Description: In this article, the editor previews the issue and thanks the outgoing communications committee members. From the Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: SOA surveys public attitudes about post-retirement risk and its management every two years. This is 7th survey. Article provides highlights of 2013 survey, comments on longer term findings, and information about how to use results. Results are useful for those managing pension plans, developing products, helping individuals and also for policymakers. This issues are particularly important in situations where there are no defined benefit plans.

Description: In this article the editor previews the issue.

Description: This is an introduction to the SOA call for essays around risk strategies pertaining to the diverse risks found in retirement. We are pleased that these essays can be included in this issue of Pension Section News, along with a short interview with each author.

Description: Read the June 2017 issue of Pension Section News published by the Pension Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article provides a Retirement 20/20 update.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, highlights a book by John Turner on international perspectives of individual accounts. In clear and concise language, Turner, a senior policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute, explores the first-hand experience of other countries that have implemented, either partially or in full, aspects of social security reform that have been proposed for the U.S. system.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, discusses outcome-oriented approach to defined benefit investing. Instead of focusing on market indices, the focus is on achieving a specific real-world outcome for the defined benefit plan.

Description: This article discusses how much should defined-benefit pension plan assets be and should actuaries decide the answer to this question?

Description: Information on Unusual Provisions in Cash Balance Plans Needed by William Torrie and Thomas P. Edwalds from Pension Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 39.