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: This article provides a summary of the Actuarial Standards Board work and hearing evaluating whether a new ASOP is needed for public sector pension plans.

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: 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.

Description: Column that provides an overview of section activities

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: This article is a summary of the roundtable discussion with a group of panelists on how to appropriately measure public pension plan liabilities. The crux of the debate is whether public pension plans should disclose a market value of liability - MVL - or whether current disclosures are adequate.

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: Introduction to 2012 Pension Forum covering Retirement 20/20 call for models papers. These papers outline specific ideas and designs for new retirement systems.

Description: Column that provides an overview of Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks call for essays on Financial Wellness.