Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the current and future challenges in the employee benefits area, is the actuarial profession adequately preparing its members to meet those challenges, and do our clients and publics view us as playing a vital role in employee benefits developments.

Description: 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Reinsurance Conference. This one day industry meeting hosting delegates from North America and beyond will be held in Toronto on April 13, 2016 under the theme "ReDefining Leadership".

Description: Panelists discuss recent developments in: Guaranteed Investment Contract [GIC] products, annuities for terminations of pension plans [terminal funding], settlement of obligations under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 88 [FAS 88], and separate accounts and portfolio insurance. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Reviews a new pamphlet on public accounting entitled Accounting for the Cost of Pension Plans, by the American Institute of CPAs which discusses Opinion No. 8 issues.

Description: This 1978 session discussed actuarial certifications and opinions rendered with emphasis on i. The who, what, how and by whom, and 2. Underlying methods, principles, practices and so forth and the disclosure thereof. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: Discusses plan design and funding issues – for small and large plans – arising from changes to the Section 415 limits, including: transition rules, adjustments to the $90,000 limit, combined-plan limits, top-heavy plans, and problem-solving. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Review of pamphlet entitled Retirement Income in the United States - A Case for the Composite System. It covers, among other items, the relationship of the three major sources of retirement income in the United States - individual savings, group retirement plans, and Social Security. The conclusions reached ar

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses whether actuaries working for plan sponsors are better than outside consultants, the professional responsibility that an in-house actuary must have, how the plan sponsor actuary provides analyses, and how the role of the plan sponsor member is evolving.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.