Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing PBGC Annuity Valuation Rates.

Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, and the SEC's scrutiny of annuities and Guaranteed Investment Contracts.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing OBRA 87 Midterm Applicable Federal Interest Rates.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing the interest rates and Consumer Price Index figures needed for calculating Canadian pension plan Transfer Values.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Canadian Government benefits data.

Description: This article provides a review of the single-employer funding rules under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 'PPA,' reflecting regulatory guidance through December 2007. The discussion does not cover special issues for hybrid plans and does not consider at-risk calculations or benefit restriction rules.

Description: Defined benefit plans have been disappearing from the private sector retirement program landscape. 401k Plans that have taken their place are not designed to provide retiree lifetime income. Individuals seldom work for a single employer and thus have many retirement accounts spread about. This commentary discusses an alternative approach to providing retirement income a voluntary basis in a vehicle that is decoupled from employers.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Digest of Informal Discussion’ addresses current developments and proposals with respect to Social Security legislation in the United States and Canada, and individual retirement legislation.