Description: Historical case study for a country Germany pursuing pension reform to address demographic problems with a desire to encourage private retirement savings.

Description: This article discusses some of the ideas of pension finance, how to present such information, and how it was presented to the New York City Retirement Systems (NYCRS) in a way that made it available to other interested parties, including the public.

Description: The Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87. Employers’ Accounting for Pensions, became effective in 1987. This is an accounting/actuarial standard with significant income statement and balance sheet implications. This article discuses the results of a survey of selected affected companies regarding the impact of this standard.

Description: This article summarizes 2005 cost-of-living adjustments related to employee benefit plans, including: 1. IRS limits applicable to retirement plans, transportation fringe benefits, adoption assistance programs, medical savings accounts, health savings accounts, high-deductible health plans and long-term care plans, 2. PBGC guaranteed benefits, 3. federal income tax factors, 4. Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, 5. Medicare, and 6. covered compensation. From Pension Section News, January 2005, Issue No. 57.

Description: This article discusses adjusting IRC 415 limits for prior distributions. The proposed IRC 415 regulations issued last May contained guidance regarding how to adjust the benefit limits for prior distributions. This is commendable on the part of the IRS. How to adjust the IRC 415 limits for prior distributions has long been a source of confusion even for experienced pension actuaries. The best methodology is not immediately clear, and some methods have become common practice even if they can lead to inconsistent or unreasonable results. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: In this paper, the author presents the statutory and regulatory rationale for the Internal Revenue Service, ‘IRS,” position on integration. The author discusses the integration requirements under IRC Section 401a which must be met for a private pension plan to receive favorable tax treatment, including the prohibited discrimination requirement. From the 1982 Transactions Vol. 34.

Description: Discusses the recent changes to U.K. pensions legislation.

Description: In this article the author identifies and delimit 's the public's interest in defined benefit plan funding as a practical response to the chaotic deluge of of overlapping measurements and restrictions designed to regulate the funding of pensions plans in the US.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Discusses extension of the current favorable tax treatment of employer-sponsored pension plans to additional groups and to employee contributions.