Description: Review of ideas and concepts presented at the Living to 100 symposium. The ideas include projections of future longevity, medical breakthroughs that may extend longevity and the potential benefits from slowing the aging process.

Description: overview of changes in retirement plans and economic demands for the baby boom generation

Description: Article from the Pension Section News, June 2000, on the simple logic of health care inflation. This article is reprinted with permission and ran in the April 2000 issue of Health Section News.

Description: Discusses the Canadian Institute of Actuaries report on whether the normal retirement age in Canadian social security programs and private programs should be increased and possible impacts.

Description: Top down approach to retirement results in wasting the human capital of retirees. We should concentrate, instead on allowing our clients to use their human capital to the fullest extent possible, and structure retirement products around that premise.

Description: Builds on the 2014 Pension Research Council meeting and paper authored by myself and Andrew Peterson, plus other meeting content to focus on alternative views for the future of the pension system.

Description: The impact of bond default risk on retirement benefit obligations describes how the probability default on a bond is similar to the probability of death for an annuitant. Bonds are used to cash flow match retirement obligations cash flows to funding from bond. Just as the probability of non-payment happens on the liability side, we can do the same with selected bonds. The end result may be an adjustment to the discount rates used.

Description: Overview of areas of the Living to 100 content of particularly interest to pension actuaries. Two areas of emphasis are business implications and human resource implications including retirement ages. Draws on panels and papers.

Description: This essay focuses on elements of success in a system linked to employment.

Description: Provides highlights of the "How Americans Manage their Finances" study and relates results to other SOA research. Researcher for study is at University of Southern California and the SOA is partnering with the Social Security Administration.