Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This pension seminar program discussed the various types of executive compensation plans with special emphasis on nonqualified deferred compensation plans and the associated accounting and actuarial issues. The primary discussion covered the different ways to try to secure these benefits without creating taxation.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This session covered cash-balance plans and age-weighted profit-sharing plans, which were the hottest products in 1992 in the pension arena. Areas covered included their primary attractions, legal concerns, and funding issues.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about current income replacement ratios for retirement planning. How much is enough? How should post-retirement health care benefits be reflected?

Description: This panel discussion examines demographics as it applies to public and private pension plans in the future.

Description: This panel discussion addresses the forces influencing the direction of growth in income products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 46PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the outlook over the next 10 years of employee benefits. The effect on the role of the actuary is discussed.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed changes in: Demographics and workforce composition, Lifestyles and attitudes, Cafeteria benefit programs, Defined contribution retirement plans, Health care.

Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of a changing environment on personal security programs. Some of the issues addressed include regulations, taxes, consumerism, Social Security, inflation, and age/sex composition of work force.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the following issues: What are the retirement needs of a population?, what are suitable methods of providing social insurance, private pensions,and savings?, what are the political, economic, and sociological implications of various solutions?, and what perspective on this problem does Canadian experience provide.