Description: Excel tool to accompany the essay by Max Rudolph called, “Take Ownership of Your Retirement Process: Oversight Tool to Understand Risks”. The tool and the essay are part of the Products, Tools and Strategies that Address Retirement Risks Essay Collection.

Description: This report provides an overview of selected key results from the 2019 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey.

Description: Though some defined contribution plans have added retirement income options in the form of annuities, there is a challenge to retirees in deciding whether to select such options and if so the amount to purchase. This article discusses a variety of considerations that retirees should be aware of when making a decision to annuitize.

Description: Presentation provided at the 55th Actuarial Research Conference Session on Retirement Risks: Pre and Post-COVID-19 - Findings from the 2019 Retirement Risk Survey

Description: The prospects of longer retirement durations driven by the continued improvement in mortality, changes in social insurance “normal” retirement ages, and/or socio-economic factors, have made several decisions about retirement more important.

Description: This article helps illustrate that a guaranteed income stream in retirement has much more value than merely longevity protection. Used properly, a payout annuity is also a hedge against one's retirement nest egg evaporating, leaving the retiree living check to check on a fixed income only. The article will be of interest to those involved in product development and design, sales and marketing, and payout annuities or guaranteed withdrawal benefits in general.

Description: Fact sheet about the report series highlighting SOA research on post-retirement risks.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a research brief highlighting retirees' income sources and pre-retirees' expected income sources.

Description: This report pulls together various findings on long-term care research from the 2017 Risks and Process in Retirement Survey as well as other SOA research.

Description: Many retirement actuaries have experience developing, implementing, and monitoring Liability Driven Investing (LDI) strategies for plan sponsors. These strategies typically involve modifying a plan’s investment strategy to remove a significant portion of the investment and interest rate risk now or at some point in the future when specific triggers are met. The tactics often involve the use of fixed income assets to cash flow and/or duration match the liabilities. In the spirit of helping actuaries expand their roles in an evolving defined contribution world, this article explores the application of LDI and derisking strategies within defined contribution and individual retirement accounts. The economic theory behind this approach is called the lifecycle hypothesis, or lifecycle finance. The benefits of the lifecycle finance method are that it provides a safe approach to save for retirement and a secure source of floor income during retirement. Similar to pension plans, each individual has his or her own idiosyncratic needs, wants, and risks that should be considered. Actuaries are uniquely situated to help defined contribution plan sponsors, individuals, and even themselves implement the lifecycle finance approach by developing and distributing tools and methods that focus on income (rather than wealth), LDI strategies, and personalization.