The Academy's 2006 analysis on the availability and affordability of terrorism risk insurance coverage for the President's Working Group on Financial Markets was cited.

Sam Gutterman's remarks on behalf of the Academy during a July 9 Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable on fair value accounting standards were cited. Gutterman said there was a need to educate corporate officers, boards, auditors, and investors on the issue.

A look at how advances in data crunching are changing science, medicine, business, and technology included an anecdote about how actuaries and the Academy used catastrophe models and terabytes of data to estimate the insured losses that could result from various types of terrorist attacks. The feature also cited the Academy's 2006 analysis of terrorism risk coverage for the President's Working group on Financial Markets.

The Academy's to-be-released statement on the Social Security retirement age was previewed. The Academy's Bruce Schobel said, "You just can't have people living longer and longer and longer, and have the program with a frozen normal retirement age of 67. It just doesn't make sense."

A news conference to announce the Academy's advocacy statement on increasing the Social Security's retirement age was discussed. "Holding the retirement age constant is a certain prescription for future financial problems," said Tom Terry, the Academy's vice president for pension issues.

The Academy's recommendation to increase the Social Security retirement age was discussed. 

The Academy's recommendation to address Social Security's "permanent imbalance" by increasing the retirement age was cited. 

The Academy's recommendation to increase the Social Security retirement age was cited. 

The Academy's statement calling for an increase in the Social Security retirement age was cited. 

The Academy's recommendation to increase the Social Security retirement age was cited.