Description: An analysis of financial stress experienced by multiemployer pension plans across the period from 1999 to 2015, using plan metrics calculated from 5500 data.

Description: This article solicits comments on a proposal for a periodic survey to obtain needed data on retirement, health, and economics among retirement-age persons sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.

Description: This article provides comments about questions raised and discussed in the March and May 1981 issues of The Actuary regarding the relative merits of a U.S. Government Actuary post.

Description: Guidelines and rules for submitting articles to the International Section Council's Country Feature Article Competition.

Description: Find information about the feature article competition.

Description: The article notes that the Society of Actuaries has been invited as one of four new members on the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics JAHCOGS, and tells Society members “if you use government statistics - if you would like data to be available to you before they are outdated - if you have doubts about the quality or accuracy of data and/or analyses - if you are concerned about costs to industry and taxpayers of information gathering - if you have ideas on how to improve any phase of government statistics - here is your chance to speak out.”

Description: This month’s global emerging risk is the fall in value of the U.S. dollar. The SOA’s 2010 Emerging Risks Survey found that 49 percent of corporate risk managers identify the fall in value of the U.S. dollar as the top emerging risk. This is a growing concern because of the brewing economic storms that could collide to have a big impact on the value of the U.S. dollar. From the Bubble Risk Bulletin – March 2011.

Description: The author discusses health care practices in Japan and how the US could successfully adopt some of them.

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