Description: Portability of pension benefits allows an employee to maintain pension benefits as he leaves one company and joins another. Advocates of portability point approvingly to the way Social Security - a portable pension plan - handles employee mobility. In their view, the private pension system would be fairer to participants and close a gap in pension coverage if it had more portability.

Description: This article notes that some actuarial educators observe that Courses 3 and 4 in the SOA’s new education and examination system will demand more study time from students than the former courses did and, therefore, will call for more help and understanding from the students’ employers.