Group Annuity Contracts for Pension Risk Transfer

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This joint pension and life practice area webinar was a follow-up to the popular breakout session from Envision Tomorrow 2023, and brought together subject matter experts for a panel discussion that covered the regulatory and structural evolution of insurance companies that provide pension risk transfer group annuity contracts.

Fixed Rate Pension Funding: A Discussion of the Practice Note

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Speakers walked through the new practice note, Fixed Rate Pension Funding, and shared current and emerging ideas for working with these plans.

Social Security Trustees Report: A Deep-Dive Discussion With the Program’s Actuaries

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Attendees gained insights into the recently released annual Social Security Trustees Report during this Capitol Forum webinar, which featured prominent actuaries who oversee the program. 

Measuring Pension Obligations for Difficult-to-Value Plan Provisions: A Discussion of the Practice Note

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This webinar was intended to help actuaries in working with defined benefit pension plan designs and provisions that may be difficult to adequately measure using traditional actuarial valuation procedures.

Insights Into the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Multiemployer Plan Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Application Process

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This webinar covered lessons learned from actual multiemployer plan SFA applications to date, to provide helpful information, especially for those practitioners who will be completing SFA applications for upcoming priority group plans, and those without priority.

Capital Market Outlook—What to Expect After 2022's Roller-Coaster Ride

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This webinar is intended to support pension actuaries with responsibility for setting and assessing economic assumptions. It provides an analysis of current capital market conditions in the context of historical trends, and offers insights into the implications for economic projections and impact on retirement plans going forward.

Discussion of Variable Annuity Plans Practice Note

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This webinar focused on the Variable Annuity Plans Practice Note published in 2019 which is relevant for private, multiemployer and public defined benefit (DB) pension plans that contain variable annuities

Capitol Forum Webinar-Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports: A Deep-Dive Discussion With the Programs’ Chief Actuaries

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Attendees gained insights into the recently released annual Medicare and Social Security trustees’ reports during this webinar, which featured prominent actuaries overseeing the two programs.

Capitol Forum: Dialogue with DOL on a National Retirement Income Policy

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Ali Khawar, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will be joining us for a discussion of EBSA’s current initiatives. He will have a dialogue with Academy representatives on concepts from the National Retirement Income Policy’s Issue Brief series published by the Academy’s Retirement System Assessment and Policy (RSAP) Committee.  These Issue Briefs cover topics such as portability, the degree of risk-sharing, the changing roles of employers and aligning plan design with employee engagement.

What’s the Deal With Low Interest Rates?

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Low interest rates during the past decade have been driven by systemic factors such as low growth, aging demographics and an economic shift toward technology and services. Aggressive monetary policy has been a key driver of both low rates and high capital asset values. What consequences will the growth in money supply have on capital markets and the macroeconomy?

This webinar will discuss the implications of low interest rates and recent monetary policy along with questions such as:

• What’s the outlook for interest rates going forward? 
• Do low rates mean low future investment returns? 
• What would the impact of low rates and returns be on employer retirement programs—both defined benefit and defined contribution?