Description: This is a summary of 1972 discussions about: 1. the past and future dynamics of North American retirement systems, 2. alternatives for pension legislation, and 3. actuarial principles and practices for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 2D, No. 68.

Description: Full version of Pension Section News, August 2002, Issue No. 49.

Description: This session discussion is about review of recent and pending legislation affecting pensions in Canada and the United States, restructuring of Canadian and U.S. pension plans as a consequence of tax reform and other pension legislation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses how the professional status of consulting actuaries is affected by marketing activities, relationships with agents, brokers and non-actuarial consultants, competition, performing non-actuarial services, client ownership position or board membership, and billing practices.

Description: Panel discussion from 1975 SOA Annual Meeting Bal Harbour. The discussion covered pension reporting requirements and fiduciary responsibilities.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting focuses on issues for smaller companies including expense analysis, adjusted earnings, variable annuities, agency operations, and interim financial statements.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the joint Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Meeting held April 10-11, 1978 in New York City. The panelists discuss a range of topics dealing with risk classification, including retirement benefit plan design considerations, the implications of the federal equal pay act and federal civil rights act, court decisions, possible effects of extension of age discrimination laws, and use of unisex tables, annuity contracts, the impact on health and disability insurance of pregnancy legislation in court decisions, and handicapped person legislation and regulations. Workmen's Compensation, individual life, and individual property and casualty coverages are also discussed. The panelists ask whether the Society of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society should be doing more research. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 4, No. 1.

Description: Background of the Manhart case on sex discrimination in pension rates, summary of the brief prepared for the case by an SOA task force, and text of a letter submitted to the court by SOA members critical of the brief.

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 paper attempts to reduce several variables to their bare minimum and to investigate how the cost of vesting depends upon those few that remain. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.