Description: Soon you receive the Council’s postcard announcing our new strategic project to Re-envision Retirement. Anyone who works with pension plans has seen more defined benefit plans freeze in the last few years. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: The first “Fertility Projections for Social Insurance Symposium” was held on Nov. 14 to 15, 2005 as part of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries in New York City. The symposium originated from a call for papers (by the Committee on Social Security of the SOA) on fertility and immigration factors affecting social insurance projections. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: This article discusses pension plans in North America as compared to pension plans in Japan from the perspective of the author, who has lived in both places, currently residing in Japan. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: This is a Pension Section News book review of 'Annuity Markets and Pension Reform,' by George A. 'Sandy' Mackenzie. The book has two main objectives. First, for public pension systems that plan to implement individual account reform, it provides a guide to the policies that should govern and regulate distributions from individual accounts. Second it considers the adequacy of the regulation and supervision of the annuity business, and how private annuity markets might function more efficiently.

Description: Editor Art Assantes looks at the results of our first ever PSN “quick poll.”antes

Description: The author provides an overview of the symposium and highlights the material of particular interest to pension actuaries. From the Pension Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 68.

Description: In this article, the Editor previews the contents of this issue.

Description: In this article, the Chairperson talks about the activities of the Pension Section.

Description: One of the significant changes for Baby Boomers approaching retirement has been the increased responsibility placed on individuals to make more decisions and take additional personal responsibility for their retirement planning. At the 2008 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, the authors presented a session focused on key decisions that individuals must make as they plan for retirement. This article summarizes the presentation at that session from two perspectives: that of an actuary, and that of a financial planner/wealth manager.

Description: A brief look at the roles and structure of the council’s Communications Team during the past year and the expanded functionality of the team under Faisal Siddiqi, the new chair of the Communications Team for 2010-2012.