Description: Chairperson's corner for January 2020 In the Public Interest.

Description: Section chairperson's column describing section membership benefits.

Description: This article focuses on personal experiences and observations, what risk managers say about emerging risks, how climate and emerging risks fit into the bigger retirement picture for the individual, and how they affect actuaries and plan sponsors. During the last few years, there has been an increasing concern about the impact of emerging risks and about concerns about them. Climate change is a top emerging risk. At the end of 2022, climate change was highlighted in the news as a major concern. At the 2022 annual meeting of the SOA, it was clear that actuaries accepted the importance of climate change and the need to think about how it affected many areas of practice. It is however clear that disruption can also come from other emerging risks. This article focuses on the broader picture of emerging risks but with more detail about climate change. It looks at the issues through SOA research, personal experience and other data to provide a big picture insight into these risks and retirement security.

Description: This article presents highlights from a Roundtable Discussion held at the 2008 Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance - NASI. Some issues discussed are the results of the SOA 2007 Survey on the Risks and Process of Retirement, the phases of retirement and the changes during retirement as a function of changing health and capability, age, changing family status and employment status.

Description: This article highlights the activities of the SOA and its newest retirement issues report, 'The Phases of Retirement and Planning for the Unexpected.' It describes the three separate phases or stages of retirement.

Description: When building stress tests, modelers need to consider worst cases that are plausible. The most useful and robust scenarios begin qualitatively, with a narrative or story. Consistent quantitative relationships are then developed.

Description: Feature article discussing important issues related to retirement.

Description: Review of experiences and lessons learned from the New Brunswick shared risk plan to encourage continued improvements in plan design and administration

Description: This article discusses the temporary waiver and how it provides only limited relief from the section 401a9 minimum distribution requirements.

Description: Summary of 1998 IRC, PBGC, Federal Income Tax, Social Security, and Medicare Amounts by Heidi R. Dexter from Pension Section News, January 1998, Issue No. 35.