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

Description: Through this Call for Essays, the SOA seeks to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisers, employers and other stakeholders.

Description: This paper presents an approach to analyzing continuing care retirement community [CCRC] data, and demonstrates the methods using data from a large CCRC. It is assumed that residents make transitions among a number of states that represent the levels of care required by residents. There is randomness associated with both the transition times and the states entered at these times. The model is conveniently characterized in terms of transition intensity functions, which represent the instantaneous rates of transition between pairs of states.

Description: This paper suggests that individual decisions to retire are based on personal resource allocations, institutional influences, and social standards. The paper then attempts to create a decision-making framework in which to accommodate this range of influences. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

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

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: The SOA is pleased to make available a series of reports highlighting the SOA's extensive boy of research on post-retirement risks and issues.

Description: A fact sheet summarizing The Future of Retirement in China research material.

Description: Description of focus group research conducted in 2013 by the Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks. The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of how people make decisions about when to retire and about managing financial risks in retirement. Eight focus groups of financially resource constrained retirees who had retired voluntarily were interviewed. The report offers many quotes from retirees and a chance to “give a face” to much of what we say about retirement.

Description: Article discusses how middle class Americans are doing in saving for retirement, sources of incomes and results of the Survey of Consumer Finances.