Description: This session provides attendees with an in-depth description of the process of terminating a defined benefit pension plan in the U.S. Discussion topics include required filings, selection of annuity provider and asset immunization prior to annuity purchase. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 7pd.

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of the crisis that started in 2008 on pension plans and pension policies in a variety of countries.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a stochastic population structure model based on the Leslie matrix, in which a Lee-Carter model framework is used to describe the future mortality and fertility changes.

Description: Read the ARCH 2013.2 editor's comments.

Description: A summary of learnings about multiemployer and public plans. Encouraging all retirement actuaries to become better educated on the various sectors of the retirement industry. Take time to meet actuaries from other sectors to learn about their experiences and challenges. We’ll all benefit when we have a better understanding of each other and focus on areas of common concern rather than our differences

Description: This paper is a review of H R 10 establishing tax deferred retirement plans - Keogh Plans- for the self employed.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Phildelphia and Kansas City Regional Meetings is a discussion about the use of segregated funds - separate accounts - for group annuities and individual annuities.

Description: This paper and subsequent Railroad Retirement Board remarriage tables are results from a culmination of remarriage studies from the period 1947-56. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'Life Agents' Retirement Plans under New York State Expense Limitations' by Peter M. Tompa. This discussion amplifies the paper with regards to comparison of funding retirement with single premium deferred annuities as opposed to the money purchase method and critiques the table used for valuation of benefits.

Description: This discussion examines rates for group annuities and new developments in the pension field with respect to the equity annuity and the cost-of-living annuity. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.