Description: The Retirement Section and Retirement Section Research Committee are pleased to make available a research report examining academic and practitioner research on low interest rates in the United States.

Description: This report provides key findings from the 2005 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey related to Americans' awareness of retirement risk, how their awareness has changed since the previous study performed in 2003, and how it affects the management of their finances.

Description: This is the report on the findings of the January 2002 retirement risk survey. The purpose of the study was to evaluate American's awareness of possible financial risks and how this awareness impacts the management of their finances with respect to retirement.

Description: Discussion of types and amounts of benefits continued on retired employees and their dependents, the cost of continuance of pensioner benefits under the group plan and methods of financing benefits during active employment.

Description: This discussion examines miscellaneous topics. Topics include actuarial training, final salary pension plans and hospitalization and surgical insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: The project goals are: • Illustrate an analytical framework using stochastic forecasts and efficient frontiers for hypothetical retirees, for determining retirement income generators (RIGs) that could be offered in a DC retirement plan. • Determine the RIGS or combination of RIGs that could be considered optimal according to specified criteria. • Encourage plan participants, plan sponsors, and advisors to adopt a portfolio approach to developing retirement income strategies.

Description: In this paper, the authors assess the value of a GSA-type annuity within a retiree's portfolio.

Description: This fact sheet summarizes the results of a survey analyzing retirees’ and pre-retirees’ concerns on retirement. It also reveals how these groups have prepared or are preparing to face risks and offers personal risk management strategies and tips.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute is pleased to make available a report that aims to understand the cause of low annuity demand through the angle of mortality model uncertainty.