Description: This session discussion is about setting retirement income goals and the ability meet them through various plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Review of Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System. The authors found it to be a concise well written report discussing a number of issues facing all pensions in an inflationary economy. Both the title and the dull format in the usual Government Printing Office style would seem to insure this document's instantaneous consignment to dead storage. However, behind the cover of this small pamphlet is a concise, well written report discussing-a-number of the issues facing not only federal pension programs at the present time, but all pensions in an inflationary economy. For example, several of the 11 pages devoted to the main report discuss the implications of static assumptions ignoring inflation as opposed to dynamic assumptions including inflation.

Description: This discussion is about current practices and focuses primarily on a paper currently being written by the Committee on Pension Principles and Related Research regarding interest rate selection. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: This session is about United States: Minimum funding requirements, Internal Revenue Service audit guidelines, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Financial Accounting Standards Board 87 Canada: Surplus contrivances tax reform, pension reform legislation, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Standards. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 2.

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.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses the paper 'Select and Ultimate Financial Assumptions In Pension Plan Valuations: An Analysis Of The Issues' by the Society's Committee on Pension Principles and Related Research - TSA Volume 37 1985. The paper addresses the pros and cons of select and ultimate assumptions.

Description: This discussion reviews benefit design, differences in funding methods and actuarial assumptions, political considerations and current studies and possible future legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 3.