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  • Beware the Flaw of Averages: Hidden Longevity Diversity can Materially Change Decision-making
    be applied to the use of so-called “standard” mortality tables. Sharpening up these blunt estimates by ... annuities being no exception. Several insurers in the U.S. pension risk transfer market have started using ...

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    • Date: Dec 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Demography; Pensions & Retirement
  • The Withdrawal Liability Interest Rate Puzzle
    significant events occurred that affected actuaries: Rubik’s Cube was officially introduced and continues to be ... current world record for a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube (as of the article’s writing, it is 3.47 seconds[1]). But ...

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    • Authors: Hal Tepfer
    • Date: Mar 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Retirement Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Multi-employer plans
  • Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality - FARM - Phase II
    Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality - FARM - Phase II This paper analyzes which of the factors that ... retirement mortality determined in Phase I of the FARM project should be added to the existing mortality studies ...

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    • Authors: Victor Modugno
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Pensions & Retirement
  • The Financial Reporter
    2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter financial reporting;corporate ... standards=IAS;international financial reporting standards=IFRS;annuity valuation;defined benefit plans;pension accounting;pension ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Frank Grossman, William Sayre, Francis de Regnaucourt, Karen Rudolph, Henry Siegel, R Thomas Herget, R Inglis
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Pensions & Retirement
  • Committee Reports On Experience Study
    Committee Reports On Experience Study Article from The Actuary February 1993 Volume 27, No. 2 ... experience study on mortality from uninsured pension plans Mortality rates=Mortality tables=Death rates ...

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    • Authors: Edwin Hustead
    • Date: Feb 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Pensions & Retirement
  • Social Security Changes for 2024
    Public Interest, October 2023 Every October, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) announces certain ... Cost-of-Living Benefit Increase Since 1984, Social Security's COLAs have been based on the third-quarter-to-third-quarter ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Schobel
    • Date: Oct 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: In The Public Interest
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans; Social Insurance; Social Insurance>Social Security
  • In the Beginning... A Column Devoted to Tax Basics
    Michael L. Hadley TAXING TIMES, October 2023 Author’s Note: This article is an updated version of an article ... 457(b) plan, or individual retirement account or annuity (IRA), all of which receive special tax treatment ...

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    • Authors: Michael L Hadley
    • Date: Oct 2023
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Defined contribution and 401k plans; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation; Pensions & Retirement>Plan design; Public Policy; Public Policy; Pensions & Retirement>Pension risk transfer
  • Trading Places: Life and Pension actuaries find common ground to express funding concepts
    Trading Places: Life and Pension actuaries find common ground to express funding concepts ... that an insurer would use Accounting standards;Annuity valuation;defined benefit plans;financial reporting;Pension ...

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    • Authors: R Thomas Herget, R Inglis
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: Communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Pensions & Retirement
  • The Actuary Vol. 23, No. 11 CCRC Research Chosen
    Committee on HIV Research - “U.S. General Population Projected AIDS Mortality Rates” - and the Task Force ... most recent and favorable mortality data in setting rates, but future mortality improvements were a normal ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Dec 1989
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement
  • Why Glide Paths Should Evolve
    gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain ... origins in aviation. A glide path is an aircraft’s evolution in altitude from flying to landing. So, ...

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    • Authors: Dimitry D Mindlin
    • Date: Jun 2022
    • Competency: Professional Values; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset allocation; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Portfolio management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Pension finance; Pensions & Retirement>Pension investments & asset liability management
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