Description: Read the March 2017 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Through a review of legislative and policy provisions, this paper highlights national differences in retirement policy and identifies alternative retirement policy strategies. The countries studied are France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. In addition to the traditional tools of retirement policy, normal, deferred and early retirement, other areas of policy with a potential impact on retirement are studied. Data on retirement experience also are presented and discussed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1993, Vol. 45.

Description: This 1978 session looked at the intersection of social and private insurance including: 1. Social insurance involvement in casualty and property coverages 2. Impact of social insurance and individual disability insurance 3. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans in the United States 4. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans and on individual insurance plans in Canada

Description: Interview with Brett Dutton, the outgoing chair of the Retirement Section's Continuing Education Team. Brett discusses hot topics and recent developments in continuing education and ends with talking about the impact of his volunteer experience with the Society of Actuaries on his life.

Description: In the fourth quarter of 2022, publicly traded life insurers reported on their financial and operational activities, which included a downturn in income from alternative investments, the continuing impact of COVID, the impact of equity market returns on variable annuity products, and growth trends related to pension risk transfer transactions.

Description: Staff Fellow introductory column with discussion of the role of actuaries for defined contribution plans and recently released research on generational differences in retirement planning and savings.

Description: Read the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that reverses the sequence of the Euler (or gradient) allocation technique by calculating the marginal costs of risk exposures for a profit maximizing financial institution with risk averse counterparties, and then identifying a closed-form solution for the risk measure whose gradient delivers the correct marginal costs.

Description: Read the French language version of the March 2017 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This is a report on the status of the 1958 CSO Table with respect to approval for use in the various states as well as some indication as to when it might be adopted for companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.