Description: Description of Social Security COLA for December 2020 and wage-indexed program parameters for 2021.

Description: Article discussing financial reporting topics discussed at the International Actuarial Association meeting in Washington D.C. in April.

Description: Editor’s column describing the contents of the July 2011 issue of In The Public Interest.

Description: Part One of a three part discussion of A Social Security System for the 21st Century, this part focuses the broader international, social, political, cultural and economic trends that will govern the viability and sustainability of a social security system in the 21st century.

Description: The NAIC Innovation work group has set out 10 ideas for improving the LTC insurance market. This article discusses and critiques those ideas.

Description: Provides a summary of key points from the ERISA Advisory Council Report on Outsourcing (2014). The report provides interesting and important perspectives and the article encourages the reader to look at the report and consider the issues raised.

Description: Summary of the December 2003 NAIC Meeting

Description: This article discusses the structure of and the dangers posed by Stranger-Originated Life Insurance STOLI.

Description: summary of Canadian topics from recent Retirement Section Council meeting. Update on defined contribution initiative and potential US legislation. Highlight recent SOA research on retirement income.

Description: In this article the author argues that a falling currency is a symptom of a country’s economic problems and discusses Canada’s experience through late 1997, and concludes that the government’s fiscal and monetary policies were not the long term answer to the problem.