Description: Anna gives us an excellent “layman’s overview” of concerns, challenges and potential areas for improvement in the area of pre-retirement disability—a contingency that is perhaps too frequently ignored or underemphasized in the general pension actuarial literature during the trend from DB to DC retirement vehicles.

Description: This project explores various design and implementation details for the Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy (SSiRS).

Description: The Indian economy is growing with the growth of national income and per capita income, while society is facing the problem of an increasing number of persons in old age and the gradual erosion of the joint family system. The existing social security schemes do not cover the large mass of the working population. Therefore, India needs micro-pension plans that cover the large segment of people from the unorganized sector.

Description: This material summarizes work done to date to develop a model for a quantitative evaluation framework for retirement benefit systems.

Description: In this paper, the authors assess the value of a GSA-type annuity within a retiree's portfolio.