Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report - 1998 Fiscal Year—Correction of Table from June 1999 Issue from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

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: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report—1998 Fiscal Year by Joan M. Weiss from Pension Section News, June 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: This paper summarizes and evaluates the CLASS Act's provisions and concludes it appears an expensive program. The paper proposes and discusses a Social Security/Long Term Care plan forming a four-pillar model for long term care. From the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, March 2011.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Aspects of the Railroad Retirement System by Joseph Musher. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: The author assess the financial performance of pension privatization in Europe.

Description: It is the purpose of this paper to fill in this gap in connection with the methods developed for analyzing the costs of one of the largest pension plans in the country Railroad Retirement program. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: The abstract for the paper Aging of the Elderly: Can an intragenerational Funding Approach Help Society with Improved Longevity?

Description: Using data from the Mexican Social Security Institute for labor risks, this paper classifies the severity of sequels in three categories: mild, moderate and high, and attempts to relate this level with the characteristics of the worker and his activities at work. Toward this goal, a model was built using a multilogistic regression, which allowed predicting the severity of physical sequels caused by a labor risk. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications on subjects that include U.K. social insurance, financing of hospital care, state examinations of life companies, approximate valuation of life and health insurance, mortality forecasting, and valuing estate tax.