Description: List of References. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 3 analyzes the sources of retirement income security within a system of three interdependent tiers of support: government, employer, and individual. Further, this chapter proposes that these three are part of a larger wealth transfer mechanism including other systems such a s health care and employment insurance. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: This paper attempts to distill from these various models a practical application of the key principles for reform.

Description: This session discusses two recent SOA research initiatives called FARM I and FARM II. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Description: This paper examines the following three questions by reviewing literature that identifies and evaluates the tradeoffs among annuitization and self-managed drawdown strategies: 1. How DO Retirees Draw Down their Financial Savings? 2. How COULD Retirees Draw Down their Financial Savings? 3. How SHOULD Retirees Draw Down their Financial Savings?

Description: The paper presents arguments to show that a fully funded social security scheme is no more secure economically than a pay as you go scheme....that is, for real retirement income security the funding mechanism is irrelevant. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.

Description: This paper investigates the accuracy of loss reserves by comparing some reserves with the actual results five years hence. The ultimate purpose was to provide an estimate of the amount of variability which cannot be explained by listed factors. The resulting amount of variability gives an indication of the amount required for a provision for adverse deviation. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1

Description: Full version of Small Talk Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 15.

Description: Chapter 6 examines the freezing of the Year's Basic Exemption YBE at $3500. While this reform seems small and is subtle, the importance of this change is discussed in detail. It is shown that this change saves the system little money but threatens the progressivity of the retirement income benefit within C/QPP. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: In this session 350F of the New York Annual Meeting the panel examines, in Q&A format, issues related to the new education system scheduled to take effect in the year 2000. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.c