Description: Preview of 2017 retirement arena given US administration changes

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, discusses the trends in Europe on retirement plan designs and investments. European pension funds face challenges similar to those facing North American plans, so developments in Europe may help U.S. and Canadian plan sponsors find their way to a reasonable resolution of their current problems.

Description: This paper describes rates of disability based on recent experience under public retirement plans for U.S. Government Employees: 1988–1993. From Pension Section News, April 1998, Issue No. 36.

Description: Study Note Corner from Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 43.

Description: This article describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the SMI trust fund under the intermediate assumptions. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: Employers and investors have suffered recently from taking too much investment risk inside their defined benefit DB plans, producing calls for more transparent accounting. Some employers have tried to eliminate this pension risk by moving to defined contribution DC plans. From Pension Section News, January 2005, Issue No. 57. However, this is not the only, or even the best, option available. From Pension Section News, January 2005, Issue No. 57.

Description: This paper is a follow-up to the papers in the January and April 2005 editions of the Pension Forum, which focused on the interest assumptions to be used in pension funding. This paper focuses on the other assumptions used to calculate pension liabilities—mortality, early retirement and expense. From Pension Section News, April 2006, No. 61.

Description: The SOA hosted the 2009 Public Pension Finance Symposium in Chicago, May 18–19 2009. Tom Lowman provides us with a short and insightful summary of each session from the symposium.

Description: Anna Rappaport provides her usual highly-stimulating and thought-provoking summaries of ideas that she has heard and generated during some of her most recent expeditions to various Conferences, Meetings, Roundtables, Symposia and Retreats that deal with a wide variety of retirement and old age security related issues.

Description: In this article, the chairperson recaps what the section has been doing over the last three months. Items include development of a plan for organizing and promoting the retirement research, supporting the SOA's Rapid Retirement Research Initiative and developing a plan termination symposium. From Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.