Description: Panelists discuss recent changes in the design of retirement benefits programs. Topics include design trends in: · Public employee retirement systems · Multiemployer retirement programs · Executive compensation plans · Effect of mergers and acquisitions on retirement systems design From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1, Session 56IF

Description: This paper is a concept for U.S. pension reform.

Description: This panel discussion examines the valuation problems, funding methods, valuing ancillary benefits, and fluctuations in experience of small pension plans.

Description: Diverse Risks 2016 Call for Essays

Description: This paper explores a proposed compulsory savings program combined with transparent investment vehicles designed to promote competition based on expense levels, fund performance and customer service. At retirement 50% of the account is annuitized in Participating Variable Annuity (PVA) backed by TIPS. All investment experience, expenses, and pooled longevity experience is passed to annuitants through periodic benefit adjustments. Annuities are priced uniformly based on age at commencement.

Description: This is a panel discussion session covering the design of integrated retirement plans including examining the use offset tables, how consultants advise clients during periods of uncertainty, and how plans can be designed to accommodate any changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol.9, No. 2.

Description: This session covers Pension actuaries who are becoming more involved in the administration of defined-benefit pension plans. Along with this work comes special challenges that are different from those seen in more traditional pension actuarial work. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 93PD

Description: This is a presentation on the design of integrated retirement plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This paper is concerned with the implications of demographic and labor force changes for work and retirement. It discusses the role of gradual retirement in introducing flexibility into the range of choices between work and retirement. Part I explains the rationale for gradual retirement. Part II discusses some of the major barriers and possible solutions to gradual retirement. Part III contains some concluding remarks. From the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium, June 2002.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1980 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 29-30 in Minneapolis. The panelists discuss the nature of current criticisms of risk classification practices, implications of recent court decisions - Manhart and TIAA-CREF, and the potential adverse implications of eliminating some common classification variables. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 6, No. 2.