Description: This paper examines some specific issues where cash balance plans don't fit the traditional mold, and what regulatory changes would provide the best fit for cash balance plans. From Cash Balance Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-3.

Description: This paper concentrates on who carries what risks if the national stocks-for-retirement cycle is fundamentally flawed and can fail a millions of baby-boomers grow older. From Cash Balance Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-3.

Description: This paper looks at different ways to think about the economic relationships within the family and relate them to various ways of providing for retirement security within a Social Security and employer framework.

Description: This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of a defined benefit plan option for phased retirees.

Description: This paper examines concepts from both financial economic and actuarial science as applied to defined benefit schemes using a simple discounted cash-flow framework as a reference point. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: This paper deals with the workplace and the financial security issues related to the employer-employee relationship. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities - The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: Graphs mortality experience over the prior 15 years, show possible trends over the prior 80 years, discusses the impact on liabilities and funding of the New York public retirement system based on projections of life expectancy, and discusses the possible factors that have affected mortality.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. This paper adapts New Zealand Maori and non-Maori population mortality data to reflect differences in socio-economic status. This adapted data is used as a basis to explore the implications of differential mortality in assessing the equity of increase in the pension age of eligibility.

Description: Informal discussion 2017 LT100 transcript for Session 1C: Impact of Aging: Biggest Current Policy Challenges from the U.K./U.S./Canada as a Result of Aging?