Framework for Future Defined Contribution Design

By Society of Actuaries · 2025 · RET101-100-25

Study guide: Exam RET-101

SOA study note RET101-100-25, titled Framework for Future Defined Contribution Design, supplied for the SOA's RET 101 Retirement Plan Design course. The SOA course strategy guide says it is a new reading written specifically for RET 101, to help the candidate understand how the changes to DC design of the last 20 or so years fit into a broader effort to improve retirement outcomes for DC participants, and that it highlights remaining gaps and gives thoughts on how they might be closed.

On the syllabus

• Exam RET-101 — RET101-100-25; Outcomes 1a, 1b. The SOA course strategy guide says it is a new reading written specifically for RET 101, to help the candidate understand how the changes to DC design of the last 20 or so years fit into a broader effort to improve retirement outcomes for DC participants, and that it highlights remaining gaps and gives thoughts on how they might be closed.

Contents unavailable No copy of this study note is published online and no catalogue contents could be found; the SOA supplies it with the course study notes. This page records its citation and assignment from the syllabus and the course strategy guide.

Sources

• RET 101 Introductory Study Note, Nov 2026/Mar 2027/Jul 2027 (SOA) — the study-note code RET101-100-25 and its title; the study notes name no author and no date, so the SOA is given as the issuing body and the year is the one in the code's suffix
• RET 101 Course Strategy Guide, Nov 2026/Mar 2027/Jul 2027 (SOA) — what the SOA says the reading covers
• RET 101 Syllabus, Nov 2026/Mar 2027/Jul 2027 (SOA) — the reading and its learning outcomes