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November/December 2008

Remaking Social Security From the Ground Up

We asked four pension actuaries, knowing what they know today, to redesign Social Security from scratch. Here’s what they came up with.
by Linda Mallon

The Post-Millennial Metamorphisis in Life Underwriting

Major changes in screening protocols are necessary if life insurance is going to remain a player in the financial services revolution.
by Hank George and Tia Goss Sawhney

Tough Medicine
Apportioning the True Cost of Health Care

People need to be responsible for funding their own health expenditures to the extent that they can. Nothing else can stop the continuing upward spiral in health care costs.
by Dennis Barry

A Fragile Equilibrium:
The Past, Present, and Future of Private Pensions

The seeds for the current decline in private-sector defined benefit pensions were sown at their inception. Is there hope for regeneration.
by David Madland

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