Description: Results and discussion of a survey of FAS 87 Assumptions employed for non- USA defined benefit plans as of 12/31/1996

Description: What Makes the Yield Curve Move?

Description: Table featured in the Futures Research Project Provides Insight into Tomorrow's Economic Environment article in The Actuary. Please see the SOA Website research section for the full report on the Delphi Study of Economic Variables. These variables are 1. Change in CPI, 2. 10 Year T-Bill rates, 3. S&P500 rate of return and 4. Corporate Baa Bond Yields.

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: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: In this article, the authors describe the flaws in our current determination of the Consumer Price Index CPI and other economic indicators, and propose a series of refinements for improving the CPI calculations. The article emphasizes the importance of accuracy, given the significant influence on business and investment policies, psychological effect on the marketplace, as well as on consumer confidence, and the direct impact on Social Security increases and other benefit plans.

Description: The Committee on Economic Statistics of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries has recommended that the Institute sponsor an Economic Forecasting Board composed of actuaries and economists. Its role would be to develop formal projections of interest rates, inflation rates, productivity and wages. This article discusses the role of such a board, the purposes for the projections, and the potential roadblocks to accomplishing this.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Discusses demographic and economic change, changes in the market, and the direction of the legislative and legal environment for medical and long term care insurance.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting covers the post-election economy, interest rates, inflation and the deficit. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: Book review : Derek Bok's The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Compensated and How It Affects America. 'An intriguing, very well researched and documented, yet biased, book.'