Description: Discusses help those who do not have enough quarters of work to qualify for Social Security.

Description: Discusses the Strategic Research Program Initiative Task Force

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: Read the February 2018 issue of Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Description of US Social Security COLA effective December 2024 and other automatic adjustments effective for 2025

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the May 2017 Pension Section News published by the Pension Section.

Description: Update on the activities of the Retirement Plans Experience Committee

Description: Interview with Joseph Goodman, vice president at Compass Lexecon.

Description: Preview of 2017 retirement arena given US administration changes

Description: This is an article from The Actuary that discusses the need to reform defined benefit plans. The number of defined benefit plans in the United States has declined significantly over the past 20 years. If Congress overlooks the interests of plan sponsors in its reform, we're likely to witness further erosion of an already weakened defined benefit system, and America's workers would be the ultimate losers.