Description: This panel discussion examines a wide range of current topics about pension plans including proposed legislation around plan termination, proposed amendments to ERISA, rules about IRAs, IRS anti-discrmination rules and others. The role of the American Academy of Actuaries is discussed.

Description: This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Reports in Connection with Social Security Legislation 1975-77, 'Statement on Cost Comparisons of Individual Life Insurance Policies', by Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 'Investment Activities of Life Insurance Companies' from Huebner Foundation Lectures, 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma' by Johns, 'The Future of Social Security' by Munnell, 'Social Security - Today and Tomorrow' by Ball, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'The Crisis in Social Security - Problems and Prospects' by Boskin, 'A History of Interest Rates' by Homer, 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert Myers, 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Strain, '1978 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund...' by US Congress. Brief summaries of additional readings are also included.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about considerations in choosing interest assumptions and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.

Description: This article from The Actuary, May 1970,volume 4, Issue 5 Consulting actuaries from the United States and several foreign countries will be attending the biennial meeting of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries (IACA) this fall. On October 5, G and 7, consulting actuaries from the United States will meet in Washington, D.C. with their counterparts from a number of foreign countries, to discuss the development of government and private pension plans and insurance plans throughout the world.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

Description: This discussion is about retirement plans and interest assumptions in valuation of pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14 pt 2

Description: This discussion is about the basic information on adoption of retirement plan. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 PT 2

Description: This paper contains three discussions. The first is about recent developments in health insurance programs in the United States and Canada. The second discussion is about the Society and how it can provide services to its members and the public. The third discussion is on life insurance company management. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50 AB

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Preston C. Bassett. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Independence of the actuary, 2. Problems posed by United States pension legislation, 3. Registered equity products, including variable life insurance, variable annuities, and mutual funds, 4. Limits to growth, and 5. Maintenance of high standards in a profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.