Description: This paper explores the context for retirement in the future, sets forth alternative scenarios for retirement and considers the public policy, individual, and family implications of these scenarios.

Description: This paper proposes a mandatory universal pension system MUPS which would be a system of fully portable IRA accounts piggy-backed on to existing Social Security withholding.

Description: The adoption of FAS 158 forces sponsors of post-employment health benefit plans to consider how to manage the volatility that changes in medical care inflation create in the other postemployment benefits (OPEB) liability. By choosing carefully how the nominal discount rate used for the liability is decomposed into real rates and inflation, I illustrate that the true exposure to an OPEB plan is to the spread of medical care inflation above (or below) the overall inflation rate. The implication is that an effective immunization strategy exists that can eliminate most of the volatility in the OPEB account.

Description: Article in the Expanding Horizons Newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that announces the winners of the 2002 Halmstad Prize.

Description: A short blurb in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that talks about the meeting minutes from the E&R section council meetings. ARC and Spring meetings were discussed.

Description: A short note in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, issue 26, published in April 2003 that introduces Sheree Baker, new to the research area, to the E&R section.

Description: The University of Montreal will be the host of the 41st Actuarial Research Conference of the SOA, August 10–12, 2006, in Montreal, Canada. The annual ARC provides an opportunity for academics and practitioners to meet and discuss actuarial problems and their solutions.

Description: This article is an announcement for nominations for the 2007 Halmstad Prize. A description of the prize is given. From Expanding Horizons, April 2007.

Description: This article presents an introduction and overview of the R language. From Expanding Horizons, April 2007.

Description: This article provides the reader with highlights from the International Actuarial Association Health Section Colloquium held in Cape Town in 2007. From Expanding Horizons, September 2007, Issue No. 37.