Description: This article presents an overview of current research related to both public and private retirement income security.

Description: Review of pamphlet entitled Retirement Income in the United States - A Case for the Composite System. It covers, among other items, the relationship of the three major sources of retirement income in the United States - individual savings, group retirement plans, and Social Security. The conclusions reached ar

Description: A humorous take on pension nomenclature lets use jubilation versus retirement.

Description: This article presents a summary of ideas discussed in a 1999 symposium on the subject of the pros and cons of privatization as an element of the U.S. Social Security system. The four main topics addressed were: 1. Overview of Social Security reform. 2. Pros and cons of privatization. 3. Impact of privatization. 4. Practical issues of privatization. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: A review of the address of Rajendra P. Sharma F.S.A. 1979 of Philadelphia in July 1980 to the Actuarial Society of India in Bombay on the topic of the history of private pension plans in the United States.

Description: The subject of this brief article is “Individual Retirement Accounts, Actuarial Note No. 1-77, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board,” which summarizes the principal eligibility conditions for individual retirement accounts under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 including the liberalizations under the Tax Reform Act of 1976.

Description: Review of the Third Edition of Fundamentals of Private Pensions by Dr. Dan M. McGill by Donald Gubbs. The most comprehensive text yet on the subject of pension plans. This new Edition covers the wide variety of developments within the last 10 years, as well as the sweeping changes brought about by the passage of ERISA and also shows a deeper exploration of many of the fundamentals of private pensions.

Description: The primary focus of this newsletter is devoted to articles regarding the future of retirement plans.

Description: This article is about the need for changes in employee benefits and retirement. According to the author we have lost sight of the original goal: the encouragement of privately sponsored employee benefit programs so that workers and their families can live in dignity in retirement.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article encourages the proliferation of pre-retirement counseling programs and provides the author's views of the components of a successful program.