Description: This article focuses on the family as part of the lifetime security safety net. It looks at several issues, research and seniors' expectations.

Description: This essay explores the role that the emerging defined contribution retirement system may be playing in the growth of wealth inequality in the United States. The current system leaves many Americans with little or no retirement savings. Those with higher accumulation levels appear to invest proportionally more in equities, which may have an exponential effect of balances over long time periods. The author hypothesizes that willingness to take investment risk involves the relationship between the amount an investor has accumulated and what she/he needs in order to cover basic costs of living. This is one reason that investors with greater accumulation levels may be able to earn higher rates of return. The essay concludes by suggesting that the U.S. defined contribution system should include all workers and provide additional fiduciary guidance. Examples reforms, both in the U.S. and other countries, are provided.

Description: Argues that most retirees face multiple financial risks that need to be considered simultaneously so that limited resources can be applied in a manner that is rational and satisfying. A specific procedure for developing such an individualized risk strategy is described.

Description: This paper uses stochastic simulation technology to present a risk metric for defined benefit pension plans that provides improved measures of the plan's solvency and provides a tool for pension plan managers to determine the value of risk mitigation activities. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: The report studies the impact of unemployment and underemployment on insurance business, introducing concepts, theoretical background, and patterns of both.

Description: Ways for management to measure, integrate and use Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) information to analyze, compare, discuss, and monitor risks such that appropriate risk management decisions can be made.

Description: Discussant comments for “Requirements to Make the Housing Asset a Viable Retirement Asset.” This paper examines the characteristics of an ideal product and the type of institution that would be well positioned to offer the ideal product which would allow a housing asset to be a viable retirement asset. Discussant provides comments from a US perspective.

Description: Introduction and table of contents of essay collection.

Description: Summary sheet of the report, Tale of Two Pension Plans: Measuring Pension Plan Risk From an Economic Capital Perspective.

Description: Read the June 2019 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.