Description: Reflecting Congressional desire for unified reports on all Federal retirement systems, Public Law 95-595, signed by the President in October 1978, requires annual reports from these systems similar to the ERISA reports from private sector plans. The author, as Chief Actuary of the DoD, discusses the first report produced.

Description: This article is about papers submitted in response to a Retirement 20/20 call for submission of papers about Tier II retirement systems, i.e. those that are employer-provided retirement benefits that fit between social insurance and private savings.

Description: Actuarial Society Members On The Occasion of the Society Meeting in Philadelphia on October 19-20, 1893. Photo and names of attendees.

Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: Profile of an actuary who owns Woodward Cave, a bat cave in Pennsylvania and Profile of an actuary who is training to be a chef de cuisine at culinary school in Paris.

Description: This overview of the pros and cons of individual accounts and the paygo system was offered by two speakers at the 1999 symposium, “Impact of Social Security Privatization on Retirement Income. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: MacGinnitie discusses how retirement may change in the 21st century. First, he discusses what forces are shaping current retirement trends and what might happen to redefine retirement in the 21st century. He then examines what this might mean for private pension systems, and how actuaries can adapt.

Description: This is an article regarding a trip the author took in search of centenarians in a remote area of Pakistan.

Description: Short interviews with actuaries discussing their hobbies and pass-times.

Description: Feature article discussing the due diligence actuaries should perform before agreeing to become a member of a board.