Description: Read the May 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: In this article, the chairperson recaps what the section has been doing over the last three months. Items include development of a plan for organizing and promoting the retirement research, supporting the SOA's Rapid Retirement Research Initiative and developing a plan termination symposium. From Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

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: Feature article discussing various research programs centered on retirement needs.

Description: Provides perspective on how risk has been shared in a variety of retirement and insurance arrangements, and suggestions some ideas for innovations and different risk sharing in the future. Traditional retirement program are defined benefit and defined contribution, which have very different methods of risk sharing. The new ideas share risk differently. Offers some history of retirement and risk sharing. Goal is to improve retirement security.

Description: This study note will cover the fundamental requirements for a plan to attain qualification and the advantages that qualified status bestows upon those involved in the plan.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that relates to determining the next standards applicable for pension plan valuation in Canada, depending upon further decisions to be made by the Actuarial Standard Board-Conseil des norms actuarielles.

Description: This research report analyzed the effects of different types of informational interventions on annuity-related behavioral intentions and beliefs, such as estimated retirement age and life expectancy.

Description: The Pension Section is pleased to make available Part I of a two-part research paper exploring embedded options in pension plans. Part I includes a catalogue of embedded options in pension plans and the results of a related survey of pension practitioners. The paper was written by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC.

Description: This table is an analysis of engagement among adults age 55 and older by health status. Engagement is defined as time spent in paid work, formal volunteering informal volunteering and caregiving activities.