Description: This article shows how COVID-19 affected retirement risks, and how retirement planning was impacted by COVID-19. It ties together COVID-19 and its economic consequences with results of two recent consumer surveys that examine retirement risk perceptions and financial well being and a more complete discussion of retirement risks. The Managing Post-Retirement Risks guide divided retirement risks into economic risks, risks and personal planning considerations, and unexpected and unpredictable events. Each of the risks discussed in the guide is discussed in the article with commentary on COVID-19 and its impact, and information about how to manage the risk. For each risk, there is information provided about any insights gained in the two surveys. Results of the two surveys linked to COVID-19 are also discussed.

Description: This report provides background on U.S. trends in the timing of retirement, the claiming of benefits behavior, including discussion of labor force participation trends, the timing of commencement of Social Security, phased retirement alternatives, work as part of retirement, and the effects of retirement plan participation on these decisions. This study evaluates several of the more common retirement timing and claiming strategies using a retirement simulation model that incorporates investment, inflation, health and long-term care risks. Results of these simulations provide insight into the comparative risk exposures and costs of various retirement timing and claiming strategies for typical retiree households.

Description: This study builds on the prior studies, Measures of Retirement Benefit Adequacy and Improving Retirement Outcomes: Timing, Phasing, and Benefit Claiming, with a specific focus on how longevity impacts household financial needs in retirement and which strategies can best address these financial strains. A major conclusion from this research is that the risk of living long should be more carefully incorporated in household retirement planning.

Description: This paper deals with the workplace and the financial security issues related to the employer-employee relationship. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities - The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: These are the Discussant Comments by Anna M. Rappaport for the Housing, Health and Social Support of the Elderly Session 4B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This report provides background on U.S. trends in the timing of retirement, the claiming of benefits behavior, including discussion of labor force participation trends, the timing of commencement of Social Security, phased retirement alternatives, work as part of retirement, and the effects of retirement plan participation on these decisions. This study evaluates several of the more common retirement timing and claiming strategies using a retirement simulation model that incorporates investment, inflation, health and long-term care risks. Results of these simulations provide insight into the comparative risk exposures and costs of various retirement timing and claiming strategies for typical retiree households.

Description: Three noted actuaries who practice in the retirement systems area provide their prognosis of the future of pensions.

Description: The age 85+ population will continue to grow as a percentage of the population and this is the age where people need the most help. The Society of Actuaries has conducted a series of three studies to help understand the real situation of middle-class Americans and Canadians age 85 and over. The three studies are in-depth interviews with individuals and their children, a telephone survey of individuals and an online survey of children familiar with the situation of parents age 85 and over. In addition, the SOA has conducted an online discussion on cognitive decline, and two discussions among experts. A consolidated SOA report brings all of this work together. The presenters also have some personal experience. In this panel, the presenters will share insights into how people do at ages 85 and how things change over the period of retirement. Actual experiences do not always fit what experts predict. The findings include understanding the finances and needs of retirees, the kind of help needed and what the age over 85 population receive from family, professional caregivers, and advisors. It will also focus on needs for support, the challenges faced by those aging alone and decisions around housing. It will also include some discussion of intergenerational relationships and the impact of caregiving.