Description: On June 26, 2007, the U.S. Conference Board sponsored a webcast on phased retirement. There were several interesting aspects of the webcast and ensuing discussion including: 1. Polling results, 2. Case studies about how employers have implied phased retirement programs, including examples of how employees are moved from job to job as they entered phased retirement, and 3. Participation by a number of employers indicating their interest in the topic. This article focuses on the first two of these three elements.

Description: This is a presentation by Society of Actuaries President, Anna M. Rappaport, at the 1998 Actuarial Research Conference. It is about the challenges facing actuaries and what the SOA is doing to help. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1999 Vol. 1.

Description: A book review of Your Life ... Well Spent by Russ Crosson. The book is a great resource for actuaries and others. It explores questions such as: Why do we work? What is the point of earning money? What should we do with the money we earn?

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for Concurrent Session 2A: Drivers of Future Mortality for the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Members of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Solvency Committee have put together an acronym reference chart. This handy guide can be folded up to fit in your wallet and quickly reviewed so you can fearlessly enter an elevator.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting addresses issues facing mutual companies concerning the ability to ensure profitable growth. Various strategies discussed include surplus notes, demutualization, merger, and sale/acquisition of blocks of business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session presents the approaches of a stock and a mutual company to surplus management, and the application of recent research in risk theory to surplus management.

Description: Article is about what companies are looking for in an actuary

Description: Actuary readers are familiar with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which was established under ERISA in 1974 to administer the benefits of terminated employee pension plans in the United States and to operate an “insurance” plan intended to protect the benefits of participants in such plans from inadequate funding. This article explains similar programs in Germany and Canada.

Description: Feature article with the one main goal of trying to help actuaries to better see some of the changes that will be needed by their organizations during the coming decade. The author urges us to look for new ways to apply the old rules.