Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: This paper reports on the status of the Welfare Plan Disclosure Acts in states and plans subject to the law. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This is an article from The Actuary that discusses the need to reform defined benefit plans. The number of defined benefit plans in the United States has declined significantly over the past 20 years. If Congress overlooks the interests of plan sponsors in its reform, we're likely to witness further erosion of an already weakened defined benefit system, and America's workers would be the ultimate losers.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This session covers innovations in pension plan designs and participant options that are happening in a variety of settings.

Description: Interview with Sudipto Banerjee

Description: Read the September 2017 issue of Pension Section News published by the The Pension Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Book Review: Pension Plans and Public Policy. The authors bring a wealth of experience from their years at TIAA-Cref to this most lucid discussion of the relationship between public policy,social security, and private and public pension plans.

Description: This article provides a summary of the Pension and Employee Benefit Act of 1967 bill S.1103 introduced by Senator Javits of New York. If enacted, it would have far reaching implications.

Description: Discussion of the need to understand the implications of demographic and family diversity for the design of retirement programs. The design of retirement programs is a design of programs for the elderly, who are more often women, because women live longer and because their work histories often lead to reduced levels of pension and social security benefits.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.