Description: This SOA-funded study examines the relative performance of different risk assessment methods and risk adjustment systems. From A Comparative Analysis of Methods of Health Risk Assessment, M-HB96-1.

Description: This paper addresses the financial risk of long-term care by examining the use of reverse mortgages to help impaired elders continue to live at home.

Description: This paper examines the impact on retirement goals and savings behavior by participants in financial education seminars offered by TIAA-CREF .

Description: This paper examines the privatized individual pension accounts that are becoming widespread in a number of Latin American countries, and suggests that the experiences in these countries could offer guidance to other countries considering similar privatization.

Description: List of Tables. From Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-2.

Description: List of Tables. From A Comparative Analysis of Methods of Health Risk Assessment, M-HB96-1.

Description: This paper offers ideas on new retirement plan designs that share investment risk or longevity risk, or both, between employers and employees.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 5A. The paper presented proposes a new method to price the longevity risk premia in order to tackle the pricing obstacle.

Description: Centenarians persons living to age 100 and over represent a population that could be useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases. This study explores whether people living to 100 and beyond were any different from their peers at their middle age 30 years in terms of their physical characteristics height and body build, occupation and marital status.

Description: Authors’ response to Ryan Lab Asset Management’s Comments on their paper which examines the degree to which certain actuarial methods satisfy public pension plan funding objectives.