Description: This is a panel discussion session focusing on the pension plan sponsor's funding policy including examining alternate uses of cash selection of actuarial cost method selection of actuarial assumptions use of projections and effect of investment strategy on funding policy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session covered the goals of peer review programs, types of peer view, and practical issues such as the level of detail in peer review, what to peer review, types of documentation, and legal issues.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of indexed guaranteed separate accounts, typically issued to defined-benefit pension plans. Contract terms, risks, marketing, financial reporting, reserves, and investment strategies are discussed. Risk-based capital and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Regulation for Separate Accounts with Guarantees are also discussed. A hypothetical indexed separate account is analyzed for return on capital and economic risk.