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  • Equity Risk Preiums
    period from 1969 to 2009. Table 1 below breaks this return down by century while Table 2 shows international ... international comparison. The following Table decomposes equity returns by source:   Issues in Using Historical ...
    • Authors: Victor Modugno
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Economics
  • Thirty Years of Continuing Education–What Have we Learned?
    InstanceEndEditable --> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Table" --> Thirty Years of Continuing Education–What Have ... developed distance-learning programs that allow individual EA’s to complete their CPE requirements. EA’s ...

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    • Authors: Richard Wendt
    • Date: May 2007
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • Observations on our Observations
    Observations on our Observations Observations on recent SOA study on input and output smoothing ... Asset valuation; Funding policy; Market value of assets; Pension plan assets; Pension valuation By Joseph ...
    • Authors: Joseph Silvestri
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Funding; Pensions & Retirement>Plan design; Public Policy
  • Women's Retirement Challenges
    specific levers to be pulled outside of changing individual behaviors. One reason for this is the erosion ... reliance on defined contribution plans has increased individual’s financial risk. Even worse, only 50 percent ...
    • Authors: Linda Stone
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Professional Values>Public interest representation
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retirement risks; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Social Security
  • A View from the SOA's Staff Fellow for Retirement
    A View from the SOA's Staff Fellow for Retirement Andy Peterson provides for interesting ... simply accept results we get from a model (e.g., valuation program) without testing and evaluating whether ...
    • Authors: Andrew Peterson
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
  • Obesity and the Pension Actuary
    behavioral effects contribute not only directly to an individual's weight, but can themselves constitute risk ... insufficient follow-up period is provided for. An individual might be obese in her 40s with an onset of diabetes ...
    • Authors: Sam Gutterman
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • Chairperson’s Corner
    Chairperson’s Corner Faisal comments on Pension Section activities and new ideas for the ... improvement and the implications for setting mortality table (and mortality improvement) assumptions. We are ...
    • Authors: Faisal Siddiqi
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • In Defense of Assumptions and Methods
    term is used to describe the age at which an individual withdraws from the plan (as opposed to the labor ... example most police retirement systems allow an individual to retire from the police department at a relatively ...

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    • Authors: Lawrence Mitchell
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Don't Let Disability Derail Retirement Security
    devastating an extended disability can be to an individual and his/her family. Not only does the employee ... and/or the participant make contributions to an individual account within the plan on behalf of the participant ...
    • Authors: Anna M Rappaport
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Professional Values>Public interest representation
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retirement risks
  • Perspectives from Anna: The Relativity of “Success” and “Failure”
    system will do a good job for someone unless an individual has a number of years of work with coverage, ... the issue of Disability Coverage in a World of Individual Responsibility. I encouraged that topic and was ...
    • Authors: Anna M Rappaport
    • Date: May 2013
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retirement risks