Description: A Towers Perrin proposal for pension funding reform.

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: This essay highlights that the healthcare of the future should offer unversal coverage, preserve competitiveness, research cost and quality and offer free or low cost preventative services.

Description: Essay suggests reforms of the U.S. health care system to promote financial soundness, broader access, and efficient operations. These reforms require that each participant in the system – individuals, employers, providers, insurers, and government – give a little.

Description: Charts for the Housing Wealth Effects, Boomer Refinancing, Housing Debt, and Retirement Saving Adequacy—1989-2007 monograph.

Description: This study revisits and updates the termination experience of single family mortgages originated during the early 1980s under the purview of the FHA and insured under the FHA's Mutual Mortgage Fund Insurance MMIF. It also provides a summary of the lessons learned from the study.

Description: Download the papers from the "The Old–Age Crisis–Actuarial Opportunities: The 1996 Bowles Symposium".

Description: This presentation concentrates on the regression analysis of three waves of data 2001, 2003, and 2005 from the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey CAMS. The CAMS collects consumption data from a random subset of respondents in the Health and Retirement Study HRS . The HRS is a nationally representative sample of persons who were aged 51 to 61 in 1992 and their spouses or partners. The survey is longitudinal in nature, with the baseline interview conducted in 1992 and subsequent waves occurring every two years. [Comments on long-term care needs and reverse mortgages will be offered at oral presentation without quantitative data.] From 'Needs and Spending in Retirement: Unraveling the Mystery' Symposium, Washington, D.C. October 2007.