Description: The purpose of this delightful and stimulating book is the identification of new products for the marketplace. Anyone interested in predicting the future should read it. The book surveys the batting average of futurists, which IS amazingly low. About 20 years ago, Herman Kahn predicted 100 changes that would occur by the end of the century.

Description: This article talks about the future of Canada/Québec Pension Plans C/QPP and summarizes the Report of the Task Force on Social Security Financing. This reports compares the Canadian system to seven other social insurance systems and suggest four possible changes to the C/QPP that would reduce costs.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 37, Number 7 - September 2003

Description: This article discusses what pensions will be like in Canada in the year 2031 under both the Canadian social security system and with private pension plans. The author concludes that coverage under private plans should be expanded if mandatory plans are to be avoided and there will need to be a cutback in certain features of the C/QPP.

Description: An article discussing Canadian Medicare as a guide for American Healthcare reform.

Description: Article from The Actuary November 1992 – Volume 26, No. 9 is about changes in the actuarial profession

Description: This article is speculation about the state of North America in the year 2020 given demographic, racial, social and technological changes that are occurring in society.

Description: In recent months, many significant developments in Canada have affected employee benefits, particularly pensions. Other Canadian issues discussed in this article are unemployment insurance and taxation of pensions.

Description: This article is the second of two parts the first published in the September, 1981 issue of The Actuary and provides a summary of the discussions which took place at Canada’s National Pension Conference. Topics discussed by delegates included the appropriate roles of both public and private sector pension plans in Canada.

Description: This article is the first of two parts - the second part published in the December, 1981 issue of The Actuary - and provides a summary of Canada’s National Pension Conference. The author of this article, a participant at the conference, notes that the prevailing view in Canada is that the government and employer, not the employee, jointly share the responsibility of providing financial security in old age.