Description: This is a review if the book, 'The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years' by Steven Sass. The book is about the history of pension plans before the enactment of ERISA. Unlike texts about recent and current pension developments, this book will not be outdated by ongoing pension activity.

Description: This is a summary of 1972 discussions about: 1. the past and future dynamics of North American retirement systems, 2. alternatives for pension legislation, and 3. actuarial principles and practices for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 2D, No. 68.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the following issues: What are the retirement needs of a population?, what are suitable methods of providing social insurance, private pensions,and savings?, what are the political, economic, and sociological implications of various solutions?, and what perspective on this problem does Canadian experience provide.

Description: This article is a fictional summary of a speech by the Secretary for Retirement Incomes at the World Labor Group Conference in the year 2000.