Description: Discusses a report prepared by Frank Kleiler for the US Department of Labor on a survey he conducted of the Canadian pension situation. Includes both the private and public pension systems.

Description: A report on the findings a committee established by the government of Quebec to evaluate the respective roles of public and private pension plans in providing financial security for the elderly.

Description: A review of the last 50 years, concluding that the insurance industry in Canada has been slow to react to consumers' shift in focus from long-term security to rate of return.

Description: This article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, provides references to three notes: 1. Benefit Loads in Relation to Coverage and Reserves for Railroad Retirement and Other Major Retirement and Social Insurance Plans. 2. Two Decades oj Employee Benefit Plans, 1950- 70. 3. Social Security Programs throughout the World.

Description: Book review: Value of Pensions in Divorce by Marvin Snyder is described as a 'comprehensive treatise' geared to the non-actuary.

Description: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has developed a data bank containing information about pensions and changing prices, extracted from 1,100 companies’ annual reports.

Description: This article discusses index-linked securities, in light of the recent “Inquiry into the Value of Pensions” a committee set up by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher “to consider the value of the differences in inflation protection of private pensions and job security, comparing those for civil servants with others.” The committee endorsed index-linked pensions for civil servants and private sector, and as a result the U.K. government issued index-linked bonds for the use of pension plans.

Description: In response to the large volume of acquisitions in recent years, many corporations have implemented defensive measures to make themselves less desirable acquisition targets. A number of techniques involving employee benefits programs can be part of a corporation’s anti-takeover posture. These techniques generally attempt to accomplish imposing a new, significant liability, or cash commitment on the hostile bidder, or placing a block of stock in “friendly” hands.

Description: Book review: Demography and Retirement in the 21st Century by Anna M. Rappaport and Sylvester J. Schieber. Congratulations are given to the editors and the pension Research Council for presenting important questions and discussions about our future.

Description: This article is the first of two parts - the second part published in the December, 1981 issue of The Actuary - and provides a summary of Canada’s National Pension Conference. The author of this article, a participant at the conference, notes that the prevailing view in Canada is that the government and employer, not the employee, jointly share the responsibility of providing financial security in old age.