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: This panel discussion examines the valuation problems, funding methods, valuing ancillary benefits, and fluctuations in experience of small pension plans.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on pension products focusing on markets, distribution systems and differing viewpoints on products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 1

Description: This discussion examines non-traditional pension plan terminations, particularly those plans which have a reversion of assets. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This presentation is about the different forces in the public versus private sectors influencing the design of retirement income plans. How these differ in Canada versus the United States is also explored. Several aspects of the issues will be discussed including changing patterns in the work force, the impact of legislation and regulation and the role of social security. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 10, No. 2.

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: The general theme of discussion was pension plan funding and cost. The specific topics discussed included: impact of ERISA on corporate funding strategies, ethical considerations involved in deciding how to address inflation in pension plan costs, actuarial cash flow projections, actuarial role in evaluating alternative investment strategies, effect of ERISA's imposed Funding Standard Account, and discussion of the paper titled Introduction to Dynamics of Pension Funding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1976 Vol.2 No. 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 session discussion is about the current syllabus, the ideal syllabus and how do we get the current to the ideal. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists discuss current pension issues and ways in which the modeling process can be used to assist plan sponsors in addressing those issues. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.