Description: This discussion on retirement plans for the self-employed reviews encouragement given to plans through tax relief resulting in their more widespread use in Canada and Great Britain as well as the outlook for similar legislation in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957, Vol. 9, No. 25.

Description: Revised pages for the RP-2000 Mortality Tables Report dated April 2000.

Description: Chapter 11 from the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. PIMS is a microsimulation model that produces a distribution of PBGC’s exposure over a defined time interval. This chapter describes the major components of PIMS, the data types in PIMS, the PIMS simulation process, simulation activities, and current output.

Description: Chapter 9 of the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. This chapter describes SSAIM, which is a policy simulation model of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Social Security programs.

Description: A discussion of where insurance companies and their products fit in the retirement asset market and trends over the past few decades. Some historical data on the insurance companies' share of retirement assets is included.

Description: Article E&E Development by Lauer in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: Read the October 2018 issue of Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Hear from the Chairperson on themes in the October Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section.

Description: The title for this session is a little ambiguous. The panelists do not say much about the ins and outs of how to tax retirement income plans. Rather, they talk about why tax policy works as it does and how it relates to pension policy. It becomes evident from the discussion that pension policy and tax policy are hard to separate. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented a discussion on the integration of pension plans with Social Security. The discussion included: Current integration requirements - what is and what might be, problems with the current rules - need for change, or not the recent proposal by Congress to redesign integration rules, practitioners' proposals to revise integration rules - in light of recent activity in Congress, and the next steps - better or worse?