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.

Description: A book review. This book provides an analysis of what is meant by adequate retirement income through an examination of the social security systems of four countries Sweden, Germany, Belgium and Canada to a program of reform for the United States pension system.

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: The secretary of the SOA looks back over the last five years at changes in the life insurance business and the actuarial profession.

Description: This is a review if the book, 'The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years' by Steven Sass. The book is about the history of pension plans before the enactment of ERISA. Unlike texts about recent and current pension developments, this book will not be outdated by ongoing pension activity.

Description: In this article the author discusses the role pension actuaries should take regarding retirement security. She exhorts members to go beyond their professional requirements and find ways to help create a more secure retirement for citizens. From: The Actuary, February 2000, volume 34, issue 2.

Description: This article covers a round table discussion about the most significant housing issues affecting retirees.

Description: This about the issues facing actuaries in retirement systems as well as the support available to them. Some of the more significant issues are: Declining numbers of defined benefit plans, plan underfunding and the PBGC, increased regulatory complexity and compliance, and increased competition and employment opportunities.

Description: This is an article about retirement age and life expectancy. The article compares the normal retirement age and life expectancy in Germany and the United States.

Description: This article is the second of two parts the first published in the September, 1981 issue of The Actuary and provides a summary of the discussions which took place at Canada’s National Pension Conference. Topics discussed by delegates included the appropriate roles of both public and private sector pension plans in Canada.