Description: This presentation discusses pension plans provided by U.S. multinational companies, and focuses on issues such as nondiscrimination rules, how the plan benefits compare to those of other countries, benefit indexing and what happens when an employee transfers to another country. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation starts with a panelist discussing three frameworks that exist in the asset allocation area: The asset only framework, the asset-liability framework, and the asset-liability-sponsor framework. The panelist then explains why he believes that the asset-liability-sponsor is the only correct framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation is about recent developments in federal regulation of pension investments including, the Department of Labor Enforcement Program, legislative initiatives to tax pension funds, social initiatives for pension assets and other late developments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about nonqualified plan issues including funding, Secular Trusts, Rabbi Trusts, trends in plan design, and ERISA excess plans.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: This presentation from the 1998 Actuarial Research Conference is about about retirement plans in the late 1990's. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1999, Vol. 1.

Description: This session from the 1976 Fall SOA meeting is about pension plan problems of state, provincial and local governments included topics are differences between public and private plans, in particular the funding difficulties of the New York City pension plan.

Description: This 1978 discussion session focuses on pension plans with 10 to 50 lives. It covers the funding vehicles, insurance contracts, and the actuarial and administrative services applicable to such plans.

Description: Proposals and ideas are discussed with regard to pension accounting standards. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, 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.