Description: This article summarizes a series of surveys that explore how the public perceives retirement risks and manages related financial resources. It also provides examples of conflicting perceptions and behavior related to retirement and how retirees manage assets in retirement.

Description: This paper describes a method of interest allocation which relies on a computerized model of invested assets. Characteristics of this method, known as the investment generation model method, are discussed in relation to other allocation methods in current use and in relation to desirable criteria of interest allocation given in this paper. The paper concludes by identifying important management benefits associated with this method of allocation. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: This paper focuses on when and how we retire.

Description: The work of the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks—including focus groups and Risks and Process of Retirement Surveys—offers important insights into when, how and why people retire.

Description: A supplemental report conducted in 2009 to contrast results of the 2008 study, 'Will Retirement Assets Last a Lifetime'? It discusses retirees confidence in having sufficient assets to fully fund their retirement, their willingness to take risk, efforts to control spending and their use of financial advisers.

Description: The abstract for a paper that focuses on when and how we retire.