Description: This paper describes the cost method used for the Canada Pension Plan.

Description: This presentation presents a decumulation strategy during retirement with the purchase of deferred annuities.

Description: Article from The Actuary February 1993 Volume 27, No. 2 highlights experience study on mortality from uninsured pension plans

Description: All things considered, caution needs to be applied to the use of so-called “standard” mortality tables. Sharpening up these blunt estimates by using individual assumptions reveals material differences in the structure of longevity, both between plans and within plans.

Description: This is a discussion about an ongoing dialogue on a model of personal investing known as the Life–Cycle Model of Investing and Saving. To gain additional insight into the model and its implications for retirement planning, the SOA's Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks CPRNR recently gathered a panel of leading experts for a round table discussion on the model with the hope of providing a lively forum to exchange ideas.

Description: This is an interview of actuary Cary Franklin who responds to various questions about multiemployer plans with the intent of educating those readers who do not practice in that area.

Description: Feature article describing the next steps people should take after they are finished working full time.

Description: Feature article with interviews of two prominent actuaries in the retirement benefits arena.

Description: Staff Fellow introductory column with discussion of the role of actuaries for defined contribution plans and recently released research on generational differences in retirement planning and savings.