Description: Article describing some of the significant changes occurring in Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall with a focus on life insurance and conversion to a private pension market.

Description: This article offers a big picture of PRNR research, and provides brief summaries of research on risks, decisions, financial wellness, advice, and software.

Description: June 2013 issue of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section newsletter, In The Public Interest.

Description: This is an article explaining the options employers have under the Medicare Part D, or the Prescription Drug Improvement and Medicare Modernization Act - MMA - that took effect in January 2006. The article discusses 4 options under the MMA with the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: This article introduces the special rules that apply to employees of state and local governments that choose to be covered by the U.S. Social Security program.

Description: This article reviews a paper developed by Rob Brown on the optimal design of retirement income security systems. The article intends to move readers to read Brown's article and consider how actuaries can play a significant role in the development and evaluation of social insurance policy. This will be of value to actuaries as the profession is presented the opportunity to participate in shaping financial security for all people.

Description: Letter from the editor discussing the articles in the June issue of In The Public Interest.

Description: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: The article presents descriptions of the July, 2015, newsletter articles, and the author suggests topics where future articles are welcome.