Description: Describes changes to the detailed funding rules for defined benefit pension plans found in the regulations of the various federal and provincial acts in Canada.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the national commission on social security reform. Topics included: 1. Current financial status of the OASDI and HI programs short range and long range? 2. Options for solving the financing problems. 3. Goals of the NCSSR in solving these problems and recommendations determined to date. 4. General public understanding of the issues?

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, October 2002, Issue No. 40.

Description: Full version of International Section News, February 2003, Issue No. 29.

Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: This session discussion is about what constitutes the proper level of financing of retirement plans, objective of proper financing, different measures of funding status, risk related to inadequate financing, recent U.S. developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: The author presents his views on the funding of the French rail workers’ pension system.

Description: This was a panel discussion session on the economy. Thorough discussion of the unwise supply side economic theories which won't work to steer the economy to a more stable course in the 1980s relative to the 1970s.

Description: This article describes the author's experiences in implementing best practices in insurance regulation in Tanzania, outlining the challenges of the project.

Description: This articles describes the multi-pillar system of 1 pay as you go and 2 individual capital accounts to fund public pension plans which exists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.