Description: Anna and Maria report on the “Older Women in the Future: Adapting to Longer Lives” session that they jointly presented with Terry Kozlowski at last year’s World Future Society Conference, and provide brief summaries of selected other sessions they found interesting and/or surprising.

Description: Inaugural column from the 2011 Pension Section Council PSC Chairperson.

Description: Pension Section Communications Team Chairperson Faisal Siddiqi points out the valuable role played by the SOA’s Pension Research team, and provides insights and links to some of the resources of global interest and applicability to actuaries practicing in the retirement and related areas.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the impact automatic enrollment AE in 401k programs has on plan participants. From the Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: this article provides a detailed, comprehensive and independent analysis of the impact of introducing the single-tier state pension.

Description: updates on SOA research

Description: This essay explores the role that the emerging defined contribution retirement system may be playing in the growth of wealth inequality in the United States. The current system leaves many Americans with little or no retirement savings. Those with higher accumulation levels appear to invest proportionally more in equities, which may have an exponential effect of balances over long time periods. The author hypothesizes that willingness to take investment risk involves the relationship between the amount an investor has accumulated and what she/he needs in order to cover basic costs of living. This is one reason that investors with greater accumulation levels may be able to earn higher rates of return. The essay concludes by suggesting that the U.S. defined contribution system should include all workers and provide additional fiduciary guidance. Examples reforms, both in the U.S. and other countries, are provided.

Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report—1997 Fiscal Year from Pension Section News, August 1998, Issue No. 37.

Description: Measuring the Rate of Retirement in an Interval Beginning with an Eligibility Change Point by William H. Blake, Jr. from Pension Section News, January 1998, Issue No. 35.

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.