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 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.

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 is a panel discussion session on the developments in the group insurance market in the 1980s including designing benefit plans with the employee as the focus, the cost to the corporate employer, and the group insurance underwriter's outlook.

Description: This article summarizes participant responses from the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change project.

Description: This paper is concerned with the implications of demographic and labor force changes for work and retirement. It discusses the role of gradual retirement in introducing flexibility into the range of choices between work and retirement. Part I explains the rationale for gradual retirement. Part II discusses some of the major barriers and possible solutions to gradual retirement. Part III contains some concluding remarks. From the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium, June 2002.

Description: This panel discussion is about public pension plans including nondiscrimination issues, plan design issues, funding, political considerations, public plans as a source of budget revenue and other current topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This 1981 discussion session focuses on current U.S. pension topics. Among the current topics are inflation protection for pensioners, converting final pay plans to dollars per month and career pay plans, the funding of negotiated pension plans and Social Security integration.