Description: Evaluate the potential for target benefit plan designs across the full spectrum of defined benefit to defined contribution to provide more flexibility in benefit design while considering regulatory implications.

Description: Introducing the New SOA Retirement Practice Community, which is a merger of the old SOA Retirement Section Council and SOA Social Insurance & Public Finance.

Description: This article is based on a report titled Public Misconceptions About Retirement Security, which is a project of the Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks and jointly sponsored by LIMRA International, the Society of Actuaries and Mathew Greenwald & Associates. The report is found on the post-retirement needs and risks page, which is located here.

Description: This article provides a Retirement 20/20 update.

Description: Instructions for accessing the Understanding America Study (UAS) Comprehensive File. The SOA provided support for the creation of the file.

Description: VM-22 will be finalized during 2025 with an optional phase-in period beginning 1/1/2026 and mandatory implementation by 1/1/2029. This session will discuss the regulation, including background, calculations, high-level results from the field test and other modeling, as well as key considerations and documentation for actuaries and companies as they prepare to transition their fixed annuities into a principle-based reserve framework. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the new VM chapter as well as some of the thinking behind the decisions made.

Description: The SOA Research Institute seeks researchers and essayists to explore the multifaceted impacts of climate risk on retirement. The desired deliverable is a resource that catalogues major related issues while providing current considerations and potential future dynamics. The intended audience for this effort is actuaries and other retirement professionals.

Description: An article about how to determine the best time to retire

Description: This is a call for essays on the impact of family structure on aspects of retirement. It provides background information, sample topics of interest, submission guidelines, awards information, and details about publication and presentation of selected essays.

Description: Research the impact of illiquid investments on pension plan funding, design, and risk management strategies.