Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds presents the assumptions and methods underlying the actuarial estimates.

Description: The standard for measuring retirement income adequacy has been the final earnings replacement rate (usually targeted at 70%). But - does it work?

Description: Summary of the financial projections shown in the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report.

Description: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: The work of the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks—including focus groups and Risks and Process of Retirement Surveys—offers important insights into when, how and why people retire.

Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: Story of how Canada reformed its social security pension plan in the 1990's

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. These are reference charts for The 'Access to Health Coverage' session which illustrate the US, insured and uninsured health care economy.

Description: The article explores ways that legislative policy options that focus on both trust fund solvency and benefit adequacy may be implemented to bring about Social Security solvency and sustainability.

Description: Column from the SI&PF section’s chairperson discussing opportunities for the section and its members.