Description: This article is a review of the book “Public Employee Pension Funds,” by Robert Tilove, published in 1976 by Columbia University Press. The book concentrates on the major public policy issues affecting plans of state and local governments. A more detailed review of this book will be published in the “Transactions.”

Description: This 1981 article is a discussion of pension reform in Canada, noting that in the last four years there have five government-commissioned studies, resulting in various recommendations covering government and private sector plans. There was consensus on several conclusions - namely that there is too much poverty among the elderly, particularly women, current vesting and portability rules hurt mobile workers, and inflation needs to be addressed.

Description: This article on pensions and tax expenditures discusses the problems in the development of the numbers provided by the Office of Management and Budget. Tax reform proposals that quantify increases in tax revenue that would result from elimination of tax advantages of qualified pension plans are flawed in the author's opinion.

Description: Interview highlighting FINRA research and key points raised with regard to robo-advisors and spending down of pension assets, fraud, and decision making.

Description: Interview with Joseph Goodman, vice president at Compass Lexecon.

Description: Preview of 2017 retirement arena given US administration changes

Description: Recent studies have suggested that teachers would be better off with DC or Cash Balance plans than with DB. Detailed data from CalSTRS support the opposite.

Description: In this article, the author discusses private pension policy recommendations from the first interim report of the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, released in May 1980, noting that it contains several recommendations similar to reforms strongly urged upon actuaries three years ago Record, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 902 by Karen Ferguson, Director of the Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C. The author of this article discusses recommendations, including political views, on topics including mandatory pension coverage, vesting, and survivor protection.

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."