Description: The importance of storytelling in financial communication and its role in conveying complex financial reporting results and insights to diverse stakeholders cannot be denied.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Pension Section and Health Section Research teams originally commissioned Professor Thomas E. Getzen of Temple University to construct a resource model for the projection of long term healthcare cost trends. The Society of Actuaries continues to make annual updates to the model to ensure its usefulness and relevancy.

Description: In 2012, the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs conducted an online survey of older adults. The survey set out to answer: • How do older adults use financial products as they age? • How do older adults make their financial decisions and where do they turn for advice? • What are older adults’ main sources of financial stress? Since the fielding of that survey, the American economy has steadily recovered from the Great Recession. In April 2015, the University of Southern California’s Understanding America Study (UAS) conducted the Financial Management Survey to investigate how the financial lives of Americans have changed with the recovery. In addition to updating the earlier survey this also serves as a contrast because the data covers all ages 18 and over, allowing a comparison of the financial management of individuals and households of all ages.

Description: This is a report that provides an analysis using data submitted by participating companies evaluating the impact of valuation mortality tables proposed for use in the life insurance industry. This study was designed to help “field test” the proposed tables on calculations for ordinary life insurance statutory reserves under VM-20 and tax reserves, nonforfeiture values, and IRC 7702/7702A.

Description: This is the first report in a series on the current state and future opportunity of the retirement market in China. This report, edition one of the series, summarizes the significant outcomes from the study. Also included in this edition is a retirement forecast outlining the drivers of change for China’s retirement market and the resulting opportunities.