Description: This article discusses that mortality tables should reflect improving mortality. The Group Annuity Mortality table GAM-83 is probably the most common table used by pension actuaries—75 percent of the plans in Watson Wyatt’s “2003 Survey of Actuarial Assumptions and Funding” use GAM-83 for funding calculations. However, there are three more recently published tables that warrant consideration for use in pension valuations: UP-94, GAM-94 and RP-2000. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: The authors discuss current and future efforts to expand the services the Society of Actuaries is able to provide members and other stakeholders in China and to support the growth of the profession there.

Description: Full version of Pension Section News, August 2005, Issue No. 59.

Description: This article summarizes the SOA 2003 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article announces the availability and provides an overview of the 2003 SOA Pension Plan Turnover Study. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: Full version of Pension Section News, Issue No. 57, January 2005.

Description: MacGinnitie discusses how retirement may change in the 21st century. First, he discusses what forces are shaping current retirement trends and what might happen to redefine retirement in the 21st century. He then examines what this might mean for private pension systems, and how actuaries can adapt.

Description: Feature article about what the SOA’s CPD Requirement means to actuaries.

Description: The risk/delivery/protection framework was first presented to participants in the SOA's Long-Term Care Think Tank seminar in a survey. That survey was designed to get participant opinions on how the system might evolve over the next five to 10 years. The results of the survey are summarized in the article.