Description: The article explores options for defined-benefit retirement plan sponsors to transfer pension risk, focusing on recent trends in the United Kingdom.

Description: Statistics about funded status for AFTRA multiemployer pension plan

Description: A plain-language, high-level explanation of employer withdrawal liability issues, including how they grew to be large and barriers to their collection.

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: Statistics about the National Hockey League Players’ Retirement Benefit Plan and its funded status.

Description: Statistics about the Screen Actors Guild - Producers Pension Plan and its funded status.

Description: Paper examines some of the current difficulties faced by defined benefit plans, and poses some solutions. From The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Monograph, M-RS05-1.

Description: Statistics about the National Football League Players’ Pension Plan and its funded status.

Description: This paper presents a multi-state stochastic model for analyzing continuing care retirement community CCRC populations. The model considers CCRCs with a number of independent living units and a skilled nursing facility. Residents may transfer temporarily or permanently to this facility. It is assumed that units vacated by deaths, withdrawals or permanent transfers are immediately occupied by new residents. Transfers are modeled using a time-homogeneous Markov process. The paper provides some probabilistic results and some numerical results obtained using this model. Some important generalizations of the model are also briefly discussed.

Description: Book review of The Fundamentals of Pension Mathematics by Barnet E. Barin. Mr. Griffin supports the text as a valuable contribution in particular his analysis of gains/losses by source during the transition to utilizing computers for pension valuation.