Description: Overview of ideas about longevity risk management focused in part on plan design and on adjusting retirement ages, the interaction of multiple risks and on collective and multiple entity plans. Key ideas from the 2013 Pension Research Council meeting are included and several sets of resources are cited.

Description: The 2013 report looks remarkably similar to the 2012 report. The long-range, 75-year actuarial deficit grew slightly from 2.67 percent of taxable payroll to 2.72 percent of taxable payroll.

Description: The editor previews the issue.

Description: Report on 2013 committee activities and a cumulative summary of key findings of the research. There ae many consistent themes. Description of major ongoing work project.

Description: The SOA completed a preliminary study on indications of pent-up demand. The study examines new ACA enrollee use of preference-sensitive services.

Description: This one page paper highlights the results of the various comparisons for both R2 and MAPE at the individual enrollee level.

Description: The comments of DxCG about their participation in the SOA study A Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment.

Description: This analysis provides an overview of the functional components of the managed care system. It discusses the market forces underlying the United States’ system for health care financing and delivery and suggests how market forces impact the health care industry. The analysis focuses on societal goals for health care delivery and on managed care’s effectiveness in enabling achievement of those goals. The analysis develops and uses an innovative model developed to summarize the complex interplay among the many stakeholders, or participants, in the health care system. The model provides a framework for analysis of the many relationships among stakeholders. The analysis also highlights current issues in managed care, particularly the barriers that impede collaboration among stakeholders.

Description: press release about blue ribbon panel

Description: The article describes a dynamic investment strategy for defined benefit pension funds to de-risk the plan by changing the asset mix based on the funded ratio.