Description: This report provides a framework of analyses and methods that can be use to compare and assess strategies for developing lifetime retirement income.

Description: The abstract for the paper A Comprehensive Defined Benefit Pension Plan Reform Proposal

Description: This paper proposes a mandatory universal pension system MUPS which would be a system of fully portable IRA accounts piggy-backed on to existing Social Security withholding.

Description: This is the report of the findings from the Retirement Plan Preference Survey.

Description: This session covers Pension actuaries who are becoming more involved in the administration of defined-benefit pension plans. Along with this work comes special challenges that are different from those seen in more traditional pension actuarial work. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 93PD

Description: This presentation from Session 56 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the risks faced by sponsors of defined benefit pension plans and how actuaries can help these plan sponsors adopt plan design strategies to manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: Panel provides an analysis of legal and actuarial issues which must be considered when modifying an existing retirement program, including the new hybrid plan designs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a panel discussion that focused on retirement age issues, trends and assumptions related to pension plans. Also a discussion of factors that affect early retirement elections

Description: This paper discusses the role of gradual retirement in introducing flexibility into the range of choices between work and retirement.

Description: This paper considers the question of how the adjustment mechanisms described for the Swedish and German social security systems might be incorporated into private sector DB plans of the following types: multi-employer and single employer.