Description: This report provides key findings from the 2005 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey related to issues of particular importance to women. The report also focuses on differences and similarities in the retirement risks faced by men and women.

Description: Summary of call for essays on three subjects: Defined Contribution Plan Risk Management Strategies, Decumulation in Retirement and Long Term Care Financing.

Description: Retirement Symposium overview. A session by session synopsis of the wide ranging topics presented.

Description: This research summarizes interviews of individuals 85+ years old, looking at how habits and behaviors from earlier in life affect the later years of retirement.

Description: A research project defining relevant and actionable consumer segments among middle-income/mid-level net worth households.

Description: This is a report examining the decision process to retire and views on managing assets after retirement. The study was designed specifically to examine those who were not forced to retire due to ill health or disability.

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 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 article focuses on retirement decisions, phased retirement and related policy issues, calling for actuaries to take on leadership roles in retirement public discussion.