Description: Recaps the content of leading presentations at 2016 Inv Symposium. Topics include bond liquidity, investment outlook, low rate portfolio strategies

Description: A pension actuary and a life actuary collaborate to express public pension liability and asset issues in terms and figures that an insurer would use

Description: Describes the challenges of using replacement ratios for retirement planning and suggests alternative approaches including spending strategies such as the 4% rule or divide your age by 20 (Feel Free spending) rule. Identifies and prioritizes different types of spending needs including sustenance, lifestyle, health care and bequest. In addition the article provides data showing how spending typically drops as retirees age and discusses how to take this into account when planning when to retire or how much to spend in retirement.

Description: Invest Fallacies: Active management overall performs different than passive management

Description: Appendix to report, Variable Uninsured (Value) Life Annuities

Description: R. Evan Inglis, the new chairperson of the SOA/AAA Joint Pension Finance Task Force, shares with us his view of the important pension finance issues facing actuaries and the task force’s vision of how pension finance can strengthen the actuarial profession.

Description: Feature article discussing how much money an individual needs to retire comfortably.

Description: Correspondence report - 2016 Society of Actuaries Annual meeting

Description: Feature article discussing the PBGC’s asset reallocation plan.

Description: The article is a memorial to the life, work and accomplishments of the influential actuary Jeremy Gold. It describes his career and education in finance and how he used his background to fight for better risk management of pension plans especially those sponsored by state and local governments. It describes his research and important published papers, along with his involvement in the effort to educate the actuarial profession about financial economics. Some personal anecdotes are also included.