Description: This document is a summary of a presentation made at the 1975 SOA annual meeting discussing current and future trends with regard to: a Population and mortality, b Family structure, c Forms and role of government, d Economic forces including the saving process, productivity, and inflation., and e Public attitudes. The impact of these items on savings vs protection, individual versus pension, public versus private, pension product design, marketing and distribution and investment policy is discussed.

Description: This paper identifies important areas of post-retirement risk, with emphasis on advanced ages and on the perspective of the individual. It also includes public perceptions about post-retirement risk and information about the links of some plan features to post-retirement risk. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Graphs mortality experience over the prior 15 years, show possible trends over the prior 80 years, discusses the impact on liabilities and funding of the New York public retirement system based on projections of life expectancy, and discusses the possible factors that have affected mortality.

Description: This is the Demographic Perspectives on the Rise of Longevity abstract authored by Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher, James W. Vaupel and Francisco Villavicencio for Session 4A of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: The Living to 100 monograph is composed of the papers, essays, panel discussions, teaching and keynote sessions presented at the symposium.

Description: The author advocates trying to maximize the diversification of investment portfolios based on creating multiple sources of income, each taxed in its own way, based on the premise that taxation of retirement income in the future is no longer predictable. From the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, March 2011.

Description: This paper outlines findings from judgement and decision making and behavioral economics literature that focus on elements of the retirement savings decision. From the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, March 2011.

Description: New tools for managing insurance risk have particularly emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, usually with roots in the financial markets. A strong motivating factor has been the record number of natural catastrophes and their impact in insured losses. New organization or joint ventures have been created to meet this demand. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.

Description: The objective of this paper is to explore the issues necessary to develop an integrated model of operational risk (OR) and financial risk (FR) within the framework of enterprise risk management (ERM). From 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS07-1.

Description: This article presents some observations on inverted yield curves of U.S. Treasury securities and the correlation of volatility of Treasury security interest rates with their absolute level. The time covered by the study is December 1953 to December 1988. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.