Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications on a variety of topics.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that investigates the extent of increasing the Social Security full retirement age in order to reduce the program’s funding deficit.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that relates to determining the next standards applicable for pension plan valuation in Canada, depending upon further decisions to be made by the Actuarial Standard Board-Conseil des norms actuarielles.

Description: Calculating the retirement benefits under a defined contribution pension plan requires information about lifetime salary profiles along with the density of contribution. Most often, in developing countries, a simple income profile is assumed with no regard to actual income profiles. One commonly used rule is to assume a x percent growth in income throughout the working lives of affiliates. This is the abstract of a paper that investigates if the reality corresponds to such assumptions.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that addresses the question of how an employer can offer phased retirement in such a way that, indeed, employees work longer before fully retiring.