Description: Financial illiteracy has been identified as a major obstacle to effective retirement planning for Americans. Anna Rappaport’s article provides actuaries with helpful ideas about ways to make the public more aware of the increasing need for financial literacy and some of the resources currently available to help individuals.

Description: Book Review Pension Fund Excellence—Creating Value for Stakeholders by K.P. Ambachtsteere & D.D. Ezra Reviewed by Barnet N. Berin from Pension Section News, November 1998, Issue No. 38.