Description: Discussion of types and amounts of benefits continued on retired employees and their dependents, the cost of continuance of pensioner benefits under the group plan and methods of financing benefits during active employment.

Description: The paper will focus on two broad areas, integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets in post-retirement financial planning. Modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance.

Description: Introduction to the paper that documents the flaws of the current financial model.

Description: Part 1 proposes solutions to the first of three flaws of the current financial model to obtaining the fair value of the public sector employer’s pension benefit liability.

Description: This presentation session at the SOA's 1976 Houston Spring Meeting covered pension funding vehicles. The discussion included choice of vehicle Individual Policy, Deposit Administration, IPG, Self-Funding and Split-Funding, Investment Mix, Insurance Company versus Corporate Trustees and Outside Investment Advisers, Approaches to Plan Termination, and Small Plan considerations.

Description: Discusses the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the limits taking effect in 1989 relative to Social Security integration, final- and career-average and offset plans, and defined-contribution plans. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: The article outlines the pros and cons of providing lump sums in defined benefit plans both for the participant and the employer. Retirement assets need to be used effectively and actuaries can make a difference assisting employers, the public and policymakers to focus more on post employment risks.

Description: This articles focuses on real economics versus GAAP accounting and concludes that equities are an inferior investment for corporate pension funds.