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Retirement Report, Spring 2026
A panel from last year’s symposium, including Retirement VP Bruce Cadenhead (second from left)
Retirement Symposium Set for September
Mark your calendar to join the Academy and the Retirement Practice Council (RPC) for Toward a Sustainable...
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Retirement Report, Winter 2026
Social Security Challenge Updated
The Academy’s Social Security Challenge has been updated to reflect projections from the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Chief Actuary’s 2025 Trustees Report, as well as the mid-January SSA...
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Retirement Report, Fall 2025
Symposium Offers Perspectives on Retirement, Social Security
The Academy’s Actuarial Perspectives and Solutions for Strengthening the U.S. Retirement System symposium, held Sept. 18 in the nation’s capital, covered a range of retirement...
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Retirement Report, Summer 2025
Q&A-Issue Brief Examines Spousal Protections
Rydberg
The Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation (RPADE) Committee published an issue brief, Improving Spousal Retirement Plan Protections-Gaps and Policy Proposals, examining...
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Retirement Report, Spring 2025
DC Committee Releases Decumulation Issue Brief
Carnovale
The Pension Committee's Defined Contribution (DC) Subcommittee released an issue brief in March, Decumulation Strategies: Creating Lifetime Income from Defined Contribution Plans,...
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Retirement Report, Winter 2025
June Retirement Symposium to Examine Social Security, Public Policy Issues
Retirement VP Jason Russell opens the June 2024 Retirement Symposium
The Retirement Practice Council (RPC) will host a "Future of Retirement" Symposium in June,...
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Retirement Report, Fall 2024
Q&A-Immigration & Social Security
The Social Security Committee released a public policy issue paper, Immigration and Social Security, which discusses the importance of immigration to the financial evolution of Social...
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Retirement Report, Spring/Summer 2024
‘ERISA at 50' Kicks Off With Webinar, Symposium
Featured Speaker-EBSA Assistant Secretary Lisa Gomez
EBSA's Lisa Gomez addresses the symposium
The Academy's "Looking Back, Moving Forward: ERISA at 50" series marking the 50th...
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Retirement Report, Winter 2024
Introducing the Retirement Practice Council
By Jason RussellRetirement Vice PresidentAmerican Academy of Actuaries
Russell
The Academy's Board of Directors voted to approve the request from the Pension Practice Council to change its name to...
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Retirement Report, Fall 2023
Q&A-Gender Expansive Data Considerations in a Pension Context
A recent Pension Committee issue brief, Valuing Gender Expansive Data, examines issues pension actuaries might consider when performing an actuarial valuation using sex/gender...
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Retirement Report, Summer 2023
‘Challenge' Is Embraced by Stakeholders Seeking Social Security Solution
By Ted Gotsch
The release of the Academy's Social Security Challenge is being praised by the public, policymakers, and in the press alike as an effective way...
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Retirement Report, Spring 2023
Now Live: The Academy's Social Security Challenge
The Academy's new Social Security Challenge went live in March. Offering a look at the popular program's funding and reform options, the interactive tool is a timely contribution to...
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The Retirement Report, Fall 2022
Q&A: Working With Augmented Mortality Models-What Users Need to Know
Lowman
Members of the Pension, Multiemployer Plans, and Public Plans committees published a discussion brief intended to familiarize actuaries with commonly used...
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The Retirement Report, Spring 2022
Q&A-Issue Brief Examines Reform Options for Social Security Retirement Age
Mingione
In a public policy issue brief, Raising the Social Security Retirement Age, the Academy's Social Security Committee-which has reviewed a broad array...
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The Retirement Report, Fall/Winter 2021–2022
Q&A-Pension Committee's Life Expectancy Issue Brief
Cadenhead
Black
The Academy's Pension Committee released an issue brief, Interpreting Pandemic-Related Decreases in Life Expectancy, that examines life expectancy in the context...
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The Retirement Report, Summer-Fall 2021
Summer-Fall 2021
Vol 4 | No. 3
Q&A—Multiemployer Plans and the American Rescue Plan Act
The Multiemployer Plans Committee provided comments to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on the PBGC’s interim final rule on...
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The Retirement Report, Spring 2021
Spring 2021
Vol 4 | No. 2
Pension Practice Council Conducts Virtual ‘Hill Visits’
KeenerPension Practice Council (PPC) volunteers and Academy staff virtually visited with congressional offices and federal agencies May 10–11,...
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The Retirement Report, Fall 2020
Fall 2020
Vol 3 | No. 4
Q&A—Social Security Committee Examines Immigration, Assumption-Setting; Looks Ahead to Social Adequacy/Individual Equity
Assumptions Used to Evaluate Social Security’s Financial Condition, which explores...
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The Retirement Report, Summer 2020
Summer 2020
Vol 3 | No. 3
Q&A: Asset Allocation—‘Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse’
Inglis
The Pension Practice Council published an issue brief, Asset Allocation and the Investment Return Assumption, in...
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The Retirement Report, Spring 2020
Spring 2020
Vol 3 | No. 2
Academy Wraps Up Successful Three-Part ‘Retirement in America’ Webinar Series
The Academy’s Pension Practice Council (PPC) wrapped up its “Retirement Plan Coverage in America” webinar...