Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on mergers and acquisitions discussed the impact of pensions, post-retirement costs and fringe benefits on acquisitions as well as the special problems that arise when the parties in a transaction are globally diverse.

Description: This is a discussion on Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans SERPs. The regulations involved are addressed as well as the complexities of designing and administering SERPs. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This session of the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Houston presented a panel discussion on issues related to Individual Retirement Accounts IRA in the U.S. and RRSPs in Canada. Topics included: 1. which products have proved successful, 2. regulation problems that have developed, 3. Taxation problems, 4. Rollover problems, 5. Problems with increases, 6. Competition from other financial institutions, 7. Applicability of new money rates, and 8. Long- term interest guarantees.

Description: This panel discussion from the 1977 SOA Meeting examines the growing magnitude and scope of pension services to clients.This panel discussion from the 1977 SOA Meeting focuses on the growing magnitude and scope of pension services to clients including pension plan investments, funding methods, plan administration, and new services that may be provided in the future.

Description: This panel discussion looks at individual tax qualified products. The areas addressed include regulatory developments, products being used, the effect of volatile money markets on product design, variations in assumptions by market, variations in results by market, defined benefit HR10, spousal IRAs, and Canadian RRSP's.

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 a panel discussion focused on asset/liability projections and cash flow analysis of pension plans.

Description: This session from the 1976 Spring SOA Meeting is about current IRA and RRSP developments, products that proved successful, regulation problems that have developed, taxation problems, rollover problems, commissions on increases and competition from other financial institutions.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting discusses the effects of a merger or acquisition on employee benefit programs from actuarial and legal viewpoints.