Description: This panel discussion focuses on the funding of public employee retirement plans.

Description: This discussion reviews benefit design, differences in funding methods and actuarial assumptions, political considerations and current studies and possible future legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 3.

Description: This article discusses the U.S. military retirement system, an unfunded non-contributory defined-benefit plan, and the legislative proposal that would convert the system to an entry-age-normal funding method.

Description: This article reviews the proposed new accounting standards for pensions for governmental plans. From the Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: A summary of learnings about multiemployer and public plans. Encouraging all retirement actuaries to become better educated on the various sectors of the retirement industry. Take time to meet actuaries from other sectors to learn about their experiences and challenges. We’ll all benefit when we have a better understanding of each other and focus on areas of common concern rather than our differences

Description: This research, based on data from regulatory filings in Ontario, with supplementary information from British Columbia and the United States, examines funding valuation discount rates.

Description: Attendees learn how the public sector bargaining process works and learn the role of the actuary in that process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 29pd.

Description: Update to the SOA's longitudinal analysis of contributions among state-based and large-city pension plans in the U.S.

Description: Feature article discussing the changes France made to its pension systems in 2010, with some history.

Description: Presented for discussion are two research reports: Public Employee Retirement Plans Research: Experience Studies, Valuation Reports and Unfunded Liabilities, and Pension Plan Termination in Ontario since 1988. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.