Description: This discussion at an SOA 1968 Regional Meeting is about currency devaluation in other countries and the effects it has on life insurance, pension funds and company operations in the U.S.

Description: This panel discussion examines the future of private pension plans.

Description: At our Houston meeting PD l, Donald D. Hester, Professor of Economics at University of Wisconsin, outlined a novel investment system aimed at protecting purchasing power of the lender’s funds from inflation’s ravages. This article is summary of that presentation.

Description: This paper attempts to fill the gap in literature by empirically assessing the adequacy of the supply of bonds, quantifying the price impact, gauging the actuarial cost, and proposing appropriate government policy measures.

Description: The paper presents the history of mortgage guarantee insurance in the US, beginning briefly with the history of banks and banking regulation and ending with implications for the future.

Description: This is a group of reports on a future outlook study, mortality investigation on individual lives, and legislative matters of interest to actuaries.

Description: One component of this project is to model the impact of population structure on returns across asset classes. Previous research suggests that an overlapping generations (OLG) model is an appropriate modeling approach. This literature review has been prepared to provide background information regarding OLG models and the diversity and complexity that may be introduced into such models. This review has been prepared to provide a fuller discussion of some of the characteristics that may be especially relevant in our decision-making regarding the model we will build.

Description: This keynote address at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about how the changing international environment affects our economy.

Description: This was a panel discussion session on the economy. Thorough discussion of the unwise supply side economic theories which won't work to steer the economy to a more stable course in the 1980s relative to the 1970s.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of inflation on pension plans including legislative reaction, benefits retirement patterns and plan investments.