Description: The article summarizes three papers presented at the 2014 Living to 100 Symposium V, which was hosted by the SOA in Orlando in January 2014. The papers take three different views of retirement saving: the individual's, the insurance provider's and a wholesale risk management view. David Blanchett of Morningstar proposes a new model to assess the true cost of retirement, Moshe Milevsky proposes a new product concept based on the nearly forgotten tontine and Johnny Li proposes a new set of mortality indices based on the Cairns-Blake-Dowd projection model for the purpose of actively managing mortality and longevity risk.

Description: Letter from the editor urging section members to participate in section activities.

Description: Summary of the annual cost-of-living adjustment and changes in other wage-indexed programs parameters for Social Security in 2024.

Description: Description of Social Security COLA for December 2020 and wage-indexed program parameters for 2021.

Description: Feature article discussing how Social Security benefits are computed for some government employees.

Description: This article is about the actuarial information that I did not find and what I would like to find in the future. It is about the actuarial information that is necessary for informed public discourse concerning our public pensions.

Description: Brief description of articles contained in the newsletter.

Description: Summary of Medicaid encounter data, including how it is collected by health plans, transferred to state databases, used by states, and ultimately sent to CMS. The status of the CMS T-MSIS project is discussed, as well as the future of Medicaid encounter data as a source of information for many stakeholders.

Description: Chairperson's views on SIPF section's new mission statement approved by the SOA Board.