Description: This paper gives the new Railroad Retirement Board standards, called the '1962 RRB Mortality Table for Women' and the '1962 RRB Remarriage Table' and describes their construction.

Description: This discussion explores advanced funding of pension benefits under public employee retirement plans and if annual reports to participants under public employee retirement plans should include information as to the financial operation of the plan. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: Abstract of the paper which explores some characteristics of pension plans that affect the type and amount of investment risk a government-sponsored pension plan can afford.

Description: Author response to Eric Friedman’s comments on ‘The Case for Stochastic Present Values,” by Dimitry Mindlin

Description: A response and rejoinder to comments made by Messrs. Moore and Hallmark on "Communicating the Health of Public Pension Plans"

Description: The article and guidebook of the same name use a stochastic simulation model to examine potential impacts of public pension plan risk-sharing policies on government employers and plan members. Policies examined include simple policies such as COLAs and employee contributions that are contingent upon investment returns or funded ratios, and more-complex policies similar to those used in the Wisconsin Retirement System.

Description: Chapter 4 discusses a range of actuarial issues associated with DROPs. From Design and Actuarial Aspects of Deferred Retirement Option Programs, M-RS03-2.

Description: This paper is directed principally at the broad question of financing the fifteen federal retirement systems which cover various classes of federal employees. Additionally included is a discussion of the paper with comments from a number of actuaries and the author's review of the discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 46.

Description: Discusses the Survivor Benefit Plan SBP for the Uniformed Services from an actuarial perspective.

Description: Attendees learn how the public sector bargaining process works and learn the role of the actuary in that process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 29pd.