Description: HI Trust Fund: Actuarial Methodology and Principal Assumptions from Pension Section News, November 1998, Issue No. 38.

Description: An article summarizing the testimony of Ron Gebhardtsbauer of the American Academy of Actuaries to the Department of Labor regarding disclosure rules to employees for pension plan changes. From Pension Section News, June 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: TECHNICAL UPDATE 00-4 PBGC’s Full Funding Limit Exemption From The Variable Rate Premium from Pension Section News, October 2000, Issue No. 44.

Description: This article presents the findings of an Urban Institute study sponsored by the Pension Section and the Actuarial Foundation examining the election of joint and survivor annuities by married adults. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article discusses the findings of the Retirement Plan Preferences Survey which asked workers participating in defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans which retirement plans they prefer and what they understand. From Pension Section News, March 2004, Issue No. 54.

Description: This article reviews Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: This article looks at the risk of investing in stocks by using traditional actuarial tools, such as measuring the probability of ruin. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: This article discusses the challenges to today's retirement system. As part of the recent Re-envisioning Work and Retirement in the 21st Century symposium, held in Washington, D.C., attendees completed a Delphi survey covering challenges to today's retirement system. This article discusses the benefits of a Delphi survey and the results of this particular one. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: The author reportsand reflectson the rich and diverse findings and viewpoints presented at the October, 2008 Future of Life Cycle Savings and Investment Conference held at the Boston University School of Management. Links to the papers presented and more details as to the conference, as well as to a video, are provided.

Description: Anna gives us an excellent “layman’s overview” of concerns, challenges and potential areas for improvement in the area of pre-retirement disability—a contingency that is perhaps too frequently ignored or underemphasized in the general pension actuarial literature during the trend from DB to DC retirement vehicles.