Description: This white paper discusses the select research conducted by behavioral economists and other researchers on the increased individual involvement in planning for retirement within the context of a workplace retirement plan.

Description: This document presents the detailed results of a literature search performed during December 2009 - February 2010 to find resources for the report Complexity Science – An Introduction and Invitation for Actuaries.

Description: This is a research project discussing on the needs and opportunities of the older age market to be used in the development and distribution of products that will protect future retirees from financial risk.

Description: The author describes two papers that find that stock returns in the 15 days around the new moon are double the stock returns in the 15 days around the full moon. Is this true, even though psychological studies have established no causal link?

Description: Invites readers to submit topics on the theme of "This Time It's Different. Members will then be invited to submit essays for and against.

Description: This paper examines the social structures that are determining retirement for female Baby Boomers, and what can be done for these women to reflect the shift from shared responsibility to individual responsibility for retirement security. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: The abstract for a paper that focuses on when and how we retire.

Description: Why should actuaries care about non-quantitative considerations? We are the masters of accurate calculations, and our models should be based solely upon logic … right? Wrong! The touchy-feely holistic, irrational factors encountered so often in the real world, can wreak havoc upon a model that considers only rational logic. Our 2016 presidential election was a dramatic wake-up call to statisticians and actuaries that numbers alone are not always the determining factors in economic outcomes. Learn why this is true, and how you can adapt your models to better represent the real world, and gain competitive advantage.

Description: A summary of the driving forces behind, and effects of, the historical increases and future expectations of Generic Dispensing Rates.

Description: Introduces the new behavioral finance subgroup and talks about why such a subgroup is needed.