Description: This meeting session presentation and discussion occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was retirement income security in Canada. Specific discussions included: the role of government plans, efforts to improve portability, indexing of private and government plans, funding requirements and how they have developed, disclosure regulations, mandatory retirement ages and mandatory plans, Saskatchewan legislation, human rights regulations, and recommendations of the Lazar Report. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This study explores whether public pension plans have contributed enough to reduce unfunded liabilities, absent other influences such as investment returns.