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  • Two Score and Ten Years of Pensions
    Two Score and Ten Years of Pensions Panelists discuss the evolution of U.S. pension benefits, ... plans;Employee Retirement Income Security Act=ERISA;Individual retirement accounts=IRA;Social Security; 17916 ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, Robert Byrne, William David Smith, Kenneth Steiner
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement
  • An Actuary Reads the Newspaper. What's Between the Lines?
    We've gotten through the first round of actuarial valuation since the bond issue. Milliman & Robertson (M&R) ... were revalued from a five-year moving average valuation method to market value. That was a one-shot ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, Robert D Baus, Application Administrator, James Murphy, Robert J Curry
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Health & Disability; Pensions & Retirement
  • Recent Trends in Retirement Benefits Design
    government entity or plan to tract a tax basis for the individual. We've talked some about disclosure and communication ... Well, I think you can set up a fairly sensible table that shows somebody how much they would have to ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, David W Riddell, Paul J Rusin
    • Date: Oct 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Plan design
  • Professional Ethics
    very early drafting. We want to have a liability valuation cost methods standards as a separate entity and ... ASOP No. 4. We also want to have actuadal asset valuation methods in a separate standard. Then when that ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, James Murphy
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Pensions & Retirement
  • Selecting Actuarial Assumptions
    "Selection of Interest Assumptions for Pension Plan Valuation" (461-23-89), that involved choosing actuarial ... committee. The committee comprises very strong individual thinkers, and trying to get a consensus out of ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, Kenneth Steiner, Ed Tittley
    • Date: Oct 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Public interest representation
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • The Actuarial Standards Board ASB Proposed Standard for Pension Economic Assumptions
    different, but it seemsto me that talking about the individual parts is the only way you can make any sense ... saidyou change it every year. Every time you do a valuation,you change the interest rate. You change it - ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, Richard Wendt
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 9 Editorial - Thoughts From A Consulting Pension Actuary
    actuary and the non-actuary user of pension valuation reports would find information on pension actuaries' ... processes in selecting economic assumptions for valuation purposes useful. The technical material in the ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams
    • Date: Nov 1992
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
  • Opinion 8 And Adjusted Earnings
    34 63 Interested parties could recast the table to get the probability of ruin for specific sales ... unnecessary risk changes emerge as additional profit. The table below illustrates expected extra profit as a percenmt ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams
    • Date: Oct 1969
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • What The ASB Means To The Profession
    What The ASB Means To The Profession Editorial on the importance of the Actuarial Standards Board ... was a senior associate actuary in actuarial valuation. He has a master's degree in mathematics from ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams
    • Date: Sep 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
  • Smaller Consulting Firm Section, June 2005, Issue No. 8
    Smaller Consulting Firm Section, June 2005, Issue No. 8 Full version of Smaller Consulting ... determine how any of these principles apply in any individual circumstance and under a particular state’s law ...

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    • Authors: Mary Hardiman Adams, Ian G Duncan, David Miller, Ruth Ann Woodley, Ken Lizotte, David S Rintoul, Michael Oleksak
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Publication Name: The Independent Consultant