Description: Article describing some of the significant changes occurring in Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall with a focus on life insurance and conversion to a private pension market.

Description: A description of the changes to Social Security that will occur in 2020.

Description: HI Trust Fund: Actuarial Methodology and Principal Assumptions from Pension Section News, October 2000, Issue No. 44.

Description: The OASDI from a Canadian Perspective Review by Bernard Dussault of the 2000 Trustees Report on the OASDI from The Pension Forum, December 2000, Volume 12, Issue No. 1.

Description: The Social Security System faces a funding crunch some 30 years in the future. Democrats and Republicans agree on the funding problem and that investing in the stock market can help fill the gap. But both views cannot be right.

Description: Article focusing on the current and future state of health insurance in the U.S.

Description: Chairperson's Corner discussing actuarial principles and what we as actuaries value in our work.

Description: This article looks at changes with the Canada Pension Plan in 1998, the creation of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, their policy, investment targets and returns. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: This study was sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section. This paper explores the relative significance of aging as a determinant of financial cost of health care beyond age 50, with particular attention to the effect for ages 65 and older. The paper presents concepts of aging factors and aging curves, which define relative values between ages for utilization or cost of health care services. General conclusions are drawn from Medicare data that utilization and cost differ by age, but that aging factors vary across services and may be less significant at very old ages. The author then turns to the question of measuring the significance of an aging curve assumption and what accuracy is lost in the simpler alternative of a single value across an age range.

Description: The author examines if the actuarial profession is focused enough on what may be a worldwide social insurance and social security revolution.