Description: This article discusses Life-Cycle Saving and Investing for retirement. The article reviews how actuaries can add to the discussion of what is wanted and needed in retirement and how traditional replacement ratios can be linked with consumption targets.

Description: Highlights of recent media contributions by actuaries.

Description: The Funding Standard Account was introduced by ERISA to determine a defined benefit plan's compliance with the minimum funding standards of the law. In this article, the author discusses the following aspects of the Funding Standard Account: 1. Combining and offsetting Funding Standard Account amortization charges and credits, 2. The Full Funding Limitation Credit, 3. The Alternative Minimum Funding Standard Account, and 4. The minimum contribution required to assure avoidance of an Accumulated Funding Deficiency.

Description: Book review of Steve Vernon’s Money for Life, Turn your IRA and 401(k) into a Lifetime Retirement Paycheck

Description: This is a report on the Faculty meeting on 21 March regarding the funding of defined benefit pension schemes.

Description: This article discusses Dan M. McGill's presentation on the subject of a guaranty fund for private pensions, given to the Senior Branch of the Actuaries Club of New York on March 26, 1968. Dr. McGill offered his thoughts on the technical characteristics of such a fund.

Description: This article summarizes the views of the Interagency Task Force about the need for regulation of private pension plans with a focus on protecting vested benefits.

Description: This article discusses funding flat-benefit pensions and suggests steps to address what will likely be a future underfunded plan.

Description: Article E&E Development by Lauer in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: While actuarial tradition has it that the preferred way to finance private pension plans is by full funding, the author discusses that this principle cannot necessarily be extended to national Old Age Security plans if the population remains stationary.