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

Description: Article focuses on a number of strategies that can be used to improve results in a DC plan. It is based on information from several outside sources. It encourages people with DB backgrounds to learn more about DC issues.

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 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.

Description: This paper talks about the risks of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Description: The abstract for a paper that focuses on default distributions and why they are important.

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

Description: This interview provides information on Retirement Health and Happiness, the first in a new series of publications designed to improve retirement literacy.

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