Description: Argues that defined benefit plans do a much better job than 401ks in providing lifetime retirement income and points out other drawbacks of corporations switching plan types.

Description: This article discusses the risk-sharing arrangements provided by a number of different types of hybrid pensions, focusing on hybrid designs in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the New Brunswick (Canada) shared risk plan.

Description: This article covers a round table discussion about the most significant housing issues affecting retirees.

Description: This article discusses the risks of retirement and how those risks impact attaining a secure retirement in a defined contribution world.

Description: Enterprise risk management (ERM) needs to be seen in perspective of other management priorities and is not first in the hierarchy of corporate needs.

Description: This article describes behavioral finance and its relevance in identifying analytics and processes suitable for a control environment for the actuarial aspects of an insurance company.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that talks about the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. The purposes of the conference were: 1 to develop a national policy on older Americans, 2 to involve older people in helping solve their own problems, and 3 to involve national organizations in the problems of the aging.

Description: Brief review of the monograph written on tontines. Outlines support for the monograph's reading and value to the actuarial profession.

Description: Review of Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System. The authors found it to be a concise well written report discussing a number of issues facing all pensions in an inflationary economy. Both the title and the dull format in the usual Government Printing Office style would seem to insure this document's instantaneous consignment to dead storage. However, behind the cover of this small pamphlet is a concise, well written report discussing-a-number of the issues facing not only federal pension programs at the present time, but all pensions in an inflationary economy. For example, several of the 11 pages devoted to the main report discuss the implications of static assumptions ignoring inflation as opposed to dynamic assumptions including inflation.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.