Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting covers selecting a pension fund investment manager, when it may be appropriate to use a consultant in the process, what to look for in a consultant and the process of selecting the investment manager. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses how investment policies and strategies for pension funds are often developed independently of liability considerations. This session looks at the probable mismatch of asset and liability cash flows, the extent of problem, the actuarial concern with certification of assets and structuring the fund to recognize the relationship between assets and liabilities.

Description: Discussion of the ways the volatility of the full funding limitation can be used as a consulting opportunity. Discussion of smoothing cash flow in the current regulatory environment and cash-flow forecasting in a volatile market.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses defined benefit issues including flexible funding methods, plan design, ad hoc arrangements and formal funding objectives. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session covered the SEC letter on FAS 87, discount rates analyzing the current yield curve, matching bond portfolios to benefit payments, selection of salary scale, selection of return on assets, update on ASB proposed standards, and the relationship, if any, of funding assumptions to accounting assumptions.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the current developments on the Unisex rating issue including judicial, statutory, political, regulatory and the future outlook. It also looks at the blending approaches to represent unisex factors and the impact of the Norris decision on TIAA-CREF.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting looks at the use of variable economic assumptions for pension plans including variable investment returns, variable pay increase assumptions and the amortization of the unfunded actuarial liability. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This session covers the future of defined benefit pension plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session focuses on the new types of defined-benefit plans: cash balance, pension equity, life cycled, etc. The issues covered include the regulatory environment, funding and accounting issues, and benefit adequacy.

Description: This meeting session was conducted at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Houston. The topic was an ERISA update related to insured pension plans. Topics presented included: value of Enrolled Actuary vs. FSA, the American Academy of Actuaries position on the EA vs FSA, funding assumptions, actuarial certifications, and special valuation problems.