Description: This 1978 session focused on valuation techniques for pension plans. Topics covered: 1. Asset Valuation Methods 2. Use of projections and forecasts 3. Has application of forecasts allowed the actuary to determine short range best estimate of future costs different from traditional methods? 4. Treatment of salary scales, turnover assumptions, retirement decrements

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session examines both the rules and practitioners' experience in implementing rules enacted with GATT: reportable events, PBGC notification of financial status, participant notification for underfunded plans.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to mathematical principles applicable to pension funding under dynamic conditions of population growth, inflation, and automatic adjustment of benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about concerns of the IRS and of the actuarial profession.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses minimum pension funding rules under GATT, aka the Retirement Protection Act.

Description: This meeting session presentation and discussion occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was retirement income security in Canada. Specific discussions included: the role of government plans, efforts to improve portability, indexing of private and government plans, funding requirements and how they have developed, disclosure regulations, mandatory retirement ages and mandatory plans, Saskatchewan legislation, human rights regulations, and recommendations of the Lazar Report. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This panel from the 1977 SOA Meeting focuses on pension services to clients including pension plan investments, funding methods, plan administration, and new services that may be provided in the future.

Description: The presenters will provide an update on discount rates developed from the expected return on assets used in going concern pension funding. They will include recent research on discount rates being used for U.S. public sector plans, U.S. Multiple Employer Pension Plans, and Ontario and British Columbia plans. A discussion of the emerging regulatory framework in Canada and the U.S. and changes to ASOP 4 and 27 will also be covered. Components of discount rates such as expenses and margins (PfADs) will also be covered.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] overview of new minimum-funding rules in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act [OBRA] effective during the 1988 plan year, including Section 412[l] rules in particular, [2] maximum-funding rules, illustrated by a case study, and [3] implications of these rules that impact funding for 1988 and 1989. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This session is about United States: Minimum funding requirements, Internal Revenue Service audit guidelines, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Financial Accounting Standards Board 87 Canada: Surplus contrivances tax reform, pension reform legislation, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Standards. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 2.