Description: This is a study of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) mortality experience. The study consists of data furnished by the PBGC for the time period of September 30, 2009 through September 30, 2014. All of the data come from single-employer pension plans taken over by the PBGC in a distress termination. This is the SOA’s first study of PBGC experience and provides another comparison point of retirement plans mortality experience for work performed by pension actuaries.

Description: Read the September 2019 issue of Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: The first of two reports focused on how families cope with the final years of life. This report summarizes 40 interviews with children of recently deceased parents.

Description: Read the June 2019 issue of Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Fact sheet about surveys of individuals 85+ years old and children of individuals 85+ years old looking at post-retirement experiences.

Description: A fact sheet summarizing the report, Optimizing Retirement Income by Integrating Retirement Plans, IRAs, and Home Equity.

Description: Interview with Assia Billig, FSA, FCIA, Ph.D., appointed chief actuary of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions’ (OSFI’s) Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) in April 2019.

Description: View the Retirement Literacy fast facts report.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Stanford Center on Longevity released a report exploring the feasibility of implementing the “Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy.

Description: Pension stats sheet for the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors Retirement Plan