Description: Letter from the editor, outlining the theme and providing a brief description of each article within this edition of NewsDirect.

Description: In this Pension Section News article from May 2010, Wendy Weiss reflects on her own clients’ retirement savings practices against the backdrop of major industry surveys and studies.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the creation of a Diversity Extension of the new University-Earned Credit (UEC) program. One of the SOA’s key strategic initiatives is to engage diverse communities to address key societal issues and to work to build a more diverse actuarial profession. The UEC Diversity Extension will begin investing in efforts to achieve greater diversity within the actuarial profession.

Description: This report explores the financial planning, support networks, health concerns, and use of technology among older adults who identify as solo-agers.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to present historical U.S. population mortality rates by gender and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2020. To develop these rates, the SOA relied upon data furnished by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration. A document summarizing key observations and the process used to develop the rates, along with a table of the rates themselves, can be found below.

Description: The SOA Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program and Canadian Institute of Actuaries are pleased to make available the first of two reports that look at Benefit at Risk (BaR) in lifetime pension pools.

Description: This report examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental illness and the impact of mental illness on mortality and longevity in the U.S.

Description: This document is an appendix titled "Respondent Demographic Overview and Survey Questions" to a research report on perceptions of insurance and retirement products across diverse U.S. populations. It provides demographic data on survey respondents and includes survey questions related to various demographic characteristics.

Description: This report focuses on disparities in retirement savings based on race and ethnicity. It includes a thorough review of the literature on the extent of racial disparities in retirement savings and possible causes for and correlates of these disparities.

Description: This report updates the Canadian Mortality Data through 2021 in the Human Mortality Database and Canadian Human Mortality Database, including methodology, data sources, and internal consistency checks.