Description: Portability of pension benefits allows an employee to maintain pension benefits as he leaves one company and joins another. Advocates of portability point approvingly to the way Social Security - a portable pension plan - handles employee mobility. In their view, the private pension system would be fairer to participants and close a gap in pension coverage if it had more portability.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that talks about the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. The purposes of the conference were: 1 to develop a national policy on older Americans, 2 to involve older people in helping solve their own problems, and 3 to involve national organizations in the problems of the aging.

Description: This article is about the need for changes in employee benefits and retirement. According to the author we have lost sight of the original goal: the encouragement of privately sponsored employee benefit programs so that workers and their families can live in dignity in retirement.

Description: Actuary readers are familiar with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which was established under ERISA in 1974 to administer the benefits of terminated employee pension plans in the United States and to operate an “insurance” plan intended to protect the benefits of participants in such plans from inadequate funding. This article explains similar programs in Germany and Canada.

Description: Book review: Value of Pensions in Divorce by Marvin Snyder is described as a 'comprehensive treatise' geared to the non-actuary.

Description: This article is about how the new Flexible Education System - FES -will better meet the basic education needs of pension actuaries, particularly consultants.

Description: This article is a fictional summary of a speech by the Secretary for Retirement Incomes at the World Labor Group Conference in the year 2000.

Description: Book review of Employee Benefits, written by Burton T. Beam, Jr., and John J. McFadden. Published in 1985 by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. 486 pages plus bibliography and index.

Description: Article from The Actuary February 1993 Volume 27, No. 2 highlights experience study on mortality from uninsured pension plans

Description: This article highlighs the activities of the SOA Retirement Systems Practice Area including research projects, demographic retirement models, Social Security, and professional development.