Description: Series of infographic to help individuals understand how life expectancy and the decisions they make impact their plans for a happy, healthy and well-funded retirement.

Description: 2007 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey Report - Understanding and Managing the Risks of Retirement

Description: This study, produced by the MetLife Mature Market Institute in partnership with the Society of Actuaries, demonstrates that family type is an important consideration in financial and retirement planning. This tip sheet, based on the study findings, provides areas that are important for all family types to consider, followed by additional considerations based on specific family types.

Description: This document summarizes the many potential hazards individuals may face during retirement. It is designed to serve as a complement to other retirement planning resources.

Description: To help the next generations to retire with financial security, financial services companies, employers, and financial advisors must do more. There are two paths to doing more: providing programs that work without individuals making choices on their own, and providing more education and encouragement. This paper is an attempt to move these efforts forward by presenting ideas for what consumers, employers, financial professionals, financial services companies, and government should do to help deal with the ongoing retirement challenges.

Description: This report presents the results of a telephone study among Americans aged 45 to 80.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and the Retirement Income Institute, a project of the Alliance for Lifetime Income, are partnering to explore ideas and thoughts on identifying current and alternative means of achieving and measuring retirement income adequacy. In issuing this call for essays, the organizations aim to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning to assist individuals, actuaries, financial advisors, employers and other stakeholders.

Description: Recently, we have seen renewed interest in the international (or “offshore”) pension plan. An international plan typically provides benefits for internationally mobile workers of a multinational employer, but can also be used for certain other workers. The plan is usually located in a respected international finance centre.

Description: The editorial discusses the challenges and actuarial considerations of older workers remaining in the workforce longer than they have in the past.

Description: The paper will focus on two broad areas, integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets in post-retirement financial planning. Modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance.