Description: Explains the method used to calculate Liquidity Cost Score and Price Impact Score. Describes the rationale for and applications of these methods.

Description: This essay talks about gender differences that affect retirement security and reviews lessons from SOA research. It provides advice for women including traps to avoid. Issues consider include differences in life spans, widowhood, divorce, differences in care patterns and caregiving.

Description: The Pension Forum is for the publication of papers on pension-related topics and discussions of those papers. It is published on an ad hoc basis by the Pension Section of the Society of Actuaries, and delivered to Pension Section members free of charge.

Description: Drivers for mortality are apparently linked to socio-economic differentials within different societal groups. Actuaries are not the only profession interested in unravelling the mystery of why different groups within society experience such different mortality rates. The author gives examples from occupational pension plans in Canada, the UK and Germany.

Description: Anna Rappaport provides her usual highly-stimulating and thought-provoking summaries of ideas that she has heard and generated during some of her most recent expeditions to various Conferences, Meetings, Roundtables, Symposia and Retreats that deal with a wide variety of retirement and old age security related issues.

Description: Interview with Sudipto Banerjee

Description: Profile of the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: This research report summarizes current research on retirement adequacy and compares different measures.

Description: Part 4 presents an alternate approach to obtaining the fair value of the public sector employer’s pension benefit liability.

Description: Paper offers a model retirement plan that addresses the needs of retirees, financial institutions, and intermediaries.