Description: Living beyond ones life expectancy poses many challenges. Among them are financial issues. Though there are products and strategies available that retirees could use to mitigate this financial risk they are seldom used. Reasons range from high cost, lack of awareness of the available options, and general underestimation of longevity risk. This paper poses the question as to whether the federal government can provide a solution to this potential problem in a fair and cost efficient manner. Ideas are presented as well as a discussion of the pros and cons of such a program concept.

Description: This article provides insights from the 2017 PSCA annual meeting and the Pension Research Council symposium on current pension system issues and solutions.

Description: This presentation from the 1998 Actuarial Research Conference is about about retirement plans in the late 1990's. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1999, Vol. 1.

Description: Provides personal perspective on moving from full time employment into a range of different activities before full retirement; provides ideas for new paths.

Description: This paper suggests that two opposing pressures are at work in the United States. One is the limit to the number of retired adults that the nation can support. The other is the growing diversity of needs and desires of older people and employers. These two opposing pressures will frame the issues of the future.

Description: This paper suggests a number of legislative changes, educational efforts, and changes in annuity products and asset allocation software that could assist workers and retirees to better prepare for and respond to declining mortality rates and future increases in income needs. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: This report provides a framework of analyses and methods that can be use to compare and assess strategies for developing lifetime retirement income.

Description: A highlight report on Financial Priorities stemming from a study on the financial perspectives of aging and retirement of Americans across five generations.

Description: The SOA is pleased to make available a series of reports highlighting the SOA's extensive boy of research on post-retirement risks and issues.

Description: Fact sheet about the monograph on Managing the Impact of Long-Term Care Needs and Expenses on Retirement Security.