Description: Informal discussion 2017 LT100 transcript for Session 1C: Impact of Aging: Biggest Current Policy Challenges from the U.K./U.S./Canada as a Result of Aging?

Description: Chapter 10 of the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. This chapter describes the Macroeconomic-Demographic Model of the U.S. Retirement Income System used to investigate alternative approaches to investment of the OASDI trust funds.

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: Policymakers often turn to elaborate computer models to assess the effect of proposed changes in Social Security or pension laws and regulations. At this session, descriptions of these models and their methods are presented, including a review of the models' capabilities and limitations. The potential for use by actuaries in connection with these models is also discussed. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

Description: Book Review: Pension Plans and Public Policy. The authors bring a wealth of experience from their years at TIAA-Cref to this most lucid discussion of the relationship between public policy,social security, and private and public pension plans.

Description: This paper examines how the costs in Canada of life insurance, medical care, disability, and retirement are impacted by increases in longevity. The paper then examines possible courses that policy action may take, and then proposes directions that employers may take in designing employee benefit programs.

Description: This article illustrates how today’s retirement system tools have potential to achieve financially secure retirement and lists options for system improvement.

Description: This article describes Singapore's Central Provident Fund and how it involves government, employers and employees in a cooperative partnership for mandatory savings and investment to assist with the primary lifetime goals of home ownership, medical care and retirement provision.