Description: The author shares the story of his actuarial career and provides insight into the development of retirement today and the past and future of the pension actuary.

Description: Response to David Kausch’s comments on the paper.

Description: A discussion of where insurance companies and their products fit in the retirement asset market and trends over the past few decades. Some historical data on the insurance companies' share of retirement assets is included.

Description: This article discusses some of the ideas of pension finance, how to present such information, and how it was presented to the New York City Retirement Systems (NYCRS) in a way that made it available to other interested parties, including the public.

Description: This presentation made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the actuary as the architect in the pension planning field which includes the following tasks: designs the plan, determines its cost, and sees to it that it is put into operation effectively.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the current developments on the Unisex rating issue including judicial, statutory, political, regulatory and the future outlook. It also looks at the blending approaches to represent unisex factors and the impact of the Norris decision on TIAA-CREF.

Description: Comments on Robert North’s paper, a real case study of disclosing MVL in a public employee retirement system.

Description: This sessions from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the pension actuary's role in the 'top fifty' process, the PBGC's annual list of those companies with the largest underfunding for guaranteed benefits. It also covers FAS87 and the 10k filing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No, 3a.

Description: A response to the comments on the paper.