Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report—1998 Fiscal Year by Joan M. Weiss from Pension Section News, June 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: SMI Trust Fund: Estimates under Alternative II Assumption for Aged and Disabled Excluding End-Stage Renal Disease Enrollees from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: This articles features three study notes for used for the Retirement Benefits course 8 exam: Current Issues in Social Security by Steven McKay Mortality Tables for Pension Plans by D. Grubbs and M. Oliver and Valuation of Pension Benefits for Disabled participants by Edward Sypher

Description: HI Trust Fund: Actuarial Methodology and Principal Assumptions from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: OASDI Trust Fund: Principal Economic and Demographic Assumptions from Pension Section News, October 2000, Issue No. 44.

Description: This article reveals the results of a survey by the Pension Section Research Team showing that U.S. Social Security reform is a diverse issue for actuaries. From Pension Section News, April 2006, No. 61.

Description: This article describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the SMI trust fund under the intermediate assumptions. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: Summary of 2000 IRC, PBGC, Federal Income Tax, Social Security, and Medicare Amounts by Heidi R. Dexter from Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 43.

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds section which presents the assumptions and methods underlying the actuarial estimates.

Description: This is an introduction to the SOA call for essays around risk strategies pertaining to the diverse risks found in retirement. We are pleased that these essays can be included in this issue of Pension Section News, along with a short interview with each author.