Description: Offers some perspectives on retirement advice and the employer after the April, 2016 Department of Labor new fiduciary rules. Builds on SOA research project from the Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risk, Retirement and Investment Advice: A Guide for Employers

Description: Drivers for mortality are apparently linked to socio-economic differentials within different societal groups. Actuaries are not the only profession interested in unravelling the mystery of why different groups within society experience such different mortality rates. The author gives examples from occupational pension plans in Canada, the UK and Germany.

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: This paper reports on the status of the Welfare Plan Disclosure Acts in states and plans subject to the law. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

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

Description: Interview with Sudipto Banerjee

Description: Read the September 2017 issue of Pension Section News published by the The Pension Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This is a digest of reports on topics of current interest including: 1. Future Outlook Study, 2. Mortality Investigation on Individual Lives, and 3. Legislative Matters of Interest to Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56.

Description: Discussion of the need to understand the implications of demographic and family diversity for the design of retirement programs. The design of retirement programs is a design of programs for the elderly, who are more often women, because women live longer and because their work histories often lead to reduced levels of pension and social security benefits.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.