Description: Discusses key issues to improve the retirement system in the U.S. in a primarily defined contribution environment. Focuses on age at retirement, how people retire, and covering risks including disability and longevity risk. Some ideas are feasible within current environment and some require policy change.

Description: The author presents an overview of the Conference and highlights the controversy and discussion about the appropriate ways to measure assets and Liabilities for public sector pension plans. From the Pension Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 68.

Description: Andrew Vaughan served as Chair of the Defined Ambition working group in the United Kingdom. Their report summarized a variety of different approaches for different plan designs and provided insights into different ways to apply defined ambition concepts. The report was presented to Parliament. The article discusses the report and provides insights about its development.

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: Author's view of important issues raised in EBRI 35'th anniversary policy forum and other settings, together with commentary and related public policy recommendations. Goal is to encourage readers to think about the situation today and where it might be going, and to help them identify important issues that need attention.

Description: Anna and Maria report on the “Older Women in the Future: Adapting to Longer Lives” session that they jointly presented with Terry Kozlowski at last year’s World Future Society Conference, and provide brief summaries of selected other sessions they found interesting and/or surprising.

Description: The Link between Retirement and Long-Term Care