Description: Paper presents two alternative practices that could promote fuller recognition of a plan’s investment risks and that take into account the long-term nature of the benefit promises of maturing retirement systems.

Description: Authors’ response to Ryan Lab Asset Management’s Comments on their paper which examines the degree to which certain actuarial methods satisfy public pension plan funding objectives.

Description: Comments from Eric Friedman on “The Debate over Applying FE Principles to the Funding on Public Pension Plans: A Transition Proposal and Other Ideas,” by Thomas Lowman

Description: The abstract for paper Actuarial Consideration in Establishing Gradual Retirement Pension Plans.

Description: This paper offers ideas on new retirement plan designs that share investment risk or longevity risk, or both, between employers and employees.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. New pension funding rules can result in highly volatile contribution requirements. Managing the options available can help sponsors realize the funding pattern they desire. 2 case studies are presented.

Description: This paper examines the impact on retirement goals and savings behavior by participants in financial education seminars offered by TIAA-CREF .

Description: List of Tables. From Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-2.

Description: This article notes that actuaries can play a crucial role in assisting the couple, the attorney's and the human resources professional in alleviating headaches spawned by QDROs and provides simple steps to follow to minimize complexity, thereby saving legal and consulting fees for the divorcing couple and easing their stress.

Description: This article analyzes and confirms the circumstances where a change in the mortality assumption does and does not have a significant impact on pension valuations.