Description: This article talks about the future of Canada/Québec Pension Plans C/QPP and summarizes the Report of the Task Force on Social Security Financing. This reports compares the Canadian system to seven other social insurance systems and suggest four possible changes to the C/QPP that would reduce costs.

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: Discussion of Session 1B

Description: This paper will have as the primary purpose a discussion of economic security provisions in the USSR, both those on a compulsory governmental basis and those available to the individual on a voluntary basis. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

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: The purpose of this delightful and stimulating book is the identification of new products for the marketplace. Anyone interested in predicting the future should read it. The book surveys the batting average of futurists, which IS amazingly low. About 20 years ago, Herman Kahn predicted 100 changes that would occur by the end of the century.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on cost disclosure in individual life insurance. Areas covered included: 1. Status of NAIC model disclosure bill 2. Questions related to comparisons of costs and value of dissimilar policies 3. Characteristics of a good disclosure in a replacement situation 4. Developments in the use of the retention method

Description: This paper examines the development of inflation and the dilemma the life insurance business faces. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This discussion focuses on the effect the introduction of provincial hospital plans in Canada has had on the trend of loss ratios on associated major medical expense plans. The discussion further looks at deductible amounts, coinsurance provisions, and maximum limits used under major medical expense plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This article is the second of two parts the first published in the September, 1981 issue of The Actuary and provides a summary of the discussions which took place at Canada’s National Pension Conference. Topics discussed by delegates included the appropriate roles of both public and private sector pension plans in Canada.