Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing the interest rates and Consumer Price Index figures needed for calculating Canadian pension plan Transfer Values.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing PBGC Annuity Valuation Rates.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing OBRA 87 Midterm Applicable Federal Interest Rates.

Description: This is an Excel workbook containing links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. For each document listed in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

Description: This Excel spreadsheet will perform examples of the tax arbitrage described in Section 4 of the 'Pension Actuary's Guide to Financial Economics' and should only be used in conjunction with the guide.

Description: This is an Excel workbook containing links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. For each document listed in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

Description: This is an Excel workbook that contains detailed reviews of the literature that was searched in the course of a study that explored pre-retirement influences on attitudes and decisions regarding retirement. The research study, conducted by Linda Smith Brothers, reviewed sixty papers written since 1990, and summarized their important points under several categories. The workbook contains a description of the specific categories covered and how they are addressed by each of the sixty papers that were reviewed.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Canadian Government benefits data.

Description: This is an Excel workbook that contains detailed reviews of the literature that was searched in the course of a study that explored pre-retirement influences on attitudes and decisions regarding retirement. The research study, conducted by Linda Smith Brothers, reviewed sixty papers written since 1990, and summarized their important points under several categories. The workbook contains a description of the specific categories covered and how they are addressed by each of the sixty papers that were reviewed.