Description: Argues that defined benefit plans do a much better job than 401ks in providing lifetime retirement income and points out other drawbacks of corporations switching plan types.

Description: Enterprise risk management (ERM) needs to be seen in perspective of other management priorities and is not first in the hierarchy of corporate needs.

Description: This article covers a round table discussion about the most significant housing issues affecting retirees.

Description: This article discusses the risks of retirement and how those risks impact attaining a secure retirement in a defined contribution world.

Description: This article discusses the risk-sharing arrangements provided by a number of different types of hybrid pensions, focusing on hybrid designs in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the New Brunswick (Canada) shared risk plan.

Description: This article describes behavioral finance and its relevance in identifying analytics and processes suitable for a control environment for the actuarial aspects of an insurance company.

Description: This article discusses funding flat-benefit pensions and suggests steps to address what will likely be a future underfunded plan.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that talks about the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. The purposes of the conference were: 1 to develop a national policy on older Americans, 2 to involve older people in helping solve their own problems, and 3 to involve national organizations in the problems of the aging.

Description: Brief review of the monograph written on tontines. Outlines support for the monograph's reading and value to the actuarial profession.