Description: Discusses some basic issues for women to consider in planning for the possibility of being alone.

Description: This paper employs a static-component projection methodology as a first step in a more complex research agenda focusing on developing detailed population projections in which mortality, disability, and disease are represented as linked phenomena with changes in any one impacting the other two. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: Majority of Latin American Consumers Worry About Financial Security in Retirement Yet Only 20% Have Done Any Planning:

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Pension Section is pleased to make available a research report addressing the potential consequences of accumulating education debt for retirement security.

Description: This is the Executive Summary of the results of a study, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation, which assesses the extent to which retirement planning software programs help users understand post-retirement risks.

Description: 1958 Report follows the pattern of an earlier 1953 report of the Special Committee on Experience under Self-Administered Retirement Plans TSA 1953 Reports, 52. This report reflects experience with pensioner mortality only, updating the experience from the 1953 report, and adding the experience of five other groups.

Description: This fact sheet summarizes the results of a survey analyzing retirees’ and pre-retirees’ concerns on retirement. It also reveals how these groups have prepared or are preparing to face risks and offers personal risk management strategies and tips.

Description: This article focuses on retirement decisions, phased retirement and related policy issues, calling for actuaries to take on leadership roles in retirement public discussion.

Description: This report presents the results of a 2005 telephone study among Americans ages 45 to 80. The purpose of the study was to evaluate Americans' awareness of potential financial risks, how this awareness impacts the management of their finances with respect to retirement and how Americans are managing the process of leaving the workforce.