Description: The article is a summary of Society of Actuaries report entitled “Annuity Market Pricing Approaches” sponsored by the Retirement Section Research Committee. The report examines the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) methodology of developing solvency valuation assumptions, compares it to methods used in the U.S., and considers if it could be used in other markets, such as U.S. group annuities or individual annuities

Description: This article provides an update on Department of Labor's fiduciary regulation for retirement plans/investors focusing on a July 2017 request for information.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report which presents the 2001-2002 calendar-year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. For the first time, the committee has presented the results in pivot table format. This is that pivot table of the 2001–02 Group Annuity Experience Report. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: This report compares the CIA pricing method for estimating group annuity closeout pricing to methods used in the US.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report, which presents the 2003 through 2006 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. The committee has also presented the results in pivot table format to allow readers to easily customize their analyses to suit their individual purposes. This is that table which is call 2001-2006 Group Annuity Pivot Table. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: Modeling experience sharing by David Yu who leads the retirement product and asset model development team within Prudential Financial

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this experience update, which presents the 2015 through 2016 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. This update compares these most recent two years of available experience to the 2011-14 period and analyzes how the recent data affects aggregate annual mortality improvement in the group annuity experience data since 2007.

Description: Public DB plans have fatal designs such as basing benefits on a few years of earnings. Redesigning DB to be similar to SS will alleviate solvency challenges.

Description: This experience is predominantly based on retired lives, which includes benefit payments made under ongoing pension plans, terminated plans pension closeouts, partially guaranteed arrangements, such as certain Immediate Participation Guarantee contracts and non-guaranteed arrangements.