The Buffin Foundation
& Buffin Partners, Inc.
InterAmerican Development Bank
International Labour Organization
International Social Security Association
by Kenneth G. Buffin
Analysis of the Divergence Characteristics of Actuarial Solvency Ratios Under the Three Official Deterministic Projection Assumption Sets for the United States Social Security System
2002 Actuarial Research Conference, University of Waterloo
Application of a Linear Regression Model to the Proactive Investment Strategy of a Pension Fund
2001 Actuarial Research Conference, Ohio State University
Global Investment Risk Management
November 1998
The US Social Security System: Solvency and Sustainability
November 2002
Privatization of US Social Security: What Are the Real Issues?
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)
May 2006
Stochastic Projection Methods for Social Security Systems
May 2007
Address to the Actuarial Society of South Africa
on Social Security Reform
August 2007
Pensions Benefits & Social Security:
Influence of the UN and its Agencies
December 2008
Observations on the financing of the United States Social Security System
International Conference of Social Security Actuaries and Statisticians May 2012
Kenneth Buffin is co-author of the following Social Security Monograph and Issue Briefs published by the American Academy of Actuaries:
Public Policy Monograph: Social Security Reform Options
An Actuarial Perspective on the 2008 Social Security
Trustees' Report
Social Security: Evaluating the Structure for Basic Benefits
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