Description: The SOA is pleased to make available a report highlighting findings related to housing from the biennial survey, Risks and Process of Retirement.

Description: This one page document summarizes the 11 issue briefs produced by The Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks. The briefs examine the major decisions encountered in retirement and tackle a variety of retirement decisions with practical considerations and advice.

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks is issuing this request for proposals to study how individuals make retirement decisions. The Committee seeks to better understand retirement decision-making, what and when steps are completed, how finances and other factors are considered and how successful retirees are in their retirement years.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. The U.S. retirement system has many defects that affect individuals’ ability to survive living to 100. This paper explores some of the problems that individuals face and recommends changes that could make the U.S. system work better.

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: The article presents a retiree's perspective and personal experiences & considerations in managing risks & challenges in retirement distribution.

Description: Column describes results of retirement needs survey and summarizes upcoming or new educational opportunities and highlights actuaries in the news.

Description: This software was developed as a pedagogical tool to help demonstrate the impact of a change in retirement income strategy on potential financial outcomes. A user can consider various strategies of longevity and asset performance risk transferal and observe the resulting changes on a range of modeled outcomes. The overall purpose is to provide an understanding of the trade–offs of risk and reward in retirement strategies. The software is not intended as a comprehensive retirement planning tool and should not be used, under any situation, for this purpose.

Description: This software was developed as a pedagogical tool to help demonstrate the impact of a change in retirement income strategy on potential financial outcomes. A user can consider various strategies of longevity and asset performance risk transferal and observe the resulting changes on a range of modeled outcomes. The overall purpose is to provide an understanding of the trade–offs of risk and reward in retirement strategies. The software is not intended as a comprehensive retirement planning tool and should not be used, under any situation, for this purpose.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Stanford Center on Longevity released a report exploring the feasibility of implementing the “Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy.