Description: This article provides an update on Department of Labor's fiduciary regulation for retirement plans/investors focusing on a July 2017 request for information.

Description: This article provides insights from the 2017 PSCA annual meeting and the Pension Research Council symposium on current pension system issues and solutions.

Description: Discussion of private letter tax rulings on the definition of Cash Surrender Value for purposes of interpreting the definition of life insurance for the policyholder's taxation of the contracts.

Description: The article discusses what actuaries mean by "acting in the public interest." While the article is focused on the U.S. environment, it includes materials describing how other actuarial organizations are addressing this critical issue. The article concludes with observations that explaining to the public what the actuarial profession means by "acting in the public interest" is important for both the public and the members of the U.S. actuarial profession.

Description: Description of program parameters for next year.

Description: Summary of changes in Social Security program parameters effective in 2018

Description: Commentary from section chair

Description: Discussion of the Italian Life Insurance Market including the related public policy changes to the country's social security plan and pension plans

Description: A discussion of pension reform in China at the time of the July 1997 introduction of a new unified pension system.

Description: Discussion of the Clearinghouse Scholarship Program, which matches low income candidates in developing countries where SOA exams are administered with potential corporate or individual sponsors.