Description: This paper discusses retirement planning information and the signals it provides. It focuses on the issue of communicating lump sum versus income benefits. It discusses challenges in communicating income benefits and provides some alternatives.

Description: Presentation slides on a retirement risk survey and eight focus groups conducted in 2013 by Greenwald and Associates.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1969, Volume 3, Issue 8, highlights the Actuaries Club of New York Junior Branch. The program at the June 3 meeting provided an introduction to a new and important topic for all business men. Many actuaries have worked with management science, but to others the field is completely new. Dr. Michael Shegda, Director, Research and Development for the Management Consulting Services Division of Lybrnnd, Ross Bros. & Montgomery spoke on Decision Theory and its Application to the Solution of Business Problems.

Description: Andrew Vaughan served as Chair of the Defined Ambition working group in the United Kingdom. Their report summarized a variety of different approaches for different plan designs and provided insights into different ways to apply defined ambition concepts. The report was presented to Parliament. The article discusses the report and provides insights about its development.

Description: This article discusses the importance of employer retirement plans. Retirement security in the United States comes from Social Security, employer-sponsored benefits, and personal assets including housing and individual savings. The retirement system today is faced with a lot of change, threat and uncertainty. This article deals with the question: How do employers add value by sponsoring plans? It is positioned to open up a dialogue among actuaries and include embedded questions that are italicized throughout this article. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: Provides highlights of the "How Americans Manage their Finances" study and relates results to other SOA research. Researcher for study is at University of Southern California and the SOA is partnering with the Social Security Administration.

Description: In this article, outgoing Society of Actuaries President, Anna M. Rappaport, reviews the Society's accomplishments during the past year and describes its plans for the future.

Description: These are comments by Anna Rappaport and James Clare in response to the proposed amendment to the Society of Actuaries' Constitution to permit public expression of professional opinion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol. 22, Pt. 1, No. 64.

Description: Offers an overview of how family contributes to retirement security. Discusses transfers between generations, high-age issues, divorce, what people expect and caregiving.

Description: Feature article discussing how the SOA Living to 100 Symposium can benefit those interested in social insurance and public finance.