Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers issues related to consulting actuaries including communication with various audiences, pension choices by employers, multiple employer plans, pension funding standards, individual life reinsurance, and product comparisons.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1 A discussion of the approaches and philosophies used by Canada and the United States: -- Purpose of solvency/current liability valuations -- Benefits and assumptions underlying solvency/current liability -- Conflicts between tax and security valuations -- Effects of these valuations upon plan sponsors (and actuaries)

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses maximizing shareholder value and techniques for business building. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 1.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.

Description: Discussed are some of the major effects of the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 in areas other than funding. Topics included are calculation of lump sums, 415 limits, creation of the missing participants program, elimination of the excise tax for some non deductible contributions, and changes in the variable rate program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss legislative and regulatory developments in the pension area which have occurred just prior to the meeting, and their effect on the pension practitioner. Topics include recent Internal Revenue Service [IRS] guidance on closing agreements for pension plans with tax compliance errors, including sanctions, rules relating to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and Internal Revenue Code [IRC] Section 404c, concerning pension plan investments. There was also some discussion on retiree health plans and Medicare. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: This presentation made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries addresses the following issues: proposed Audit Guide revision of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No.8 Comparability of pension costs on financial statements and Cost Accounting Standards Board proposal for pension cost under government contracts.