Description: Read the May 2020 issue of Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Support excel file for Variable Uninsured (Value) Life Annuities.

Description: View the Income Optimization Objective Model.

Description: This session covers Pension actuaries who are becoming more involved in the administration of defined-benefit pension plans. Along with this work comes special challenges that are different from those seen in more traditional pension actuarial work. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 93PD

Description: This session discusses current trends in retirement decision making, retirement incentives, the impact of conditions in the local and national economy on a person's decision to retire. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session

Description: This presentation discusses the income taxes and excise taxes that may apply to individuals receiving benefits from qualified pension plans. Also discussed are methods of deferring taxes and nonqualified plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussion will review rulings, regulations and announcements which have been issued in the last year. This is intended to be an overview and not a detailed analysis. Focus is on pension plans.

Description: This article is the first of two parts - the second part published in the December, 1981 issue of The Actuary - and provides a summary of Canada’s National Pension Conference. The author of this article, a participant at the conference, notes that the prevailing view in Canada is that the government and employer, not the employee, jointly share the responsibility of providing financial security in old age.

Description: Retirement benefits have become a seamless worldwide web. Thus actuaries who go to war in the international arena are painfully aware of the impact of U.S. technology on the battlefield. The debut of that awesome awful weapon, ERISA, and all its derivatives has persuaded many countries to adopt counterparts.

Description: Risk-shared plan designs have been gaining significant popularity with employers and members in response to the shortcomings of traditional defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans. The presenters will explore risk-shared plan design innovations recently implemented in Canada to better balance the competing needs of members and employers, including the growing trend toward pension plan consolidation.