Description: The author discusses and provides an example of how some companies’ enterprise risk management (ERM) programs are designed and implemented in ways that can unwittingly weaken the organization.

Description: Recently completed research projects from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A report on the findings a committee established by the government of Quebec to evaluate the respective roles of public and private pension plans in providing financial security for the elderly.

Description: A review of the book Public and Private Pensions in Canada: An Economic Analysis by J. E. Pesando and S. A. Rea, Jr.

Description: A review of the last 50 years, concluding that the insurance industry in Canada has been slow to react to consumers' shift in focus from long-term security to rate of return.

Description: This article is a fictional summary of a speech by the Secretary for Retirement Incomes at the World Labor Group Conference in the year 2000.

Description: Anna Rappaport's review of the book, Cyberbug, by Michael Cowell The story follows an imaginary actuary and his family into the 21st century and tells how the dramatic changes around them alter their lives.

Description: A comparison of Social Security benefits, for a hypothetical new entrant to the program, between the 1972 Social Security Act and the 1977 Social Security Act.

Description: A review of the address of Rajendra P. Sharma F.S.A. 1979 of Philadelphia in July 1980 to the Actuarial Society of India in Bombay on the topic of the history of private pension plans in the United States.

Description: Three noted actuaries who practice in the retirement systems area provide their prognosis of the future of pensions.