Retirement Plan Coverage in America: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Prospects (Part Three: Focus on Private-Sector Plans, State Initiatives, and Opportunities to Expand Coverage)
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The third webinar in the “Retirement Plan Coverage in America” series, “Part Three: Focus on Private-Sector Plans, State Initiatives, and Opportunities to Expand Coverage.”
Retirement Plan Coverage in America: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Prospects
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This three-part webinar series from the Academy’s Pension Practice Council focused on the current state of the retirement system where just over half of all American workers are participating in employer-sponsored plans.
Working With Auditors: Stories From Inside the Audit Engagement
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Panelists—including individuals who routinely support audit engagements and actuaries serving as valuation actuaries for their clients—provided background on the standards that guide audit engagements and how those influence the work of auditors and actuaries when supporting an audit engagement.
Toward a U.S. National Retirement Policy – A Dialogue on Key Elements for Success
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This Capitol Forum webinar engaged in dialogue with policy experts who presented a diverse range of views on the need for a comprehensive national retirement policy.
Developing Return Expectations in Today’s Capital Markets – What Methods Work Now?
In this webinar, actuaries experienced in capital markets and investments reviewed the fundamentals underlying return expectations and outlined current approaches to forecasting returns in today's capital market environment.
(July 30, 2019)Valuation of Lump-Sum Benefits
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This webinar looked at lump-sum payments and the valuation of these benefits.
Retirement Readiness In Three Countries: Who Is Ready To Retire?
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Speakers discussed how prepared citizens are for retirement in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, and explored some specific recommendations for policy initiatives aimed at improving overall retirement readiness.
Alternative Pension Cost–An Update and Review of Implementation Issues
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This webinar advanced the discussion of alternative/granular expense methodologies originally presented in the issue brief, Alternatives for Pension Cost Recognition—Issues and Implications, released by the Academy’s Pension Committee and Pension Accounting Committee in August 2015.
Alternatives for Pension Cost Recognition
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This webinar featured a discussion of an area of emerging practice to inform actuaries and other interested parties about alternative expense methodologies.
Capitol Forum Webinar: How Did State & Local Pension Plans Become Underfunded?
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This webinar discussed the evolution of the unfunded liability in public plans from 2001, when most plans were fully funded, to 2013, when virtually every plan reported significant underfunding.
