Description: This session was presented at the June 1980 SOA meeting in San Diego. The session outlined principles of pension plan design with emphasis on small 1-49 lives United States plans. Topics covered included: 1. Types of plans available 2. Considerations of corporate objectives and financial capabilities 3. Factors affecting normal retirement benefits, and 4. Ancillary benefit provisions. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Description: This 1982 discussion session is about the design of pension plan benefits under inflationary conditions. Specifically it covers: 1. Measuring the reduction of purchasing power and retirement income needs, 2. Cost implications of alternative means of financing pension adjustments after retirement, and 3. Public policy issues involved in the design of indexed benefits.

Description: Summary: Panelists discuss considerations in the design of retirement programs in the United States and Canada. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion covers early retirement incentive programs, also known as early retirement windows, at an elementary level. The topics discussed include design issues, communicating effectively, determining cost, ensuring success, and pitfalls. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists discuss the manner in which retirement plans have been used to achieve specific corporate objectives and how these plans satisfied the perceived needs of specific groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This is a discussion about steps that have been taken to revise or supplement company retirement plan benefits to recognize higher salary scales and living costs currently prevailing with respect to: 1. recently or currently retiring employees, and 2. long range future retirements. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Description: This meeting session was presented at the SOA's 1980 Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The session outlined characteristics of pension plan design with emphasis on Canadian Pension Plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1980 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 29-30 in Minneapolis. The panelists discuss the nature of current criticisms of risk classification practices, implications of recent court decisions - Manhart and TIAA-CREF, and the potential adverse implications of eliminating some common classification variables. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 6, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the issues that will affect pension plan design in the future including economic, demographic, regulatory, tax, and employment factors.

Description: Panel provides an analysis of legal and actuarial issues which must be considered when modifying an existing retirement program, including the new hybrid plan designs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.