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: "COVID-19 and excess mortality: an actuarial study – Camille Delbrouck, Aon Benfield, Belgium, Jennifer Alonso-García, Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney, Australia Netspar, The Netherlands How did COVID-19 change the dependence structure across major causes of death – Han Li, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Centre for Actuarial Studies | Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"

Description: Navigate a perspective on the process of developing estimates and projections of mortality rates, based on a Living to 100 paper by the teacher. Discover the approach and considerations an actuary (or others) can take to develop a mortality rate assumption for five time periods. It will describe techniques to estimate historical mortality rates from which to project future mortality rates.

Description: Getting people to think beyond retirement about future care needs and how they will be paid for is critical for a healthy aging plan. However, most people avoid the topic and make rushed decisions when finding long-term care services. Hear from experts in this advisory field explain what a successful plan looks like and what it takes to get people to plan ahead.

Description: This is a Request for Proposals document by the Society of Actuaries Retirement Section Research Committee, outlining topics for pension research proposals, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, conditions, and conflict of interest guidelines.

Description: This report examines a simple but accurate means of assessing discount rate sensitivity.

Description: Feature article discussing important issues related to retirement.

Description: Review of experiences and lessons learned from the New Brunswick shared risk plan to encourage continued improvements in plan design and administration

Description: Update to longitudinal study of corporate pension plan contributions: have they actually reduced unfunded liabilities?

Description: Read the October 2019 Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2019.