Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: This discussion looks at the actuary shortage and solutions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This is the presidential address given by former President of the Society of Actuaries, Pearce Shepherd. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: With the tremendous growth of the private pension institution since 1940, it is inevitable that an institution of this magnitude should come under critical scrutiny by both public and private bodies. This is a panel discussion about major policy issues in private pensions in the United States and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 52.

Description: Relative to group medical plans, discusses: recognition given to effect on morbidity of various demographic factors, consideration given to inflation in making rate guarantees, consideration given to group size, and underwriting transfer cases.

Description: This discussion looks at problems encountered in putting new underwriting standards into effect, looks at trends in the current economic situation which are taken into consideration in underwriting the financial aspects of a risk, and the results of comparisons between the mortality experience under uninspected business with that under inspected business.

Description: This is a discussion about medical care insurance rating including morbidity, impact of group size and underwriting transfer cases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 2, No. 47 AB

Description: This discussion looked at the recent mortality experience under term insurance plans before and after conversion, as well as evidence of a reversion to the experience of the 1920's and early 1930's in the mortality on large risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This paper examines the development of inflation and the dilemma the life insurance business faces. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.