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.

Description: The recent release of the RP-2014 Mortality Table and Scale MP-2014 exposure drafts represent the SOA’s first comprehensive reexamination of U.S. pension-related mortality assumptions in over a decade. This paper summarizes the key conclusions reached in those exposure drafts and the estimated financial impact of adopting the new mortality assumptions.

Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report—1999 Fiscal Year by Joan M. Weiss from Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 43.

Description: Summary of 2000 IRC, PBGC, Federal Income Tax, Social Security, and Medicare Amounts by Heidi R. Dexter from Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 43.

Description: This article discusses building new retirement systems. It references an article published in the Economist, 'Actuaries and the pensions crunch: When the spinning stops,' Jan. 26, 2006, and the stir that article created in the pension community. This article suggests that we take our understanding of the global economy, business models, shareholder expectations, employee expectations, employment risks, pre-retirement risks and the emerging retirement paradigm and create a new retirement system. From Pension Section News, April 2006, No. 61.

Description: This article discusses the importance of employer retirement plans. Retirement security in the United States comes from Social Security, employer-sponsored benefits, and personal assets including housing and individual savings. The retirement system today is faced with a lot of change, threat and uncertainty. This article deals with the question: How do employers add value by sponsoring plans? It is positioned to open up a dialogue among actuaries and include embedded questions that are italicized throughout this article. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: This article discusses the call for papers entitled Re-envisioning Work and Retirement in the 21st Century which eventually led to the Re-envisioning Retirement in the 21st Century symposium that was held in Washington, D.C. on May 3-4, 2006. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: On June 26, 2007, the U.S. Conference Board sponsored a webcast on phased retirement. There were several interesting aspects of the webcast and ensuing discussion including: 1. Polling results, 2. Case studies about how employers have implied phased retirement programs, including examples of how employees are moved from job to job as they entered phased retirement, and 3. Participation by a number of employers indicating their interest in the topic. This article focuses on the first two of these three elements.

Description: Details on the contest for naming the Pension Section newsletter. From the Pension Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 68.