Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: An analysis of the revamped state sponsored retirement income pension gives insight into design and funding elements that might figure in reforming social security in the United States.

Description: The results of new research on the current state and future opportunity of the retirement market in China.

Description: The abstract for the paper Rationalizing the Security and Ultimate Delivery of Promised Private Retirement Plan Benefits: The Missing Asset

Description: This presentation from Session 69 of the SOA May 2004 Anaheim Spring Meeting discusses the application of financial economics on smaller pension plans, in particular, those of private and nonprofit organizations. Panelists address agency cost, closely held corporation issues, impact of bundled service arrangements and investment constraints From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.

Description: The article and guidebook of the same name use a stochastic simulation model to examine potential impacts of public pension plan risk-sharing policies on government employers and plan members. Policies examined include simple policies such as COLAs and employee contributions that are contingent upon investment returns or funded ratios, and more-complex policies similar to those used in the Wisconsin Retirement System.

Description: The editorial provides an overview of articles in this issue that explore and illustrate solutions to current retirement challenges.

Description: Interview with Karen Lockridge, FSA, FCIA and Francisca Quinn regarding fiduciary concerns with and future outlook for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.

Description: Majority of Latin American Consumers Worry About Financial Security in Retirement Yet Only 20% Have Done Any Planning:

Description: The intent of this paper is to establish a correct balance between company interests in investing pension fund assets in the company's own stock and the prudent requirements of good risk management. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.