Description: A look at recent changes to Canada's social security system - the politics, stakeholder views and implications for retirement readiness.

Description: This report presents the results of the work undertaken in response to the SIPF’s request. The premise of this work is that there is a need for a concise but still comprehensive and focused report on the financial health and prospects of state and municipal plans to give stakeholders the overview they need to come to informed opinions about the need for changes to the structure of these plans. The report needs to strike a balance between narrative and quantitative indicators of a plan’s financial health.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the May 2017 Pension Section News published by the Pension Section.

Description: Update on the activities of the Retirement Plans Experience Committee

Description: Paper discussing the pension termination insurance program for single employer plans established under Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: The author finds that misperceptions and lack of an appropriate context are the reason that illiquid investments - in particular annuities- have been the less desirable component of a retirement plan. The paper also suggests several catalysts that could spark a dramatic reversal of the current situation. From the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, March 2011.

Description: This paper is a response to the comments on the Tracker Plan, a concept for U.S. pension reform.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: Participation requirements, minimum vesting standards, joint and survivor annuity benefits, maximum limitations, special problems under offset plans, & impact on defined benefit vs. defined contribution plans. 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.3

Description: In this article, the author discusses private pension policy recommendations from the first interim report of the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, released in May 1980, noting that it contains several recommendations similar to reforms strongly urged upon actuaries three years ago Record, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 902 by Karen Ferguson, Director of the Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C. The author of this article discusses recommendations, including political views, on topics including mandatory pension coverage, vesting, and survivor protection.

Description: Recent studies have suggested that teachers would be better off with DC or Cash Balance plans than with DB. Detailed data from CalSTRS support the opposite.