Description: R. Evan Inglis, the new chairperson of the SOA/AAA Joint Pension Finance Task Force, shares with us his view of the important pension finance issues facing actuaries and the task force’s vision of how pension finance can strengthen the actuarial profession.

Description: This article discusses the importance of employer retirement plans. Retirement security in the United States comes from Social Security, employer-sponsored benefits, and personal assets including housing and individual savings. The retirement system today is faced with a lot of change, threat and uncertainty. This article deals with the question: How do employers add value by sponsoring plans? It is positioned to open up a dialogue among actuaries and include embedded questions that are italicized throughout this article. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: This article discusses the call for papers entitled Re-envisioning Work and Retirement in the 21st Century which eventually led to the Re-envisioning Retirement in the 21st Century symposium that was held in Washington, D.C. on May 3-4, 2006. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: Measuring the Rate of Retirement in an Interval Beginning with an Eligibility Change Point by William H. Blake, Jr. from Pension Section News, January 1998, Issue No. 35.

Description: This article by Anna Rappaport and Eric Freden contains a compelling compendium of comments shared by top actuaries working in different roles with retirement systems who attended the fourth triennial “Living to 100” Symposium in Orlando, Fla.

Description: A letter to the editor regarding how the Social Security trustees project Social Security costs: Is it actuarial science or politics? From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report - 1998 Fiscal Year—Correction of Table from June 1999 Issue from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: This article provides a Retirement 20/20 update.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, highlights a book by John Turner on international perspectives of individual accounts. In clear and concise language, Turner, a senior policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute, explores the first-hand experience of other countries that have implemented, either partially or in full, aspects of social security reform that have been proposed for the U.S. system.

Description: SMI Trust Fund: Estimates under Alternative II Assumption for Aged and Disabled Excluding End-Stage Renal Disease Enrollees from Pension Section News, October 2000, Issue No. 44.