Description: This presentation is about the general considerations in planning compensation, the role of government in compensation and benefit planning, the relationship between immediate and deferred compensation and estimating the cost of the compensation program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1977, Vol.3, No. 1.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues surrounding retirement at age 70. What redesigns of group life, disability, and health plans is necessary as a result of raising the minimum mandatory retirement age to 70? What is the cost effect of these changes? How do you handle benefit design in states with no mandatory retirement age? How should pension and profit-sharing plans be changed to conform to the new law? From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: Experienced actuaries will discuss various ethical problems faced by retirement actuaries in everyday practice. Actuaries practicing in other consulting disciplines will find the broad concepts of dealing with these retirement-specific scenarios instructive in dealing with the ethical dilemmas that may occur in their business.

Description: Summary of the non-routine business transacted at meetings of the Executive Committee of the Society of Actuaries on September 18, 1979 and the Board of Governors on October 18-19, 1979

Description: This article summarizes the speech by Lloyd A. Woolridge on pension vs. profit sharing, insured vs. uninsured and individual vs. group in regards to retirement income plans.

Description: Discussion of the design and funding of non-traditional retirement plans. Review of appropriate uses and their advantages and disadvantages over traditional arrangements. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

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

Description: This paper surveys the actuarial techniques connected with salary scale mathematics for the valuation of defined benefit pension plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: We are pleased to have received, in response to our June editorial, What Say We?, the views of eight actuaries on the doubts about the private pension system that were expressed by Karen W. Arenson in the New York Times.

Description: A company considering the acquisition of, or merger with, another company or the divestiture of an operation may find that issues related to employee benefit programs have a profound effect on the viability ofthe transaction. This paper lists literature for the actuary to broaden his/her knowledge on the subject: both on mergers and acquisitions and on handling of employee benefits.