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 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: 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: 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 panel discussion from the SOA 1976 Houston Spring Meeting focuses on practical considerations in providing services under insured pension plans. The information is organized into home office considerations, field considerations, and external factors such as Enrolled Actuary certifications and outside vendors of pension services. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol.2, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.

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.

Description: This document is a summary of a presentation made at the 1975 SOA annual meeting discussing current and future trends with regard to: a Population and mortality, b Family structure, c Forms and role of government, d Economic forces including the saving process, productivity, and inflation., and e Public attitudes. The impact of these items on savings vs protection, individual versus pension, public versus private, pension product design, marketing and distribution and investment policy is discussed.