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Committee Releases Issue Brief on Funding Rules Considerations
The Pension Committee published an issue brief highlighting public policy considerations involved in potential modifications to single employer pension plan funding rules. DownloadDate Published: 04/20/2022
Issue Brief
Issue Brief on Public Policy Considerations for Funding Rules Proposals
Pension Committee issue brief highlighting key considerations around potential modifications to single employer pension plan funding rules. DownloadDate Published: 04/20/2022
Intersector Group Releases February Meeting Notes With PBGC
The Intersector Group released notes from its February 2022 virtual meeting with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/25/2022
Issue Brief
National Retirement Policy—Guiding Principles Series
Series of Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue briefs published between July 2019 and March 2022 laying out guiding principles for a comprehensive national retirement policy. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/09/2022
Committee Presents Series of Issue Briefs Laying out Guiding Principles for Comprehensive National Retirement Policy
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee completed a series of issue briefs laying out guiding principles for a comprehensive national retirement policy, begun with July 2019’s… Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/09/2022
Issue Brief
Committee Releases Issue Brief on Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement
The Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee released an issue brief, Retirement Policy: Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement, which analyzes how retirement program… Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/09/2022
Issue Brief
National Retirement Policy—Guiding Principles Series
Series of Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue briefs published between July 2019 and March 2022 laying out guiding principles for a comprehensive national retirement policy. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/09/2022
Issue Brief
Issue Brief on Aligning Plan Design with Effective Employee Engagement
Retirement System Assessment and Policy Committee issue brief analyzing how retirement program design can impact decisions that participants make with the goal of improving retirement security. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 03/09/2022
Committee Publishes Issue Brief on Social Security Retirement Age
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief examining the potential effects of increasing the Social Security normal retirement age, which it has identified as likely to be a… DownloadDate Published: 03/01/2022
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. DownloadDate Published: 03/01/2022
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… DownloadDate Published: 02/11/2022
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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. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 12/22/2021
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. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 12/22/2021
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… Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 10/22/2021
Issue Brief
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… Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 10/22/2021
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… DownloadDate Published: 10/18/2021
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… DownloadDate Published: 10/18/2021
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… Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 10/15/2021
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. Download
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 10/15/2021
Council Releases Update of 80% Pension Funding Myth Issue Brief
The Pension Practice Council (PPC) published an issue brief, The 80% Pension Funding Myth, which addresses a persistent misconception that pension plan health or soundness can be determined solely by… DownloadDate Published: 10/06/2021
Committee Comments on Future Standard-Setting Agenda of the FASB
The Pension Committee submitted comments in response to the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) June 2021 solicitation of stakeholder feedback on its future standard-setting agenda. DownloadDate Published: 09/22/2021
Comment / Letter
Comment Letter to FASB on Future Standard-Setting Agenda
Pension Committee comment letter responding to Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) June 2021 Invitation to Comment on its future standard-setting agenda. DownloadDate Published: 09/22/2021
Issue Brief Examines 2021 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief on the 2021 Social Security Trustees Report examining the social insurance program’s long-term solvency issues. DownloadDate Published: 09/20/2021
Committee Publishes Issue Brief on COVID-19 Implications in Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief focusing on implications of COVID-19 reflected in the annual Trustees Reports from 2020 and 2021. DownloadDate Published: 09/20/2021
Issue Brief
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact on Social Security Issue Brief
Social Security Committee issue brief examining COVID-19 implications reflected in the annual Trustees Reports from 2020 and 2021. DownloadDate Published: 09/20/2021