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  • Pension Plan Mortality
    Pension Plan Mortality Presenters examine the current draft of the SOA Retirement ... Experience Committee's work on a new mortality table and study based only on uninsured pension plan experience ...

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    • Authors: Edwin Hustead, Ethan Kra
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Retiree Health Issues
    Retiree Health Issues This panel will present a discussion of retiree health issues with a special focus on current ... Assumptions;Funding policy;Medicare;Pension valuation; 17121 10/1/1995 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Robert J Barry, Ethan Kra, Fred C Lindgren, Dave Bond
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting; Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • Technical Concerns: Late-Breaking Pension Developments
    tax law and said, depending on the age of the annuitant, you just took your basis (typically, the employee ... you have two beneficiaries, they extended the table to include combined age of annuitants. This is ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Donald Segal, Mark Wintner
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Late-Breaking Regulatory Developments
    Late-Breaking Regulatory Developments 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. This session presented ... Act=ERISA;Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation=PBGC;Pension valuation; 18636 5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Donald Segal, DWAYNE CHESLEY JACOBSON
    • Date: May 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Pension Simplification: Defined-Benefit Plans
    go at least ten years over the lifetime of the individual. Plans are required to give an actuarial increase ... Whether that will take place depends on the individual. It does require very careful tax planning as ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, James A Hughes
    • Date: May 1997
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Postretirement Health Benefit Funding
    Employee contributions are accounted for in individual accounts. This is not so much to say when you ... eligible for retiree health care benefits, then the individual account will come into play, which would be received ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Adam J Reese
    • Date: Apr 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • The Pension Forum, December 2004, Volume 15, Issue No. 1
    Pension Forum Volume 15, Number 1 December 2004 Table of Contents PAGE Introduction to Yield Curve Forum ... Heidi Rackley, Steve Alpert, and Ethan Kra Valuation of Pension Obligations with Lump Sums 46 by Richard ...

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    • Authors: Stephen A Alpert, Ronald Iverson, Kenneth Kent, Ethan Kra, Richard Wendt
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Publication Name: The Pension Forum
  • Message From the IRS
    arrangement that directly or indirectly permits individual partners to vary the amount of contributions ... examinations encompass several plan years of individual taxpayers, perhaps 1986 but generally 1987 and ...

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    • Authors: James E Holland, Ethan Kra, Martin Slate
    • Date: Jun 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Public Policy
  • Addressing the Financial Risks from Retirement Systems Seminar: Changing Our Focus: Consulting About Risk
    management can yield a better long-term result than individual management, so that gets us to reconsider the ... same issue right now is that you’re buying high. Individual annuitization is incredibly expensive because ...

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    • Authors: William Gulliver, Ethan Kra, Thomas Terry, Daniel Cassidy
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Pensions & Retirement>Risk management
  • Plan Qualification/Registration Issues for Multinational Sponsors
    there’s no problem. The real issue arises when the individual comes to file his or her U.S. income tax return ... submitting Canadian tax filings with respect to the individual employees, calculating and reporting what are ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Glashan, Ethan Kra, Michael S Sirkin
    • Date: Jun 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives>Multinational companies; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation