Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 18, 2021)

Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 11, 2021)

The spring issue of The Retirement Report covers the Pension Practice Council’s (PPC) recent “Hill visits”—virtual visits with federal officials and Capitol Hill offices discussing a number of key pension topics pertaining to Social Security, multiemployer pension plans, lifetime income, and retirement security. Also in the issue, recent PPC issue briefs, one on the security of pension plan benefits and another on pooled employer plans; webinars on Social Security, multiemployer plans, and risk-sharing plan designs, and recent state and federal legislative activity. (June 11, 2021)

The Actuaries Climate Index’s five-year moving average declined for the first time since 2017 but remains at an elevated level, the latest seasonal data update to the index showed. Read the news release. (June 08, 2021)

Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 04, 2021)

Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (May 28, 2021)

The May Actuarial Update covers the Nominating Committee’s selection of Ken Kent as the nominee to be the Academy’s next president-elect. His extensive Academy volunteer service has included vice president of professionalism and vice president of pension, and he is currently a member of the ABCD. Also in the issue, the deadline is June 25 for nominations for the Academy’s annual service awards; there’s still time to register for June’s PBR Boot Camp; Pension Practice Council members conduct Capitol “Hill Visits”; webinars examine health equity and life practice and COVID-19; and the “Professionalism Counts” column is a Q&A with several contributors to a new professionalism discussion paper. (May 28, 2021)

The Pension Practice Council published an issue brief considering mechanisms in place to help guarantee payment of pension plan participants’ earned benefits. (May 27, 2021)

The Committee on Professional Responsibility released a new professionalism discussion paper, Professionalism for the Solo Actuary. The ideas and suggestions offered in the paper are intended to assist solo practicing actuaries or actuaries practicing in small firms with respect to situations that they may encounter in providing actuarial services. (May 25, 2021)