Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA Maui II Spring Meeting discuss how well the U.S. and Candian social security systems have met the criteria for an equitable system. An Australian actuary discusses his paper 'The Development of Some Criteria for Equity and National Retirement Income Systems.'

Description: The authors present a ‘theoretical basis for a computerized methodology for estimating biological age - a measure of time to death.’ The authors discuss how they reproduce the human underwriting of a life insurance company using a computerized methodology. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: This special session 72OF of the Dallas Spring Meeting is structured in a guided forum style, much like a town meeting, and led by SOA President Robert L. Brown. It is designed to cover issues vital to the proposed Strategic Plan of the SOA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 72OF

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the investment implications of an aging population including the affect on the national savings rate, economic growth, the dependence on social security and opportunities for the insurance industry. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the critical issues of the financing for the Social Security systems in the U.S. and Canada. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 21, No. 3b.

Description: Participants learn about the demographic, economic, and investment aspects of Social Security systems. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 30PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. The first part of this paper gives background material on the existing Canadian Income Security system, including both government-sponsored systems and private sector supplements. The second part is the report from the Canadian Institute of Actuaries' Task Force on Government-Facilitated Retirement Income Plans published March 2010, which provided actuarial input to the Canadian pension reform debate.

Description: Presented at October 1997 Annual Meeting. This session presents some of the economic issues associated with worldwide old-age crisis, focusing on the management of cash flows in social security systems and how they affect the country's national economy.

Description: This session provides up-to-date information on the education/examination redesign effort. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Chapter 3 analyzes the sources of retirement income security within a system of three interdependent tiers of support: government, employer, and individual. Further, this chapter proposes that these three are part of a larger wealth transfer mechanism including other systems such a s health care and employment insurance. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.