Description: This session discussion is about postretirement health benefit funding, leveraged corporate-owned life insurance, trust-owned life insurance, settlement contracts, 401h and pension plan asset transfer. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussed the computer buzzwords such as expert systems, object orientation, artificial intelligence,software engineering, open systems, fuzzy logic, image, EDI, GUI, CASE, and database management system. Then it addressed what actuaries think about some of the latest technologies.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting describes new technological projects that have been implemented including telecommuting and supporting distributed workers, Lotus Notes, Excel, PC based benefit administration systems and ISDN. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session three panelists related recent personal experiences with respect to emerging trends in hardware, software, and methodologies.

Description: This article summarizes the Retirement Systems Practice Area Advanced Technology Working Group Report. Formed to project developments in technology and their applications, the Advanced Technology Working Group’s goal was to improve all aspects of Society of Actuaries services for its members in the retirement systems practice area. Although the emphasis was on pension actuaries, many ideas are equally applicable to other areas.