Description: This article highlights the activities of the SOA and its newest retirement issues report, 'The Phases of Retirement and Planning for the Unexpected.' It describes the three separate phases or stages of retirement.

Description: This article discusses that while life style funds make sense for some, a growing minority of individuals successfully make their own investment decisions. It points out that these options should be kept available and that if proper education is provided the informed investor population would grow.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: Part II of a panel discussion on the state of life reinsurance. The article discusses alternatives to reinsurance such as securitization, the nature of changes in reinsurance from quota share to excess, the role of reinsurance in risk management and the future direction of the relationship between ceding companies and reinsurers.

Description: This article presents highlights from a Roundtable Discussion held at the 2008 Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance - NASI. Some issues discussed are the results of the SOA 2007 Survey on the Risks and Process of Retirement, the phases of retirement and the changes during retirement as a function of changing health and capability, age, changing family status and employment status.

Description: Article discussing the use of enterprise risk management in the health care industry.

Description: John Dewan, FSA, and his non-traditional career into baseball and STATS

Description: Department column explaining the SOA’s new e-Learning system.

Description: Feature article that makes the point that an MBA is needed in addition to an FSA.

Description: Article discussing the SOA’s plans for growth.