Description: The abstract for the paper The Impact of The Equity Risk Premium and Population Aging on The Canadian Retirement Savings System.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of inflation on pension plans including legislative reaction, benefits retirement patterns and plan investments.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of double-digit inflation on pension plans including the impact on assumptions, design, prefunding of post-retirement indexing and prefunding of flat benefit plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the recent economic environment, the changes in household economic activity, the effect of the continued high rate of inflation on the needs and responses of customers of financial security products and participants of non-insured employee benefit plans during their working years. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This article was presented at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and addresses the impact of the following changes on future needs for pension coverage, future amounts of pension benefits, and costs of funding.

Description: This is a panel discussion about the economic outlook in the 1960's.

Description: This session presented at the SOA's April 1976 Washington D.C. Meeting provides information on the impact of inflation on Life Insurer Income Tax and Tax Liability and the impact that the U.S. tax policy on investments, jobs and inflation.

Description: Discusses the influences that foreign economies have on the U.S. economy and the risks that those influences create for the U.S. life insurance industry.

Description: This article discusses how unemployment and underemployment information can help improve economic forecasts, insurance assumption setting and risk management. It summarizes the current modeling practices of unemployment which shows a deficiency of using unemployment/ underemployment information in actuarial works. It also gives three examples of using unemployment/underemployment information for economic assumption setting, new business growth prediction and stress scenarios related to the labor market.

Description: One component of this project is to model the impact of population structure on returns across asset classes. Previous research suggests that an overlapping generations (OLG) model is an appropriate modeling approach. This literature review has been prepared to provide background information regarding OLG models and the diversity and complexity that may be introduced into such models. This review has been prepared to provide a fuller discussion of some of the characteristics that may be especially relevant in our decision-making regarding the model we will build.