Description: This article discusses the highlights of the 11th Conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries conference held in Munich, Germany on July 3-8, 1988.

Description: A summary of the first public conference of the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities, held in Quebec, June 11-12, 1975. The Association is composed of representatives of government bodies which administer legislation governing private pension plans in Canada.

Description: This editorial is a rejoinder to a letter signed by 346 Society members that protests the action of the Board of Governors that implemented an experiment to grant credit toward Society membership for achieving a certain standard in accredited college courses for specified subjects.

Description: In the November 1988 issue of The Actuary I commented on a letter signed by several hundred Society members protesting the Board decision to award credit for some early Society examinations to candidates with sufficient standing in appropriate college or university courses. My comment was that opposition to this idea appeared to reflect the widespread but far from universal self-satisfaction with the status quo within our profession.

Description: Actuary readers are familiar with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which was established under ERISA in 1974 to administer the benefits of terminated employee pension plans in the United States and to operate an “insurance” plan intended to protect the benefits of participants in such plans from inadequate funding. This article explains similar programs in Germany and Canada.

Description: Discusses the general concerns about the time it takes a person to achieve associateship under the new Flexible Education System, FES.