American Academy of Actuaries

Public Policy Monograph: Social Security Reform Options

The following Social Security Issue Briefs are available at the American Academy of Actuaries.

An Actuarial Perspective on the 2008 Social Security Trustees' Report

Social Security: Evaluating the Structure for Basic Benefits

Women and Social Security

A Guide to the Use of Stochastic Models in Analyzing Social Security

An Actuarial Perspective on the 2007 Social Security Trustees Report

Social Security Reform:  Changes to the Benefit Formula and Taxation of Benefits

Assumptions Used to Project Social Security's Financial Condition

Social Adequacy and Individual Equity in Social Security

Means Testing for Social Security

Social Security Individual Accounts:  Design Questions

Raising the Retirement Age for Social Security

Social Security Reform:  Voluntary or Mandatory Individual Accounts?

Automatic Adjustments to Maintain Social Security's Long-Range Actuarial Balance

Quantitative Measures for Evaluating Social Security Reform Proposals

Annuitization of Social Security Individual Accounts

Investing Social Security Assets in the Securities Markets

Conference of Consulting Actuaries

International Actuarial Association

Society of Actuaries

Analysis of the Divergence Characteristics of Actuarial Solvency Ratios Under the Three Official Deterministic Projection Assumption Sets for the United States Social Security System
Kenneth G. Buffin
2002 Actuarial Research Conference, University of Waterloo

Application of a Linear Regression Model to the Proactive Investment Strategy of a Pension Fund
Kenneth G. Buffin
2001 Actuarial Research Conference, Ohio State University

Global Investment Risk Management
Kenneth G. Buffin
November 1998

The US Social Security System: Solvency and Sustainability
Kenneth G. Buffin
November 2002

Privatization of US Social Security: What Are the Real Issues?
Kenneth G. Buffin
July 2005

International Actuarial Association response to World Bank Report
on Old-Age Income Support in the Twenty-first Century

(Click here for the accompanying PowerPoint presentation)
Kenneth G. Buffin
May 2006

Stochastic Projection Methods for Social Security Systems
Kenneth G. Buffin
May 2007

Address to the Actuarial Society of South Africa on Social Security Reform
Kenneth G. Buffin
August 2007