Retirement
The Academy’s Retirement Practice Council (RPC) is a trusted source of expertise for policymakers and regulators tackling important policies regarding Social Security, public and private pension plans, other retirement benefits and investment strategies, and related lifetime security policy issues.
The RPC provides clear and objective technical guidance to help create a future of security and stability for U.S. organizations and retirees.
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Multiemployer Pension Plans
Multiemployer plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, and plan design.
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Pension Accounting and Finance
Financial reporting for retirement plans, including updates from national and international accounting standards bodies, policy changes, and new regulations.
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Public Pension Plans
State and local government employee benefit plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, design, and actuarial standards of practice related to public plans.
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Retirement Policy
Long term retirement policy, including the effects of legislation and regulations on retirement benefits, and emerging issues affecting retirement plans.
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Social Security
Financial sustainability and other topics related to the Social Security program.
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Issue Brief
Raising the Retirement Age for Social Security
Social Security Committee issue brief examining the potential effects of increasing the Social Security normal retirement age.Essential Elements: Clarifying Misunderstanding of Life Expectancy and COVID-19
The Academy’s Essential Elements: Clarifying Misunderstanding of Life Expectancy and COVID-19 is a useful guide for understanding this complex concept, especially with regard to the COVID-19…
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Committee Publishes Issue Brief on Interpreting Pandemic-Related Decreases in Life Expectancy
The Pension Committee published an issue brief providing information to help the reader better understand the complexities involved in the measurement of life expectancy estimates.
Topics: Retirement
Issue Brief
Issue Brief on Interpreting Pandemic-Related Decreases in Life Expectancy
Pension Committee issue brief explaining complexities involved in the measurement of life expectancy estimates.
Topics: Retirement
Issue Brief
Committee Releases Issue Brief on Potential for Changing Roles of Employers in Retirement Programs
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee released an issue brief, Retirement Policy: Potential for Changing Roles of Employers in Retirement Programs, which considers aspects of…
Topics: Retirement
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Issue Brief on Potential for Changing Roles of Employers in Retirement Programs
Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue brief exploring the potential to redefine the role of employers involved in retirement programs by removing many of the direct responsibilities…
Topics: Retirement
Committees Submit Comments on Third Exposure Draft of ASOP No. 4
The Pension Committee, Multiemployer Plans Committee, and Public Plans Committee submitted comments to the Actuarial Standards Board regarding the third exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of…
Comment / Letter
Comments from Committees on Third Exposure Draft of ASOP No. 4
Comments from the Pension Committee, Multiemployer Plans Committee, and Public Plans Committee to the Actuarial Standards Board regarding the third exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of Practice…
Issue Brief
Committee Releases Issue Brief on Degrees of Risk Sharing in New Retirement Plan Designs
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee published an issue brief examining issues pertaining to newer and novel plan designs as they relate to risk sharing between plan sponsors and…
Topics: Retirement
Issue Brief
Issue Brief on Degrees of Risk Sharing in New Retirement Plan Designs
Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue brief examining issues pertaining to newer and novel plan designs as they relate to risk sharing between plan sponsors and participants.
Topics: Retirement