Description: This guide is a compilation of references providing an overview of the pension environment in Canada. It is designed to assist a non-pension practitioner or an actuary from outside of Canada who wants to learn about the Canadian Pension System.

Description: This study note will review commutation functions and how they are used to calculate the values, based on simple deterministic assumption, of a variety of simple annuity and insurance functions.

Description: Case Study for Fall 2009 Exam AFE.

Description: This overview study note for the Society of Actuaries Spring 2012 Financial Economic Theory and Engineering [FETE] exam is intended to provide candidates with an approach for organizing the course of reading for studying the various sections of the course.

Description: This is an EA1 study note will present some common examples of converting benefits for normal, early and late retirement. It will also analyze how changes in a plan's actuarial equivalence assumption can affect the magnitude of the converted benefits.

Description: Cast study for Spring 2009 Retirement Benefits, U.S.

Description: Study note for EA,2A exam, presents the factors to consider in setting demographic and economic assumptions used in measuring pension obligations. While its primary focus is on the general process of setting such actuarial assumptions, it also covers some of the specifics of assumption-setting relevant to the actuarial valuations used for pension funding in the United States.

Description: This teaching session focuses on the 1977 Social Security benefit calculations

Description: Spring 2009 CSP Retirement Benefit case study

Description: This is the November 2007 Exam DP-RU which covers retirement benefits from the Design and Pricing perspective for the United States.