Description: This document summarizes the many potential hazards individuals may face during retirement. It is designed to serve as a complement to other retirement planning resources.

Description: 2007 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey Report - Understanding and Managing the Risks of Retirement

Description: This study, produced by the MetLife Mature Market Institute in partnership with the Society of Actuaries, demonstrates that family type is an important consideration in financial and retirement planning. This tip sheet, based on the study findings, provides areas that are important for all family types to consider, followed by additional considerations based on specific family types.

Description: Legislative changes and the economic environment have created a need for plan sponsors to understand and manage pension risk and volatility. Dynamic asset allocation glidepaths reduce risk as plans become better funded. But what about the risk that plan sponsors face when their plans are underfunded? The presenters will discuss the challenges of managing pension risk when assets don't keep pace with liabilities.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: The article is a summary of Session 9PD at the Society of Actuaries annual meeting in New Orleans in October 2001. Terminal funding the purchase of annuities by pension plans usually at plan termination and stable value GIC's became major product lines in the 1980's. This article describes the changes in the those products, the markets and regulatory environment.

Description: There are reasons for the retirement actuary to be optimistic about the future of our practice. There are reasons to believe that actuaries will play an increasingly large and valuable role in the retirement industry and there are significant opportunities for growth—from both an individual and a profession wide perspective— within the pension consulting field.

Description: The authors take a deeper look at the long-standing motto of the Society of Actuaries, from John Ruskin, “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.”

Description: The September 2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter

Description: A summary of learnings about multiemployer and public plans. Encouraging all retirement actuaries to become better educated on the various sectors of the retirement industry. Take time to meet actuaries from other sectors to learn about their experiences and challenges. We’ll all benefit when we have a better understanding of each other and focus on areas of common concern rather than our differences