Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists, representatives from the Internal Revenue Service, ‘IRS,’ discuss their views on recent regulatory issues and pronouncements affecting pension plans, including proposed regulations and other guidance. Affected areas include nondiscrimination rules, benefits limits, and the change-in-cost method. There is a follow-up discussion in the session ‘Audience Dialogue with the IRS,’ held later in this meeting. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed tax compliance, the tax consequences of life insurance contract failure, the correction of failed contracts, and a 1992 update on the proposed deferred acquisition cost tax regulations.

Description: This session discussion is about SPWL: Is a modified endowment product salable, 7 pay: What sales applications are working best and pricing and administrative compliance issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2A.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss the potential impacts of recent and prospective legislation on flexible benefit programs, pricing and underwriting considerations in a flexible benefit environment, managed care and flexible benefits, and meeting the challenges that confront employers with flexible benefit programs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. In this session dealing with life insurance company federal income tax, the panelists discuss the impact of the so-called deferred acquisition cost [DAC] or proxy DAC tax created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act [OBRA] of 1990. Topics include stock versus mutual company reactions and response, the impact on mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance, and consolidation, product changes, small company problems and opportunities, new categories of specified insurance contracts, and the impact on Canadian companies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Discussion of the ways the volatility of the full funding limitation can be used as a consulting opportunity. Discussion of smoothing cash flow in the current regulatory environment and cash-flow forecasting in a volatile market.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session addresses potential changes in life insurance and annuity markets under alternative tax systems, that is, value-added tax 'VAT' or consumption taxes, and flat taxes and the impact of those changes.

Description: The panelists from this session at the June 2000 meeting of the Society of Actuaries in San Diego compare and contrast separate account products sold in the U.S. and Canada in both the qualified/registered retirement market and the nonqualified market.

Description: Presented at April 1985 April Meeting. This session discussed: Annuities, Non-participating life products, Participating life products, Variable products

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses whether the newly imposed defined benefit pension guidelines are actuarially sound, is the IRS properly equipped to administer the guidelines, what are the professional implications of not complying with the guidelines and how have differences been resolved.