Description: This article is about papers submitted in response to a Retirement 20/20 call for submission of papers about Tier II retirement systems, i.e. those that are employer-provided retirement benefits that fit between social insurance and private savings.

Description: Feature article discussing the SOA’s Retirement 20/20 initiative.

Description: Andy provides a succinct summary of activities that he, the council and many other engaged parties have undertaken this past year with regard to the now firmly established Retirement 20/20 initiative, including links to working drafts of papers submitted and presentations made at June’s Retirement 20/20: New Designs for a New Century conference held in Washington, D.C.

Description: Overview of recent research and CPD sessions of interest to pension actuaries

Description: Kevin Binder, chair of the Pension Section Research Team, shares a summary of two recently completed projects that are now posted on the SOA website.The first topic is on the drawing down of retirement savings and the second is on the valuation of pension plan embedded options. From Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: Detailed information about a Measurement Framework to evaluate existing designs and to illustrate how certain designs do or do not meet the fundamentals and where tradeoffs lie.

Description: Join the SOA Research Institute for a webcast discussing a Deloitte Consulting research study that explored "What Retirement Plan Features do Employees Really Want?" The purpose of the study was to gain insights into the features of retirement plans that are important to employees and where they may make tradeoffs for the features they find most important. This report provides important observations for employers and other retirement stakeholders as they assess retirement plans.