Description: Article discussion information to included in an engagement letter and suggestions on how to negotiate them with clients.

Description: Full version of Pension Section News, Issue No. 61, April 2006.

Description: The Employee Retiree Income Security Act, or ERISA, establishes an important statutory role for pension actuaries in the United States. As part of its statutory goal to protect the retirement security of America’s workers, ERISA requires tax-qualified defined benefit plans to obtain an actuarial valuation of plan reserves each year. When valuing the plan’s reserves, the actuary is required by ERISA to act on behalf of plan participants. Thus, the plan actuary fulfills an important role in maintaining the plan’s ability to meet its on-going obligations to the plan participants and their beneficiaries. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: Article offers ideas on how actuaries in small firms can address theri litigation risk in rational, cost-effective ways.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews the codes of professional conduct and standards of practice and the professional obligations when practicing in various other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the impacts on preparing reserves and an Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum caused by differing reserve requirements in each state.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session presented the results of a survey of the U.S. actuarial profession conducted by the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the American Academy of Actuaries. This survey asked questions relating to the individual actuary's awareness of and familiarly with the Code of Professional Conduct, Actuarial Standards of Practice, and qualification standards, as well as understanding of the activities of the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the impacts of preparing reserves and an Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum caused by differing reserve requirements in each state.

Description: This presentation, session number 85PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The panelists review existing and pending Actuarial Standards of Practice as they relate to life insurance financial reporting in the United States. Other topics include the nature of reliance on ASOPs by statutory authorities, and the composition and processes of the Actuarial Standards Board, the body that establishes the ASOPs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session is about professional standards and the appointed actuary.