Description: Recent meetings on financial economics have promoted the idea of an all bond asset allocation. Financial economics calls us to take a corporate-centric, rather than plan-centric approach to pension asset allocation selection. However, we can also learn about the risk of investing in stocks by using some traditional actuarial tools, like measuring the "probability of ruin".

Description: Twice a year the Intersector Group meets with representatives of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBBGC) to dialogue with them on regulatory and other issues affecting pension practice. Attending from Intersector Group: Don Fuerst, Eli Greenblum, Judy Miller, John Moore, Heidi Rackley, Maria Sarli, Don Segal, Larry Sher. David Goldfarb, Academy staff member supporting the Intersector Group, also attended.

Description: August 2012 issue of (RL) Asset/Liability Watch

Description: September issue of RL Asset Liability Watch, September 2012

Description: View 2014 Asset Watch

Description: Resource for Pension Section members

Description: RL Bond Market Watch, October 2013 Resource for Pension Section members.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing the interest rates and Consumer Price Index figures needed for calculating Canadian pension plan Transfer Values.