Description: This 1981 discussion session covers Government and Pension Reports, in particular, reports from the U.S. President's Commission on Pension Policy, the National Commission on Social Security, the Canadian Lazar Report, and the Report of the Ontario Royal Commission on Pensions. This discussion also covers the implications of these reports for the pension business in the United States and Canada.

Description: This session discussion is about the national retirement income policy. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This presentation made at the SOA 1975 New York meeting highlights the passage of ERISA and points up the desirability of formulating principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation. A committee of the American Academy of Actuaries is in the process of developing principles and practices.

Description: The title for this session is a little ambiguous. The panelists do not say much about the ins and outs of how to tax retirement income plans. Rather, they talk about why tax policy works as it does and how it relates to pension policy. It becomes evident from the discussion that pension policy and tax policy are hard to separate. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This session discussion is a review proposals to modify the plan termination provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Current projections of the corporate funding problems and the alternatives under consideration will be included. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session was about the effectiveness of the 1987 minimum funding changes and the tools that PBGC used in the legislative development process.

Description: This panel discussion from the 1979 SOA Spring Meeting examines mergers and acquisitions from the perspective of the pension plans of the acquiring and acquired companies including financial and accounting considerations, the determination of the liability and design considerations.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss the future, if any, of defined-benefit pension plans, and whether they have been “legislated” out of existence, in particular the role of the Internal Revenue Service as the primary regulator of pension plans. From the Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: Discussion of the laws and regulations of the IRS, Department of Labor, and PBGC with regard to pension plans that are in effect but often overlooked by practitioners.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about pension reform in Canada from three different perspectives- From the government point of view, from the point of view of private plan sponsors, and from the point of view of financial institutions.