that he, the council and many other engaged parties have undertaken this past year with regard to the now firmly established Retirement 20/20 initiative, including links to working drafts of papers submitted and presentations made at June’s Retirement 20/20: New Designs for a New Century conference held in Washington, D.C.