Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a summary report that highlights key findings from the latest biennial survey, Risks and Process of Retirement.

Description: This paper will focus on default distributions and why they are important.

Description: The is the abstract for a paper that discusses retirement planning information and the signals it provides. It focuses on the issue of communicating lump sum versus income benefits. It discusses challenges in communicating income benefits and provides some alternatives.

Description: This paper identifies important areas of post-retirement risk, with emphasis on advanced ages and on the perspective of the individual. It also includes public perceptions about post-retirement risk and information about the links of some plan features to post-retirement risk. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Explores SOA and other research on shocks and unexpected expenses. Discusses impact of shocks and strategies for responses. Includes many focus group quotes.

Description: Feature article discussing how the SOA Living to 100 Symposium can benefit those interested in social insurance and public finance.

Description: Full version of Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

Description: SOA Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risk by Anna M. Rappaport from Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

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.

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.