Description: The paper presents arguments to show that a fully funded social security scheme is no more secure economically than a pay as you go scheme....that is, for real retirement income security the funding mechanism is irrelevant. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.

Description: This is the speech given by Kenneth W. Stewart, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, to the 25th Annual Actuarial Research Conference. The speech focuses on the following global trends: 1. Population aging, 2. The spread of affluence, 3. The rise of technology, 4. Global competition, and, 5. The fungibility factor, e.g., in our brave new future world, a Scottish customer will go to his local bank branch to buy life insurance from his German insurer. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 1.