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Accounting Standards for Pension and Employee Benefits Around the World
Ten years ago, only one country in the world, the U.S., had any meaningful or specific requirements for ... accounting for retirement benefit costs. And in the U.S., that standard was APB Opinion Number 8. It was ...- Authors: David Healy, Robert Heitzman, Gareth Richard Williams
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Global Perspectives; Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting; Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
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The Dilemma for Mutual Companies
fuel to the regulatory fire. The savings and loan (S&L) and banking failures also impacted us because of ... When we met in the fall with Standard & Poor's (S&P), they basically indicated an AA minus rating which ...- Authors: Albert Easton, Joan E Herman, Thomas Moloney, Harry D. Garber
- Date: May 1993
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Global Perspectives; Life Insurance
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The Media, Business and Global Financial Services
suburban Washington for $650 million. This summer U.S. West made a $2.5 billion investment in Time Warner ... acceleration, but it's very significant for the U.S. economy as a whole. Because we are, indeed, the ...- Authors: Myron Kandel
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Global Perspectives
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Revolution in Technology
that fully 60% of all the productivity gains in the U.S. economy in manufacturing during the mid-1980s - ... more computer scientists than the year before. The U.S. ended the 1980s with three times the computer power ...- Authors: Christian J DesRochers, Thomas Marra, George Gilder
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Global Perspectives; Public Policy; Technology & Applications
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International Job Opportunities
concern. Our section has done some surveys here in the U.S. and the results of the surveys, the summa- ries ... Barry Watson. Although we think of Barry as being a U.S. actuary, he's really from Canada, so we can truthfully ...- Authors: Linda M Kahn, Catherine Prime, Roy E Brimblecombe, Charles Barry H. Watson
- Date: Apr 1994
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Global Perspectives
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How the Changing International Environment Affects our Economy
consultant to the Federal Reserve System and to the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. President Nixon invited him ... new Germany, into Switzerland, into the U.K. The U.S. dollar is sinking in relation to all of these other ...- Authors: Allan Affleck, James Schlesinger
- Date: Oct 1990
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Economics>Macroeconomics; Global Perspectives
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Health Care Financing Systems Around the World
program for our meetings. This reminds me of what one U.S. surgeon general said. She said that, for health ... political CPA fund. l forget how many billions of U.S. dollars-probably $90 or $100 billion- were lost ...- Authors: Chiu-Cheng Chang
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Economics>Health economics; Global Perspectives; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy