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Retirement Income: Where’s the Innovation?

Pegasystems
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 07/12/2013
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Actuaries: Living Longer + Lack of Lifetime Income = Risky Business

WASHINGTON – June 19, 2013 – Actuarial projections show Americans living longer, but if they are truly to enjoy their retirement years, they need to look differently at their lifetime…
Date Published: 06/19/2013
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Can This Plan Avert a National Retirement Disaster?

Wall Street Cheat Sheet
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 06/06/2013
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Actuaries: 30 Years Later, It’s Time Again to Raise the Age for Full Social Security Retirement Benefits

WASHINGTON – May 23, 2013 – A generation ago, the 1983 Social Security Amendments, a bipartisan accord, was adopted to keep Social Security solvent by, among other things, raising the…
Date Published: 05/23/2013
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News Release: Actuaries Respond to President Obama’s Proposed Budget

WASHINGTON – April 11, 2013 – As policy makers debate changes to Social Security and Medicare in the 2014 federal budget proposed by President Obama, the nation’s actuaries urge them to…
Date Published: 04/11/2013
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News Release: Actuaries: Let Defined-Benefit Plans Raise Retirement Age to Align with Social Security

WASHINGTON – March 7, 2013 – Raising the maximum allowable normal retirement age in defined-benefit retirement plans would align U.S. pension policy more closely with Social…
Date Published: 03/07/2013
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State of the Union: Opportunity to Refocus on Sustainability Reforms, Not Just Budget Cuts

WASHINGTON – Feb. 11, 2013 – When President Obama talks about avoiding sequesters and reducing federal budget deficits during his State of the Union on Tuesday night, the American…
Date Published: 02/12/2013
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Chief Medicare Actuary Retires: Academy Applauds Foster’s Service to Public and Profession

WASHINGTON – 1 Feb. 2013 – The American Academy of Actuaries offered a heartfelt thank you to Richard S. Foster, who is retiring this week as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
Date Published: 02/01/2013
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Five Annuity Moves Raising the Stakes for Retirement

TD Ameritrade
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 09/06/2012
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American Academy of Actuaries Calls New Report on Pension Funding “Valuable Contribution” of Expertise

WASHINGTON (June 19, 2012)—The American Academy of Actuaries issued the following statement regarding a Society of Actuaries’ (SOA) report, Proposed Pension Funding Stabilization: How…
Date Published: 06/19/2012
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Comment / Letter

Comments to IAA on Proposed Guidelines for Social Security Programs

Workers’ Compensation Subcommittee letter to the International Actuarial Association (IAA) regarding draft IAA guidelines of actuarial practice for social security programs
Date Published: 09/27/2002
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Issue Brief

Applying the Defined Contribution Concept to Medicare: A Primer

Medicare Steering Committee issue brief providing a primer on two approaches to reforming Medicare – should it retain its current defined benefit approach (similar to that used by traditional…
Date Published: 07/01/2002
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Testimony

Congressional Testimony on Oversight Regarding Retirement Security and DB Pension Plans

Senior Pension Fellow testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight regarding retirement security and defined benefit pension plans.
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 06/20/2002
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Congressional Testimony on Oversight Regarding Retirement Security and DB Pension Plans

Senior Pension Fellow testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight regarding retirement security and defined benefit pension plans.
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 06/20/2002
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Comment / Letter

Comments to Congress on AHP Provisions in Patient Protection Legislation

Health Plan Work Group comments on the association health plan (AHP) provisions in Title IV, Subtitle B of the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (H.R. 2563), which would amend the Employee Retirement…
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 04/09/2002
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Presentation

Increasing Pension Coverage & Benefits and Preparing for Retirement

or Pension Fellow presentation to the ERISA Advisory Council on the topic of increasing pension coverage and preparing for retirement
Date Published: 07/17/2001
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Congressional Testimony on Efforts to Inform the Public About Social Security

Senior Pension Fellow’s testimony to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security regarding efforts to inform the public about Social Security.
Date Published: 04/11/2000
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Testimony

Congressional Testimony on Hybrid Pension Plans

Senior Pension Fellow testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding hybrid pension plan coverage.
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 09/21/1999
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Testimony on Surplus Pension Assets

Senior Pension Fellow’s testimony to an ERISA Advisory Council working group regarding the use of surplus pension assets.
Topics: Retirement
Date Published: 05/05/1999
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