Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report—2002 which provides greater detail concerning the valuation of future benefits than is contained on the PBGC's Annual Report.

Description: This article looks at the need for new defined benefit plan designs and their advantages. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: The first “Fertility Projections for Social Insurance Symposium” was held on Nov. 14 to 15, 2005 as part of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries in New York City. The symposium originated from a call for papers (by the Committee on Social Security of the SOA) on fertility and immigration factors affecting social insurance projections. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: This article discusses pension plans in North America as compared to pension plans in Japan from the perspective of the author, who has lived in both places, currently residing in Japan. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: This is a Pension Section News book review of 'Annuity Markets and Pension Reform,' by George A. 'Sandy' Mackenzie. The book has two main objectives. First, for public pension systems that plan to implement individual account reform, it provides a guide to the policies that should govern and regulate distributions from individual accounts. Second it considers the adequacy of the regulation and supervision of the annuity business, and how private annuity markets might function more efficiently.

Description: Editor Art Assantes looks at the results of our first ever PSN “quick poll.”antes

Description: In this article, the Editor previews the contents of this issue.

Description: One of the significant changes for Baby Boomers approaching retirement has been the increased responsibility placed on individuals to make more decisions and take additional personal responsibility for their retirement planning. At the 2008 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, the authors presented a session focused on key decisions that individuals must make as they plan for retirement. This article summarizes the presentation at that session from two perspectives: that of an actuary, and that of a financial planner/wealth manager.

Description: Table 1 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing types of research being done by the Pension Section Council and their time frame

Description: This article talks about the steps taken by one corporation to provide a comprehensive LTD program for their employees.