Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Social Security Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, Social Security Wage Index and Maximum PIA, other Social Security program data, Medicare data, Railroad Retirement Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, and the number of recipients and average monthly OASDI benefits.

Description: RL Bond Market Watch, July 2013 Resource for Pension Section members

Description: This paper uses economic principles to analyze alternative recognition schemes for end-of-period retirement plan liabilities the candidates, using U.S. nomenclature, are the vested benefit obligation VBO, the accumulated benefit obligation ABO and the projected benefit obligation PBO.

Description: This paper, written following a UK Actuarial meeting, is divided into three parts. Taken together, the three parts intend to provide the reader with an overview of the first 101 years of financial economics, with particular attention on those developments that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: This presentation presents formulas for the first two raw moments and the first joint moment of the aggregate risk process for medical malpractice insurance.

Description: This presentation considers the impact of sampling variation on the calibration of stochastic mortality models.

Description: This paper proposes weighted fund style analysis as a better method to hedge market risks of variable annuities.

Description: This paper addresses the questions of expectations from actuarial graduates and actuarial capabilities that they should have upon graduation.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the probability of a systemic event occurring within a financial network.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that defines a predictive model for assessing risk associated with information systems.