Description: Inspired by the 2023 Living to 100 Symposium, take an incisive look with us at the potential for increased healthy lifespans and the implications for retirement. Issues covered include housing, working longer, running out of money and other risks. Explore results from recent SOA-sponsored research, including a guide to making related decisions late in life. Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn more about the SOA Research Institutes' Aging and Retirement and Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Programs and to help shape future efforts. You will learn about the latest SOA research on living longer, some of the latest developments in aging research and the decisions individuals may face as they prepare for retirement.

Description: This article is based on a report titled Public Misconceptions About Retirement Security, which is a project of the Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks and jointly sponsored by LIMRA International, the Society of Actuaries and Mathew Greenwald & Associates. The report is found on the post-retirement needs and risks page, which is located here.

Description: This article provides a Retirement 20/20 update.

Description: The Retirement Section and Retirement Section Research Committee are pleased to make available a research report examining academic and practitioner research on low interest rates in the United States.

Description: Non-variable annuity principle-based reserving (PBR) VM-22 has a proposed effective date of January 1, 2026. The change in reserving standards may be impactful to annuity writers due to the transition from formulaic to principles-based reserves.

Description: This report summarizes thoughts and questions about the impact of COVID-19 on working in retirement, phased retirement and how the definition and timing of retirement may change. It provides a synthesis of the expert input mentioned above and offers background on related research results. It also describes other issues for further consideration. T

Description: This research summarizes interviews of individuals 85+ years old, looking at how habits and behaviors from earlier in life affect the later years of retirement.

Description: This report summarizes thoughts and questions raised during the conversation focused on the possible impact of COVID-19 on senior housing and related decisions that retirees and their families may need to make.

Description: 2024 is the 50th anniversary of ERISA and enough time has passed since the enactment of Secure 2.0. The U.S. Retirement system is mostly defined contribution. Gaps remain in U.S. Retirement Security and there are very different perspectives on how the system is doing. What is going well and what is not? Have plan sponsors capitalized on the opportunities in Secure 2.0?

Description: This article is an interview of two fraud experts who talk about the feedback on retirement fraud they received from surveying record keepers.